One Chain to Rule Them All?

Hacker Noon’s foundation is its’ contributors. The people building the tech industry are the ones telling the story of the tech industry. That’s what we publish. It’s a source of intel. It’s real-world applications of frameworks. It’s all kinds of crazy. It’s raining views. It’s cheesy. It’s pride. It’s awesome work. It’s big thanks to great contributors.

This collaboration — Blockchain Platforms: One Chain to rule them all? — from Lior M. Messika & Noam Levenson is our tech excerpt of the week:

“These blockchains will be the iPhones of our decentralised world — simple to use, inexpensive, and secure. And we are only at the beginning. Every month brings more advanced features, more powerful developments, more streamlined services. For now, whether or not the world is ready for blockchain, it’s clear that our platforms certainly aren’t. But with third generation blockchains in development, and the inevitable fourth, fifth, sixth generations on the horizon, that won’t remain true for long.”

Read more about Blockchain, or contribute a story to Hacker Noon, or better yet, READ OUR TOP 22 TECH STORIES THIS WEEK!

Artificial Intelligence Adoption

AI Assistants and the last mile problem by Praveen

Crypto Columns

Chaos vs. Order — The Cryptocurrency Dilemma by William Belk

Whale tactics.. by Olivier de Jong

Dev Work

AWS Lambda — should you have few monolithic functions or many single-purposed functions? by Yan Cui

Building Google’s Art and Culture Portrait Matcher by Grant Holtes

Good UX Manager/Bad UX Manager by Peter Cho

How not to build a yet another mediocre internal tool… by Segah@Caura

Introduction to Recommender System. Part 1 (Collaborative Filtering, Singular Value Decomposition) by 黃功詳 Steeve Huang

Free Thinking

Craftsmanship — The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset by Daniel Tawfik

How to biohack your intelligence — with everything from sex to modafinil to MDMA by Serge Faguet

Technology and the Mind: An Existential Psychotherapist’s Thoughts on the Meaning of Tech by Stephen Cognetta

Founders Share

A highly biased and anecdotal guide to founding a successful* startup by Sarah Ball

Pop Comparisons

Does Not Liking ‘Rick and Morty’ Mean I’m Stupid? by Stella J. McKenna

IOTA: The Currency of Skynet by Daniel Barta

Scaling Crypto Adoption

These Smart Banknotes Could Bring Crypto To The Masses by Micha Benoliel

Tech Adoption

How To Train Your Robot — AI For Everyone by Burke H✪lland

Tech Opinions

We Need Fewer Product Managers by John Cutler

What Silicon Valley Can Learn from Solopreneurs and Digital Nomads by Matt Ward

Tech Transitions

From Marketing to Product Management by Amy Sun

VC Opinions

A VC’s take on evaluating cryptocurrencies by Justine and Olivia Moore

For founders and investors, it’s time for real talk about money by Roy Bahat

Youth Perspective

My First Experience Attending a Hackathon Alone at Riot Games by Emily Yu

Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted.

Kind Regards

David Smooke, AMI

P.S. CONTRIBUTE A STORY TO HACKERNOON.