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Review on Cardano by John Murphy

Revainrating 4 out of 5

This is a very serious project that aims to build a blockchain on a foundationโ€ฆ

This is a very serious project that aims to build a blockchain on a foundation of peer review, and academic research. If you'd like to learn more, you can find a wealth of information at the Cardano Hub, or feel free to review the code.
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Pros
  • Cardano\ADA will have cross chain atomic swaps between other crypto currencies like Litecoin and others are implementing. This will allow for decentralized exchanges and the ultimate in flexibility and interchangeability.
Cons
  • Job-security. Core components of Cardano itself is written in insanely rigorous way in Haskell with some additional stuff (like dependent types). It's one of the reasons why the community loves the project, myself included. But my concern is that it's gonna greatly restrict the amount of people that could support and extend the platform in the feature. It is very cool to have teams like Serokell, who knows the insides of the platform so they can participate in it's further development (thru treasury), but I reckon that entry-level for a developer to try and change even a slightest bit is hella high. It's quite possible that this is actually one of the reasons for them to develop it this way, so no shitcoders would be too confident to mess with it. But it also kinda

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