Digital Currency

By Othman Darwish The age of the online world began its journey with the invention of the Internet. The Internet has grown and evolved into its present form because people find immense value in using it. The emergence of Blockchain technology years ago and its current steady progress would revolutionize the Internet as we know it today. This article is arguing how the decentralized nature of Blockchain would radically changing the today's Internet . Internet starts with a prototype, done back in late of the 1960s by Advanced Research Projects Agency Network or ARPANET, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. ARPANET allows multiple computers to communicates on a single network. The technology continues its growth and developments in the 1970s by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, and they developed the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol-TCP/IP, a communications protocol that standardized the way the data exchanged between multiple networks. The i

By Othman Darwish BaaS or what is known as Blockchain-as-a-Service- is a cloud-based solution, that developed by companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM which dominating the industry of cloud computing.  The model of BaaS provider is promoting and offering businesses to select between a diversity of blockchain platforms, and tackle the complexity of configuring, operating and maintaining the entire blockchain infrastructure. In this blog will opposing the rationality of adopting such a deployment model, and debating some fundamental and conflicting aspects of blockchain technology and BaaS deployment model.         Microsoft and its dominant cloud platform Azure was the first software vendor to offer BaaS. Azure provides a variety of blockchain platforms, such as HyperLedger Fabric, Ethereum, Corda, SysCoin and many more. Such services that provide pre-built templates to build blockchain networks dragged businesses to go with BaaS proposal, to decrease their developme