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Published in Geek Culture

·May 13, 2021

Gulden Energy Consumption, an Honest Comparison to Bitcoin

The energy usage of cryptocurrencies is currently a hot topic on everyone's minds. The claims on both extremes are a bit silly, with blockchain extremists claiming people should ignore energy usage completely, while anti-blockchain extremists want to leverage this to ban all of cryptocurrency without exploring options like Gulden that…

Gulden

8 min read

Gulden Energy Consumption, an Honest Comparison to Bitcoin
Gulden Energy Consumption, an Honest Comparison to Bitcoin

Apr 2, 2020

An updated guide to witnessing

Back in 2018 when Gulden first released the PoW² system I publish a guide on how to use it. That guide remains accurate and relevant even still today, however with activation of Phase 4 due this weekend (4th April 2020) bring various new features its time for a new guide…

5 min read

An updated guide to witnessing
An updated guide to witnessing

Published in The Startup

·Nov 7, 2019

A post launch look at SIGMA

For those who don’t already know about Gulden; Gulden uses a unique consensus algorithm which we call PoW² that combines traditional “proof of work” mining with a secondary system of “witnesses” to greatly enhance security. To be a witness coin holders must lock substantial funds up for a lengthy period…

Gulden

15 min read

A post launch look at SIGMA performance
A post launch look at SIGMA performance

Aug 1, 2019

An introduction to SIGMA the new ‘CPU friendly’ algorithm for Gulden

We will soon be entering public testing of our new ‘CPU friendly’ PoW algorithm. …

Gulden

15 min read


Aug 8, 2018

PoW² explored — A post-launch look at some of the security implications

This is the first in a series of articles I’ll be doing that focus on various aspects of the latest gulden release and PoW² specifically; I’ll be releasing more articles over the coming weeks each focusing on different aspects of the system or from a different perspective — so…

Gulden

12 min read


Jul 18, 2018

Beginners guide to witnessing

Although the blockchain mechanics behind the PoW² system are rather complicated. The user facing process for creating a witness account is relatively simple. This guide attempts to show the basics, in future hopefully a more detailed (and prettier) guide will emerge. Basic account creation: Start by clicking on the ‘Add account’ button…

Blockchain

7 min read

Beginners guide to witnessing
Beginners guide to witnessing

Jul 18, 2018

Ten ways you can help Gulden right now without spending a cent

Rate and review us on the play store (Android) and app stores (Apple). These stores are an important source of new users for us, and one of the largest factors that influences whether users install our apps or not. It is an inevitable part of the industry we are…

Open Source

4 min read


Jan 25, 2018

Cape town water crises — could Palmiet save us from day zero?

Cape town water crises — could Palmiet save us from day zero? Disclaimer I write this article based on the contents of a single blog post, I wish I were writing it based on more information but all my attempts to acquire more information have been ignored or shut down so…

Water

4 min read

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