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We chatted with Aaron Blankstein, Core Engineer from Blockstack. Blockstack is a decentralized computing network, which makes it simple for developers to build blockchain-based applications. We learn about Blockstack\\u2019s incentive system, and what will be changing from v1 to v2. We discuss a few use cases of Blockstack, like the Blockstack Naming Service, or BNS. We also go over Blockstack\\u2019s smart contract language Clarity, and the broad tooling that will exist for developers working on the platform. We finish up learning about Aaaron\\u2019s fascination with augmented Reality and adversarial machine learning.

Topics:

• Who Aaron is
• How he describe Blockstack
• Centralized versus decentralized application architecture
• What is Blockstack\'s relationship with Bitcoin
• How does consensus work in Blockstack
• What is Blockstack naming system
• On Clarity smart contracts language
• Decentralized storage system called Gaia
• On authentication and how it works
• JavaScript tools
• Radiks
• Blockstack.js

Links:

• Clarity - https://docs.blockstack.org/core/smart/overview.html
• Blockstack forums - https://forum.blockstack.org
• Blockstack - https://blockstack.org/
• White Paper - https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf
• Papers - Blockstack - https://blockstack.org/papers
• Blackstack Docs - https://docs.blockstack.org/
• Aaron Blankstein Website - https://aaron.blankstein.com/
• App.co - https://app.co/
• The Blackstack Javascript - https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/