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Kevin LeffewProject Heisenberg - Kevin Leffew - Medium
Originally written for 2018 Georgetown Hackathon, which we placed 2nd at, here: https://medium.com/@kleffew/project-heisenberg-cacd0c329cf7 * Tokenizing prescriptions on the blockchain***Project Heisenberg **is a decentralized identity management and pharmaceutical ERP system built atop a permissioned Ethereum consortium network. This project implements a non-fungible token standard to completely eliminate the risk and *imlicit *cost associated with pharmaceutical script fraud. By creating a ...
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Sr. Bizops; GTM B2B Team @ Replit Formerly founder Europa Labs, B2B Storj.io, Microsoft
Kevin LeffewStable Diffusion and Web3
Stable Diffusion and Web3: Transforming image2image data with the decentralized cloudArtificial intelligence text-to-image tools like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Dalle2 are rapidly unlocking new possibilities for memes, marketing, and predictive learning for advertising. Stable Diffusion was officially released into beta on August 22 as an open-source alternative to Dalle-2. Because it’s training parameters are open-source, anyone can access and play around with the weights used to trai...
Kevin LeffewProject Heisenberg - Kevin Leffew - Medium
Originally written for 2018 Georgetown Hackathon, which we placed 2nd at, here: https://medium.com/@kleffew/project-heisenberg-cacd0c329cf7 * Tokenizing prescriptions on the blockchain***Project Heisenberg **is a decentralized identity management and pharmaceutical ERP system built atop a permissioned Ethereum consortium network. This project implements a non-fungible token standard to completely eliminate the risk and *imlicit *cost associated with pharmaceutical script fraud. By creating a ...
Kevin LeffewDesigner Jewelry, On-chain
Bringing tokenized jewelry redeemables to the world of NFTs:Digital Twin is hosting the first of its kind Trunk Show in Miami, FL featuring some of the most notable jewelry designers around the world - from Miami to Hong Kong, and Ukraine. Each designer—Sazingg, L’Dezen and POCHE—will showcase their asset-backed NFT collections and bring their fine-jewelry designs on-chain to ethereum. The goal of this Trunk Show is to blend the digital and physical experience of purchasing fine jewelry. The ...
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Influenced largely around the potential of DeFi on bitcoin, today, I decided to run a STX node, connect it to the public testnet network., and document my thoughts around the setup process.
I followed the commands at https://docs.blockstack.org/stacks-blockchain/running-testnet-node, and set up a local node on my Macbook Pro, using a docker container. This guide will help you accomplish the following:
Download and install the node software
Run the node
Mine Stacks token
The node can easily be run in a containerized environment, pulling from the blockstack/stacks-blockchain repo, by entering the following Docker run command:
docker run -d \
--name stacks_follower \
--rm \
-e RUST_BACKTRACE="full" \
-e BLOCKSTACK_DEBUG="1" \
-p 20443:20443 \
-p 20444:20444 \
blockstack/stacks-blockchain:latest \
/bin/stacks-node krypton
Once you setup a testnet node, you can easily start mining!
Mining STX
With BTC the more electricity running through it, the more secure it is. With STX, the more BTC transferred through it (via Proof of Transfer “PoX”) the more secure it is.
To get started mining with my testnet node, I followed the instructions here: https://docs.blockstack.org/mining. Here’s what you need to do:
Generate a keychain
Send the BTC address some faucet testnet BTC
Run the node via standard configuration
Easily get faucet BTC via a curl command
Running the Argon command starts a node that will join and stream blocks from the public argon testnet, powered by Blockstack (Proof of Burn).
Running the Krypton start a node that will join and stream blocks from the public krypton testnet, powered by Blockstack via (Proof of Transfer).
Running the start command lets you start a node with a custom config. After running my custom config for PoX, a generated a public node, who’s ID is
I traded some testnet BTC for STX via PoX. Overall, the process to setup a blockstack testnet node is relatively straightforward and easy.
Note that mining STX is an almost activity similar to trading in that it deals with transferring BTC in exchange for STX, where they may even arbitrage it as they earn it. Traders may like it for that reason, because it doesn’t require special hardware.
Influenced largely around the potential of DeFi on bitcoin, today, I decided to run a STX node, connect it to the public testnet network., and document my thoughts around the setup process.
I followed the commands at https://docs.blockstack.org/stacks-blockchain/running-testnet-node, and set up a local node on my Macbook Pro, using a docker container. This guide will help you accomplish the following:
Download and install the node software
Run the node
Mine Stacks token
The node can easily be run in a containerized environment, pulling from the blockstack/stacks-blockchain repo, by entering the following Docker run command:
docker run -d \
--name stacks_follower \
--rm \
-e RUST_BACKTRACE="full" \
-e BLOCKSTACK_DEBUG="1" \
-p 20443:20443 \
-p 20444:20444 \
blockstack/stacks-blockchain:latest \
/bin/stacks-node krypton
Once you setup a testnet node, you can easily start mining!
Mining STX
With BTC the more electricity running through it, the more secure it is. With STX, the more BTC transferred through it (via Proof of Transfer “PoX”) the more secure it is.
To get started mining with my testnet node, I followed the instructions here: https://docs.blockstack.org/mining. Here’s what you need to do:
Generate a keychain
Send the BTC address some faucet testnet BTC
Run the node via standard configuration
Easily get faucet BTC via a curl command
Running the Argon command starts a node that will join and stream blocks from the public argon testnet, powered by Blockstack (Proof of Burn).
Running the Krypton start a node that will join and stream blocks from the public krypton testnet, powered by Blockstack via (Proof of Transfer).
Running the start command lets you start a node with a custom config. After running my custom config for PoX, a generated a public node, who’s ID is
I traded some testnet BTC for STX via PoX. Overall, the process to setup a blockstack testnet node is relatively straightforward and easy.
Note that mining STX is an almost activity similar to trading in that it deals with transferring BTC in exchange for STX, where they may even arbitrage it as they earn it. Traders may like it for that reason, because it doesn’t require special hardware.
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