A Tour of Blockstack’s Decentralized Computing Network With Aaron Blankstein

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We chatted with Aaron Blankstein, Core Engineer from Blockstack. Blockstack is a decentralized computing network, which makes it simple for developers to build blockchain-based applications. We learn about Blockstack’s incentive system, and what will be changing from v1 to v2. We discuss a few use cases of Blockstack, like the Blockstack Naming Service, or BNS. We also go over Blockstack’s smart contract language Clarity, and the broad tooling that will exist for developers working on the platform. We finish up learning about Aaaron’s fascination with augmented Reality and adversarial machine learning.

Topics:

Who Aaron is
How he describe Blockstack
Centralized versus decentralized application architecture
What is Blockstack's relationship with Bitcoin
How does consensus work in Blockstack
What is Blockstack naming system
On Clarity smart contracts language
Decentralized storage system called Gaia
On authentication and how it works
JavaScript tools
Radiks
Blockstack.js

Links:

Clarity - https://docs.blockstack.org/core/smart/overview.html
Blockstack forums - https://forum.blockstack.org
Blockstack - https://blockstack.org/
White Paper - https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf
Papers - Blockstack - https://blockstack.org/papers
Blackstack Docs - https://docs.blockstack.org/
Aaron Blankstein Website - https://aaron.blankstein.com/
App.co - https://app.co/
The Blackstack Javascript - https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/

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