MIT 6.824: Lecture 20 - Blockstack

1 · Timi Adeniran · Dec. 23, 2020, 12:21 p.m.
In the last post of this lecture series, we are looking at Blockstack. Blockstack is a network for building decentralized applications based on blockchain. I find the idea of decentralized applications appealing because of its promise to give users more ownership and control of their data. Blockstack is also interesting as it's a non-cryptocurrency use of blockchain, which I covered in the previous post. I'll start this post with an overview of how a decentralized application might work, before ...