Stacks.BTC
Stacks -Formerly Known as Blockstack- is a new decentralized internet where users own their data and apps run locally. Take back control over your digital life. A browser portal is all you need to get started.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Ad-free
- Decentralized
- Blockchain
- Crypto Wallet
- Cryptocurrency support
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- bitcoin-l2
- Bitcoin
- web-app-builder
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What is Stacks.BTC?
Stacks and the Purpose of Blockchain Technology
When evaluating new blockchain technologies, it's important to keep the original intent and purpose of them intact. If we go back to Bitcoin, it was originally designed to be:
Decentralized
Immutable
Secure
You've likely heard of the blockchain trilemma, the problem of trying to balance the decentralization, scalability, and security of a blockchain network.
Stacks takes the approach of solving this trilemma by separating out chains into layers.
So at the bottom, you have the foundational layer: Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is the most decentralized, most secure, and most immutable blockchain network. However, that comes with a few tradeoffs.
Bitcoin is very slow compared to other networks. Bitcoin only has a new block written once every 10 minutes or so, making its throughput negligible compared to networks designed for speed like Solana.
Bitcoin is also "boring". Ethereum came along after Bitcoin and sought to do the same thing for software that Bitcoin did for money. Ethereum's goal is to be a decentralized supercomputer of sorts, serving as a global compute environment for smart contracts (code that is written to a blockchain).
Bitcoin is also not scalable. Because every new block must propagate to every node on the network, Bitcoin can only run as fast as the slowest node in the network. Now we are seeing the rise of modular blockchain networks like Cosmos that are designed to make it easy for people to spin up their own blockchain networks.
While most new blockchain protocols popping up these days see these properties as negatives and seek to eliminate them, the Stacks community sees things differently.
Comments and Reviews
"A new internet"? A "future game-changer"? You mean like how pushing web3 and blockchain apps are funded by the government, and will one day replace the free and open internet, that we enjoy today? Tell me more about how i can willingly participate in the elimination of online freedom and privacy! You say decentralized, i say honeypot. Programmable money is the beginning of total tyranny, don't get too sticky in that there honey!
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