Blockchain and energy have never gone well together. When cryptocurrency became extremely popular  in December 2017 and the value of Bitcoin increased by incredible 2,000%, its carbon consumption skyrocketed. New York Times published information about analysts who calculated that obtaining a single Bitcoin now requires electrical power roughly equivalent to running an average household in […]

On our recent announcement of our new proxy – EOSADAMPROXY, we have brought attention to several factors that we take into consideration when voting as a proxy, with one of them being geographic distribution. Geographic distribution amongst the top 21 BPs is quite important as it can help EOS to realize its maximum potential as […]

Privacy might not be the first thing you are concerned with when working on your dApp but it should. Some simple principles you need to abide by NOW will save you a lot of trouble later on. That is, if you want your dApp to serve European Union citizens too. Citizens that together form the […]

A constitution is about distributing power and checks on that power in such a way that the community rules in a fair way. EOS Amsterdam is supporting the community. We have decades of experience in setting up governance structures onboard. This memo is meant to share that knowledge and help the community to vote and […]

Today EOS was governed. Today the EOS blockchain stood out from mere code as 21 Block Producers and all of the standby BPs made a decision: to overrule the code and freeze five accounts. Five people could prove they were spoofed and had received incorrect private keys. Five people that would have lost all EOS […]