What you need to know about NFT, Blockchain and Crypto in general. Some well-intentioned advice for your next crypto party in 2022 (thank me later): if you want to communicate with crypto people, you need to internalize the following. (if you want to level up: web3 explain and what it…

These weeks, people in our space talk a lot about a so-called “KZG ceremony”, sometimes also called a “Trusted Setup". This ceremony can be explained as an initial setup enabling Ethereum to scale using Proto-Danksharding. Sharding is a method of partitioning data across multiple databases to improve the efficiency of…

The term “pre-compiles” is currently making the rounds in the crypto space, cropping up in conversations at conferences, on social media platforms such as Twitter Spaces, Discord, and Reddit posts. In the realm of SmartContracts and the Ethereum Virtual Machine, this term is gaining traction, and it’s not just limited…

I always shudder when people talk about a “decentralized social network” when they want to explain Mastodon. TL;DR: Please stop to call Mastodon a Decentralized Social Network. It is not. Mastodon is not decentralized at all from my point of view. Every node/server is completely centralized! If the node provider…

Let’s challenge #ChatGPT in German 🔥🔥🔥 Fazit: es ist viel besser, als ich dachte! Als ich gestern meinen Eltern die neue Revolution am ChatBot-Markt vorführen wollte, waren wir mit den erst einfachen Fragen so begeistert ob ihrer Qualität, so dass ich richtig Lust bekam, ChatGPT in eine Situation zu manövrieren…

Today, Aptos had its launch. And I was asking myself: Why should one create a new Layer 1 chain in 2022? Many articles have been written about this. But no one talks about the possible reason and its potential impact. I mean this really seriously. There is no need to…

At the moment we see a battle between Layer 2 chains and multi-chain ecosystems like Cosmos. I’d like to explain: Layer 2 is the term of separate blockchains (or “side chains”) which are running next to Ethereum to bring in more scalabolity and cheaper transaction costs without losing the security…

Your should never use centralized Storage like AWS for NFTs. Why? NFTs are supposed to live forever, at least as long as Ethereum nodes are running. We can't say the same about AWS. Also, once your creditcard is not paying any more your AWS space, any NFT you have already sold would get invalid.

Did you know that OpenSea allows us to inject any custom code into their StoreFront via MetaData returned by a SmartContract, virtually performing an XSS attack, even without requiring advanced XSS techniques? Crypto-Twitter was running wild today when someone told us that OpenSea allows the embedding of custom JavaScript: …