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Case Study: Alternate Blockchains
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Summary
Jeremy Rand talks about Namecoin and Monero, the advantages to alternate blockchains, and risks of using chains that are not as secured or are merge mined.
Bio
Jeremy Rand is the Lead Application Engineer of Namecoin, a naming system (currently used for domain names and identities) that backs authenticity of records using a blockchain (Namecoin was the first project forked from Bitcoin). He has many roles at Namecoin, but spends much of his time working on applications that enhance online privacy, such as TLS and Tor integration.
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Jun 27, 2017