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Show HN: Nimiq: A Frictionless Payment Protocol Native to the Web
- wmf 9y agoOn one hand it's a good sign that it's simple and non-innovative but OTOH it doesn't add much value compared to Bitcoin implementations like CoPay or bcoin that can already run in the browser AFAIK.
- Capira 9y agoThanks a lot for your feedback! Doesn't any Bitcoin-based application require either a third-party or installation, because from a Browser you can't establish connections into the Bitcoin network without an intermediary?
- wmf 9y agoYeah, they require intermediary nodes but those aren't that different from your backbone nodes.
- Capira 9y agoAre those intermediaries also accessible for anyone and decentralized? Is there an open infrastructure upon which anybody can build web applications with nothing but static hosting?
- wmf 9y agoThat stuff either already exists or creating it would be much less work than creating a whole new currency. (Although I just did some googling and WebRTC support was removed from CoPay; I wonder what the story is there.)
- indescions_2017 9y agoVery interesting! Would love to hear more from the team behind this. Just to be clear, we are talking about a new cryptocurrency, blockchain, peer net mining system as well as transaction protocol all built on WebRTC and WebSockets?
- Capira 9y agoAbout the Team: https://nimiq.com/team/ https://nimiq.com/team/ we are talking about a new cryptocurrency, blockchain, peer net mining system as well as transaction protocol all built on WebRTC and WebSockets? exactly!