The Saito team has been a bit quiet recently. This is because of a combination of Christmas, New Years, Spring Festival and Corona Virus. With Beijing, like most major Chinese cities, in lockdown, international missions recommending against non-essential presence in…
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This month saw our Eames TESTNET create its 21,601st block. The original genesis block was then dropped from the chain before creating the next block. To be valid, the 21,602nd block had to include the ‘rebroadcastable’ transactions from the original…
Stanford feels like the promised land to anyone used to Chinese academia. The campus opens with a palm-lined drive that leads to manicured lawns and stately sandstone buildings. You can breathe the air. There are Rodin sculptures scattered through campus.…
Over the New Year, a test Saito node we call Marathon created its millionth block. In doing so over 10 million transactions were validated and bundled into blocks at a rate of about 1 block every 5 seconds with an…
Node Worthy 28: Blockchain in 2019 (live panel discussion) It was a pleasure to be invited to talk on the last Technode Tech in China panel for the year. You can listen to the panel discussion on the Technode Node…
We are very pleased to have been invited by the Tsinghua International Blockchain Association to attend and present at their December 5 meeting. This has been an exciting few weeks for Team Saito as some of our key ideas have…
This post is inspired by a tweet whose author was asking, in English as a second language, about the “docs” needed to register with a crypto exchange. Most of the replies he’d received were general answers about KYC (know your…
Last week was Berlin blockchain week. I attended some great events including the Zero Knowledge Summit and Dezentral put together by 1kx. Notes on the Berlin Blockchain Community My immediate impressions of the Berlin Blockchain Community it is tech first, then down to business, speculation last…
Saito is a new kind of blockchain. One with genuine solutions to on-chain scaling. It achieves this by taking a first principles approach, looking to the economics and logistics of building a scaleable blockchain, before getting carried away with clever…