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A Germany-based blockchain consultation and development company

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Sep 4, 2021, 7:05 AM UTC

DevOps: Dealing with local secrets, environment variables and GPG

This article shows how we make use of environment variables and GPG to easily switch between credentials for various deployments. In our particular case, we have various Hashicorp clusters (nomad, co…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Sep 4, 2021, 6:58 AM UTC

How to launch a DAC

A decentralized autonomous company, as the name implies, should mimic the behavior of a company in most (if not all) regards. This implies that a blockchain that implements a DAC comes with a few com…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Dec 9, 2020, 12:08 PM UTC

If I was asked to do a "fair launch"

Let's assume for a moment one of my clients approached me and asked for a "fair blockchain launch", how would I do that? What needs to be considered? Where are the technical, legal, social challenges…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Dec 9, 2020, 11:51 AM UTC

A simple reason against Turing-complete scripting in Smart Contracting Platforms

In this short but concise article, I would like to give food for thought on smart contracting platforms that come with a Turing-complete scripting language. It all breaks down to one thing: trust. ##…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Sep 15, 2020, 12:08 PM UTC

How to use semversioner in your release flow

Recently, we've marked a few of our branches in a project as protected which results in local changes to the branch not being push-able to the remote branch. This also means that when you are using g…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Sep 10, 2020, 7:26 AM UTC

Atomic Swaps vs. Sidechain - Don't get fooled

In recent months, we have witnesses some confusion in the crypto currency community about what atomic swaps can offer and why they are not necessarily in-line with common understandings of a sidechai…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Aug 27, 2020, 2:24 PM UTC

How to deal with fees on a blockchain

Apparently, everyone expects fees on the blockchain in order to prevent spamming or even for sake of some economical aspect of the chain. If it wasn't for the transaction fees, the blockchain could b…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Aug 27, 2020, 7:40 AM UTC

What are Smart Contracts and why they have nothing to do with Turing Completeness and Scriptability

Recently, I had a great conversation with Nathan Hourt, a brilliant backend developer that I love working with. We are on the same wave length. So it shouldn't surprise you that we came to similar co…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Aug 26, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

Blockchains and the need for a token

Whenever people start talking about blockchain they often imply crypto currencies. However, a blockchain itself doesn't require any token and still be a blockchain. The mere requirement for being pub…

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ChainSquad GmbH
@chainsquad Aug 26, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

ChainSquad Articles - The beginning

Today, after a long process of decision making, I came to the conclusion that it would be beneficial to start some sort of "blog" where I can aggregate technical thoughts, discoveries etc. You can fi…

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