UPDATE: April 23, 2020 The Stacks 2.0 Testnet is Live It appears that Blockstack has launched the Stacks testnet today – To get started right away, visit blockstack.org/testnet.   Go try it out and get ready for the launch of the mainnet later this Summer. Go to the testnet and try […]

Blockstack: Community Townhall – Testnet for Stacks 2.0

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM – and DECS: the decentralized encrypted code snippets dApp built for use on Blockstack. With DECS, the ability to organize secure and shareable code snippets for developers is now on the decentralized web space via Blockstack. With DECS, the developer now has the ability to […]

DECS: the decentralized encrypted code snippets dApp built for use ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM – and dPage: the webpage builder dApp built for use on Blockstack.  With dPage, the ability to create simple  webpages on Blockstack and store the date with Blockstack’s Gaia architecture is live. With dPage, the ability to create simple public webpages that anyone – using […]

dPage: the webpage builder dApp built for use on Blockstack

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM – and XOR: the dApp for web hosting built for use on Blockstack.  With XOR, the ability to host static websites or single page apps on Blockstack and Blockstack’s Gaia architecture or any storage medium is now a reality.  With XOR, the ability to create […]

XOR: The dApp for web hosting built for use ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM – and Recall: a new decentralized photo storage dApp for use on Blockstack.  Recall – in beta – is brought to you by the creator of Travelstack https://bit.ly/2npdMhS  – another decentralized photo diary & social network for travelers. In the creators own words: “Recall every […]

Recall – a decentralized photo storage dApp.

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — A Small Step for Blockchains, A Giant Leap for Blockstack – Stacks Genesis Block and Stacks token transaction.  Not long ago, Blockstack launched a major update to its architecture – Stacks blockchain v1,  and just recently, successfully executed a transfer of some Stacks tokens […]

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — A Small Step for ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — Mobile Devices: Recent survey on U.S. Census site reveals that Two-Thirds Access internet on Mobile Device. This survey showed a “stunning increase in mobile broadband usage.”  And, with an increase in the internet usage coming from mobile devices, it follows that more applications will be […]

Mobile Device – Recent survey on U.S. Census site reveals ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Fupio – a new decentralized microblogging dApp. In the creators own words: a “dead simple decentralized microblogging application.” Some of the features/ideals of Fupio include: Fupio uses tags to categorize the posts Social networking communities should be free when sharing their thoughts. The […]

Fupio – a new decentralized microblogging dApp

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — App.co is a new universal dApp website for any and all dApps.  The website – App.co – is a new website brought to the decentralized internet space from Blockstack.     This website is yet another innovation from the group at Blockstack.  Like the […]

App.co is a new universal dApp website for any and ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Misthos – a new dApp multisig bitcoin wallet for businesses.  Misthos is a multisig bitcoin wallet for businesses.   In the creators own words: Misthos is a decentralised app for collaborative management of finances. Individuals collaborating on a project can use Misthos to manage […]

Blockstack: Misthos – a new dApp multisig bitcoin wallet for ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Website: Updated to Focus on the Developer.  The website for Blockstack has been updated to realign the mission of Blockstack to more accurately reflect its focus – to help the developer community or technical audience build decentralized applications (dapp(s)).   Straight from Blockstack: “We […]

Blockstack Website – Updated to Focus on the Developer

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Amsterdam: a new meetup group for Blockstack.  The group formed on July 24, 2018, and will be announcing a date for its first meet-up fairly soon. If you are interested in Blockstack and in the Amsterdam area, go to this link here for more […]

Blockstack Amsterdam: A new meetup group for Blockstack.  

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Vietnam is preparing for another meetup on August 12, 2018, in Vietnam.   If you are interested in Blockstack and are in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam during the month of August, please reach out to the group and signup for the meetup taking […]

Blockstack Vietnam is preparing for another meetup On August 12, ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Portland is hosting another Meetup on July 25, 2018 – The Governed Blockchain: The New Paradigm in Decentralized Applications.  Previously, we discussed this meetup group in this post here. Well, Blockstack Portland is busy preparing for its next Meetup on July 25, 2018.  The […]

Blockstack Portland is hosting another Meetup on July 25, 2018 ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — Oasis Labs is an interesting new project in the blockchain stack.  Apparently, Oasis Labs is presenting a new privacy-first, high performance cloud computing platform on blockchain.    We will try to provide a very brief overview of this new addition to the blockchain stack. In […]

Oasis Labs is an interesting new project in the blockchain ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — FreedomBox – the Personal Server that protects your privacy with free open source software.  Freedom Box is a project to provide software to help users of the internet regain control over how they interact with the internet.  FreedomBox is brought to you by the […]

FreedomBox – the Personal Server that protects your privacy with ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Portland is hosting another Meetup on May 16, 2018 – Superchain. Previously, we discussed this meetup group in this post here. Well, Blockstack Portland is busy preparing for its next Meetup tonight – May 16, 2018.  And, tonight will feature an upcoming platform […]

Blockstack Portland is hosting another Meetup on May 16, 2018 ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM – Online Privacy: Website Tools That May Help Protect You While You Use the Internet – Surveillance Self Defense. In an earlier post, we wrote about the resources from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and many other organization (e.g., Princeton, Stanford, Ghostery, Mozilla and others) […]

Online Privacy: Website Tools That May Help Protect You While ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: UPDATE to the Blockstack Community Rewards Program – Join in, contribute to Blockstack and receive rewards for your contribution.  It has been about a month since we visited the Blockstack Community Rewards and it looks like Team Blockstack and Prism.io have been busy […]

Blockstack: UPDATE to the Blockstack Community Rewards Program – Join ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Community Meetup for Consensus 2018 in NYC on Monday, May 14, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. Well, Blockstack is holding an event – Community Meetup – for Consensus 2018 event in New York City this week.  It appears that Team Blockstack will be ready to […]

Blockstack Community Meetup for Consensus 2018 in NYC on Monday, ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Stacks – The Token for use on the Blockstack Ecosystem has gone “live” with a testnet.  It appears that Blockstack’s Jude Nelson delivers once again. Our brief overview/synopsis of the the Blockstack token: Stacks will be used on the Blockstack network to introduce […]

Blockstack: Stacks – The Token for use on the Blockstack ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — Open Collective: Transparent Crowdfunding for Associations… open collective is an open source project to help associations, organizations.. and other collaborative efforts raise money through crowdfunding.  The entire process is deemed to be fully transparent, from raising funds, expenses, reimbursements to other spending….  It looks […]

Open Collective: Transparent Crowdfunding for Associations…

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — Graphite: Team Graphite: Announces a Paid Contracting Job.  We recently heard that Team Graphite – the dApp that can be used on the Blockstack ecosystem (which provides identity authentication, security, encryption and storage options etc.) to create documents sheets, conversations and more without giving […]

Graphite: Team Graphite Announces a Paid Contracting Job

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Evangelists: A Toolkit to help Evangelist and anyone else learn and help in the Evangelist endeavor. Another very important part – a vital part – of the Blockstack ecosystem is the Evangelist. The Evangelist is person on the front line, so to speak, […]

Blockstack Evangelists: A Toolkit to help Evangelist and anyone else ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — LessPass – a Stateless Password Manager.  LessPass is an open source project to use/generate passwords.  And, it looks like a neat open source password project worth checking out.  We will try and do a quick overview of LessPass for you. With LessPass, the developers […]

LessPass – a Stateless Password Manager

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — UPDATE – Blockstack Evangelists team grows: The Developer, Supporter, Growth Partner, Promoter – Evangelist for Blockstack. As we mentioned in an earlier post, another very important part – a vital part – of the Blockstack ecosystem is the Evangelist. The Evangelist is person on […]

UPDATE – Blockstack Evangelists team grows: The Developer, Supporter, Growth ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Remote Storage replication for a dApp – Graphite’s dApp Update: Storage Replication with Remote Storage… We recently heard some great news.  The team at Graphite – the dApp that can be used on the Blockstack ecosystem (which provides identity authentication, security, encryption and […]

Blockstack: Remote Storage replication for a dApp – Graphite’s ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Souq – a new mobile dApp for voluntary associations launches (beta version).  Previously, we discussed this new mobile dApp in connection with the meetup group in Portland here.  Souq is a decentralized project tagging and funding (crowdfunding) platform.  To sign-up for the beta […]

Blockstack: Souq – a new mobile dApp for voluntary associations ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: The Signature Fund Opens its Wallet once again for a new Bounty – a Universal Wallet. As mentioned previously, one aspect of promoting the Blockstack ecosystem is to provide a platform to help support the global community of developers, designers, and others to […]

Blockstack: The Signature Fund Opens its Wallet once again for ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: A New dApp – Kanstack kanban boards.  We just heard about a new decentralized application, a kanban board. Today, we will try and provide a brief overview of the new application.  When updates are pushed out, we will try and provide new posts […]

Blockstack: A New dApp – Kanstack kanban boards.

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Prism.io Partners with Blockstack on a Community Development Rewards Platform.  Late last week, we heard about the partnering of Prism.io and Blockstack to help Blockstack launch a new community rewards program – Blockstack Community Rewards Program. Today we are trying to provide a brief […]

Prism.io Partners with Blockstack on a Community Development Rewards Platform

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Blockstack Community Rewards Program – Join in, contribute to Blockstack and receive rewards for your contribution. Community spirit is on the rise. We just heard about the new Blockstack Community reward program introduced on Blockstack earlier today. As described by Blockstack’s Patrick Stanley, […]

Blockstack: Blockstack Community Rewards Program

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Coins Developer – Provides a Starter kit with React and Redux Bundler for developing on Blockstack.  We recently heard about a new tool for developers that was created by Thomas Osmonson – Coins dApp developer for Blockstack. Apparently, Mr. Thomas Osmonson created a […]

Blockstack: Coins Developer – Provides a Starter kit with React ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Blockchain Naming System (BNS) – It Makes The Namespace You Use On The Internet Better! UPDATE In an earlier post, we tried to provide a brief overview the Blockchain Naming System (BNS).  For more on that post, please follow this link here. Today, […]

Blockstack: Blockchain Naming System (BNS) – It Makes The Namespace ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Golang Implementation of Profile Indexer for Blockstack. A Blockstack engineer has been coding/hacking on the weekends to put together a profile indexer for Blockstack in a golang implementation.  If you are curious about that or a developer putting together a dApp for Blockstack, […]

Blockstack: Golang Implementation of Profile Indexer for Blockstack

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM – Online Data Privacy: European Union Stronger Rules on Data Protection – GDPR. If you are curious about data protection and plan to operate in the European Union, developers, users, companies and … should take a peek at the European Union’s website related to the […]

Online Data Privacy: European Union Stronger Rules on Data Protection ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: A New dApp – BlockChat.  Just came across a new decentralized chat/messaging application. BlockChat has launched a messaging application platform that you can use with Blockstack and Blockstack’s Browser (for full functionality). According to BlockChat, the messaging application gives you the ability to […]

Blockstack: A New dApp – BlockChat

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Vietnam is active and moving full steam ahead in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previously, we discussed another aspect of promoting and/or supporting Blockstack was through the myriad of Meetups happening worldwide.  Well, a new group – Blockstack Vietnam, is making things happen […]

Blockstack Vietnam is active and moving full steam ahead in ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Portland is hosting another Meetup on April 18, 2018 – UPDATE. Previously we discussed this meetup group in this post here. Well, Blockstack Portland is busy preparing for its next Meetup that will feature an upcoming dapp being built for Blockstack – Souq. […]

Blockstack Portland Meetup on April 18, 2018 – UPDATE

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Miami is hosting its first Meetup.  Previously we discussed a new Blockstack group  – Blockstack Miami. Well, Blockstack Miami is making things happen in Miami, Florida and is already hosting its first Meetup at 6:30 pm. on April 12, 2018. Today, we continue […]

Blockstack Miami is hosting its first Meetup

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Miami is active.  Previously we discussed another aspect of promoting and/or supporting Blockstack was through the Meetups happening worldwide.  Well, Blockstack Miami is making  things happen in Miami, Florida.   Blockstack Meetups help provide an additional platform to support the global community of […]

Blockstack Meetups: Blockstack Miami

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM – Blockstack Developers: Developers Collaborating on dApp Projects.  A couple of the active dApps on the Blockstack ecosystem – Graphite and Stealthy – are teaming up to further enhance each dApp.  It appears that Team Graphite and Team Stealthy are collaborating on making both dApps […]

Blockstack Developers: Developers Collaborating on dApp Projects

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM – Blockstack Developers: Using Open Source projects to Bootstrap dApps –  Further to the update of the Blockstack browser with a couple of new dApps, we wanted to bring additional attention to the use of open source projects in dApps built for the Blockstack ecosystem.  […]

Blockstack Developers: Using Open Source projects to Bootstrap dApps

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM – Online Privacy: Website Tools That May Help Protect You While You Use the Internet.  We recently ran across some resources from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and many other organization (e.g., Princeton, Stanford, Ghostery, Mozilla and others) that you may find useful in helping […]

Online Privacy – Website Tools That May Help Protect You ...

Welcome to The Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: Graphite dApp Update – New UI and Feature: Vault Storage… We recently heard some great news. The team at Graphite – the dApp that can be used on the Blockstack ecosystem to create documents sheets, conversations and more without giving up privacy – […]

Blockstack: Graphite dApp Update – New UI and Feature: Vault ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack Portland is hosting another Meetup on April 18, 2018.  Previously we discussed this meetup group in this post here.  Well, Blockstack Portland is busy preparing for its next Meetup that will feature an upcoming dapp being built for Blockstack – Souq. Blockstack Meetups […]

Blockstack Meetups: Blockstack Portland is hosting another Meetup on April ...

Welcome to the Stack CafeTM — Blockstack: The Berlin Event Presentation Videos are Here – Main Event and Learning Sessions At the Blockstack Signature Fund event held in Berlin in early March 2018, Blockstack brought together a community that included experts on data privacy, blockchain, information theory, cryptography, and the […]

Blockstack: The Berlin Event Presentation Videos are Here – Main ...