Quote from: g1itch on January 25, 2018, 07:21:36 PM

Quote from: theblockpoolbeard on January 25, 2018, 11:04:04 AM

Quote from: g1itch on January 25, 2018, 09:54:52 AM

Quote from: theblockpoolbeard on January 23, 2018, 07:13:11 PM

Hey,

It isn't a partnership. We are one and the same company.

The reason for cross posting the weekly update is the development teams are the same and the progress feeds both coins.

So ADC is in postgres already or still in blockchain? If this repo https://github.com/aurovine/AudioCoin is not actual, how can I migrate old ADC coins to BPL? I've not seen any swap announcement. Do you have some guide for that?

Hi there,

I am confused by your confusion about postgres and blockchain.

Postgres is just used locally to store the chain. It is not a replacement for the blockchain?

ADC is still separate from BPL. There are plans but nothing set in stone yet. As and when we do a coin swap we will be providing lots of information and spreading the word far and wide.

Thanks for your question

Thank you for clarification. That sounds reassuring.
As for confusion... I doubt every time when I see postgres or some other RDBMS instead of leveldb (lmdb or rocksdb) because there are many fake cryptocurrencies still around, like stellar, ripple, NEM or NXT and RDBMS is often used there.

Hi g1itch,

BPL uses postgres to store the blockchain information. Leveldb is very stringent and doesn't allow for any improvements without breaking the entire chain. Postgres in the case of BPL allows for MUCH easier updating and if we do need to make a change to the postgres DB itself, we can easily port over the old information into a new DB without breaking the chain at all. One of the many reasons we are moving ADC to a BPL Sidechain.

However I do disagree with NXT not being a blockchain. It uses a different method to store the DB, the chain itself is still pretty much the same.
I do agree with you that STR and XRP aren't blockchains. But not for the same reasons. They store the chain like any other crypto, however there is no decentralisation at all. STR is much better than XRP in terms of how centralized it is, but the fact that the developers can create new STR on a whim is a major problem. Luckily they have only done this once to my knowledge and that was an airdrop to the community.

USDT however is not a blockchain, there is no decentralization at all, developers are able to create tokens when they want to, and they often do and they don't do airdrops, all of that money goes into the pockets of the devs to pump BTC up.