05 Jul 2022
Evgeni Pandurski
Imagine this: Paul is an owner of a restaurant. The business is good.
Many people love Paul’s restaurant. Unfortunately, the old, but very
expensive ventilation system has stopped working, and needs to be
replaced. Paul applies for a bank loan. They make him sign a bunch of
documents with lots of fine-print. Paul has no choice but to trust
them. From now on, Paul and the bank are “partners”.
Sounds familiar?
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03 Jul 2022
Evgeni Pandurski
Allowing everybody to create and issue their own currency is a
terrible idea, right? Wouldn't this turn into a complete mess?
Well, yes, and no!
This is where currency pegging comes in:
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01 Jul 2022
Evgeni Pandurski
After months of hard work on the Currency Issuer
UI, and the Currency
Holder UI, I am
happy to show something that works reasonably well (fingers crossed).
There are two apps: My currency
and My wallet. The fist app
allows you to create your own currency. The second app allows you to
use other peoples’ currencies, including your own one. These are
progressive web-apps (PWA), which can be installed and can work
offline.
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29 Jun 2022
Evgeni Pandurski
Digital currencies are all around us. Nowadays, it is relatively easy
to become a holder of a digital currency, but it is not at all easy to
become an issuer of a digital currency. Swaptacular tries to make
creating and issuing new digital currencies possible for everyone. The
Swaptacular project consists of three things:
- The network architecture
- A set of interoperability protocols
- Reference implementations for the interoperability protocols
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