Media Mentions
Bitcoin Daily: Austria Backs Pandemic-Related Blockchain Initiative; Ride-Hailing App Ryde Will Enable Bitcoin Payments
PYMNTS.com: The government of Austria is backing the creation of a pandemic-related mobile application based on the blockchain, CoinDesk reported. Its Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs provided a grant of $67,600 to the QualiSig program that taps into portions of the country’s digital identity infrastructure to make prototypes involving wellness data, fraud prevention and fake news. One prototype lets people verify coronavirus testers. Another prototype brings together signed coronavirus test results with the digital citizenship of an individual to let them go to a musical performance or travel by plane, while an additional prototype seeks to stop fake news. The prototypes harness the Ardor blockchain. It was reported that they will not be ready to go into a live environment for eight months at a minimum.
June 17, 2020
Austrian Government Funds Development of Blockchain-Based COVID-19 App
Coindesk: The Austrian government is taking a considered approach to COVID-19 tech solutions after an initial rush to get some kind of contact tracing app out the door. The nation’s second wave of projects now includes blockchain. Announced Wednesday, the country’s Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs awarded a €60,000 ($67,600) grant to a project called QualiSig, which uses elements of Austria’s digital identity system to create three COVID-related prototypes around fraud prevention, fake news and health data. The QualiSig prototypes use the Ardor blockchain built by Swiss firm Jelurida and its Ignis tokenizing system.
June 17, 2020
Who’s Afraid of Ethereum? The Top 12 Smart Contract Platforms
Cryptobriefing: One-liner: “Parent-and-child chain” architecture with lightweight smart contract capabilities and no blockchain bloat. Ardor is operated by Jelurida and has its roots in the Nxt blockchain, which was one of the first PoS networks and has been running since 2013. Ardor was created by the same team to overcome the adoption challenges of traditional linear blockchain architecture. These include the use of a single token, a lack of customization capability, and blockchain bloating as a result of processing and storing every single transaction in the same way. Ardor aims to overcome this with an architecture that comprises the main parent chain and child chains. Each child chain is entirely customizable according to user requirements and can use its own token. Ardor also makes use of stateless, lightweight smart contracts programmed in Java.
June 7, 2020
Wendy O (Watch CoinHQ.tv)
Wendy O: So I definitely remember #Peercoin was the first PoS, but it was hybrid PoW. I'm also pretty sure #NXT was the first Pure PoS, not $ALGO. Can someone clarify?
June 4, 2020
Ivan on Tech
Ivan on tech: As I recall #Nxt was indeed the first pure #PoS, does anyone remember otherwise?
June 4, 2020
Algorand Accused of Stealing NXT’s Claim to Be the First Pure PoS Blockchain
Ihodl: A war of words has erupted over Algorand’s repeated claims to be the world’s first pure Proof of Stake blockchain. As long-time industry observers know, that assertion isn’t remotely true, since enterprise blockchain Algorand only launched in 2017 and PoS has been around a lot longer than that. The first blockchain to experiment with Proof of Stake was Peercoin, which debuted a hybrid PoW/PoS chain. However, the accolade for first pure PoS chain, which Algorand has been so keen to claim, goes to NXT. The Proof of Stake chain launched in 2013 – four years before Algorand shuddered into life. It’s a fact that Jelurida co-founder and NXT core developer Lior Yaffe has been at pains to point out.
June 4, 2020
