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I’m passionate about researching new tech/crypto projects as well as travel and would like to share with you some of my views and findings. Please have a look through a variety of articles covering networking, crypto, infrastructure design, travel and much more…

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Do Solutions Exist?

by Scott Owen | Nov 30, 2020 | Business

First published on VOICE in November 2020 -> Check it out here. If you work in technology, you'll have undoubtedly struck a situation which caused you to stop, take a breath and think... At that moment, you were concentrating on a problem, and the...

Building Apps on EOSIO

by Scott Owen | Nov 20, 2020 | Business, Crypto, Infrastructure Design

First published on VOICE in November 2020 -> Check it out here. Blockchain technology is rethinking modern application architecture and design, ploughing ahead by confronting conventional wisdom and reimaging applications on so many levels. ...

The Power Of Software

by Scott Owen | Nov 11, 2020 | Business, Crypto

First published on VOICE in November 2020 -> Check it out here. In August 2011, Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Andreessen-Horowitz, stated: "Software is eating the world." The now infamous quote verbalised how technology companies were...

Enterprise Blockchain Adoption, 2021?

by Scott Owen | Nov 4, 2020 | Business, Crypto

First published on VOICE in November 2020 -> Check it out here. Anyone who has worked in Enterprise would undoubtedly have heard of or used the technology analyst firm Gartner. Firms like Gartner are famous for their research, models and IT...

EOS Resource Model Feedback – #1

by Scott Owen | Oct 26, 2020 | Crypto

First published on VOICE in October 2020 -> Check it out here. History Over the last few weeks, the Writer and EOSphere teams have been collecting feedback relating to the proposed EOS resource model. Block.one (B1) introduced the code in...

EOSIO – Developments Series – #2

by Scott Owen | Oct 26, 2020 | Crypto

First published on VOICE in October 2020 -> Check it out here. While we can't yet dive inside the super-secret block.one GitHub repositories, we can view the ongoing public development and envisage future capabilities and Use cases. In this...

EOSIO – Developments Series – #1

by Scott Owen | Oct 26, 2020 | Crypto

First published on VOICE in September 2020 -> check it out here. Block.one has made it crystal clear the company is working on several exciting behind the scenes developments, much of which is strictly confidential and isn't ready for prime time...

Rethinking Enterprise Apps

by Scott Owen | Oct 26, 2020 | Crypto

First published on VOICE on Sep 02 - Check it out here. The Problem IT departments often run 100s, if not 1000s of applications. The range of products deployed is vast and complex. Enterprise apps get accumulated over the years, with business...

EOSIO HTTPS Configuration

by Scott Owen | Apr 1, 2020 | Crypto

The Problem By default, when deploying an EOSIO node, the eosio::http_plugin for nodeos binds insecurely to a port of your choosing. The following is an extract from the config.ini running on a newly deployed host. FYI, there are multiple ways to...

EOSIO, The Basics

by Scott Owen | Mar 15, 2020 | Crypto

About eosio Since EOSDawn3 and 4, I've been a massive fan of the eosio software from block.one. For those not familiar with eosio, it's open-source blockchain software which underpins networks...

Using eosio.wrap (sudo) contract to fix account permissions on eosio blockchains

by Scott Owen | Mar 13, 2020 | Crypto

What is eosio.wrap? Eosio.wrap is an eosio system contract created by block.one. The contract enables an eosio chain administrator to update specifics of another account, e.g. permissions, without requiring the accounts private key. Think of it as...

Rethinking Enterprise Apps

by Scott Owen | Feb 2, 2020 | Crypto

Enterprise IT departments often run 100s, if not 1000s of applications. The scope of products deployed is vast and complex. Enterprise software is accumulated over many years and is typically a combination of in-house developed, third party or...