What is Text-to-Image AI? Text-to-image AI is a type of technology that uses natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to generate images based on text input. This technology can be useful for a small business in a number of ways. For example, a small business owner could use text-to-image AI to automatically generate product…

Come with me and you’ll see a world of pure imagination — Willy Wonka Intro In the near future you will be looking to hire a new type of thought worker(or potentially see this skill as often as ‘proficient at excel’ on resumes). This up and coming talent is known as “prompt engineering” and it is time…

Think of the internet 20 years from today. Tens of billions of people, trillions of IoT gadgets, millions of data centers; all using currently unimaginable connected devices, all wanting to access data from around the world instantly. What do you think that will mean for the system holding all of this together in the background,…

I have dreamt of apocalypse many times, but never did I imagine one during which I would have to have a day job and attend endless online meetings. Since the lockdowns, video calls have become my day to day life. They consume countless hours a week and are the primary use of my computer now.…

Gratitude Firstly, I have thoroughly enjoyed the 4+ years of being a part of the ETC community, seeing it grow, take form, and riding the roller-coaster with my internet friends and acquaintances. We were pioneers and have unquestionably left a positive mark on the blockchain industry and open source software. My time we here has…

There is a new startup in the Ethereum Classic space that has caused a bit of a stir with their initial actions and I would like to take a few minutes to comment on them. For brevity, there is no distinction made between etclabs, the “startup incubator” and DFG, the desperate speculator group. Some may…

Modern blockchain technology relies on different principals than previous generations of blockchains, known as UTXO or generation 1.0, and allows for more robust transaction execution. An introductory stateful blockchain can be expressed as a game of correspondence chess. The rules of chess are understood by all participants in the network and, as such, it is…

The Zcash value proposition is in private transactions, however, private transactions are not the default and many users simply do not know how to initially create shielded (private) transactions, aka a “t” => “z”. In simple terms, it is important to have a large pool of shielded transactions provides for a larger anonymity set for…