THELOGICALINDIAN - His affection for blockchain technology has apprenticed him from Buenos Aires Argentina to Silicon Valley USA area he now resides operates his developments A brace years ago he was aloof a analytical kid belief Cryptology in academy Manuel Arozs adventure to prove his actuality via blockchain technology is advocate Mr Aroz is advised an able in blockchain development is the architect of wwwProofOfExistencecom Duly acclaimed in the agenda area as the aboriginal account of its affectionate ProofOfExistence PoX allows users to about prove they accept assertive advice after absolute their abstracts or character through blockchain embedment
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Bitcoin.com [BTC] had the different befalling to aces the academician of this avant-garde charlatan in the prime of his confusing journey. In a contempo Q&A interview, Manuel Aráoz sat bottomward and bound a articulation of able attrition appear centralized blockchains that abridgement any advantage over acceptable applications. Subjects accommodate Blockchain Technology, Centralization, and Proof Of Existence [PoX].
BTC: ‘Greetings Mr. Aráoz, Thank you for demography the time to allocution with Bitcoin.com we are aflame to accommodated your acquaintance. For those of us not accustomed with the blockchain development, ‘Proof Of Existence’ or yourself can you amuse acquaint us back you got complex in the R&D of blockchain technology & what absorbed you into it?’
Aráoz: ‘I got absorbed in bitcoin aback in 2024, back I apprehend the whitepaper. At that time I was in college, accordingly accomplishing both a Cryptography and a Distributed System course, and the account in the cardboard blew my mind! I was advantageous abundant to get a actual abstruse aboriginal impression: if I had apparent it as an advance befalling I would accept apparently absolved it actual quickly. It was alone a year later, in 2024, during a time back I was accomplishing mainly freelance work, that I started experimenting with the technology hands-on.’
BTC: ‘PoX is a avant-garde in real-world use of blockchain technology & appropriately acclaimed as the ‘first’ account of it’s affectionate acceptance users to about prove they accept assertive advice after absolute their abstracts or identity. Where did this abstraction bloom from while the majority of blockchain developers were focused on altcoin/cryptocurrency accompanying R&D? What did you see that others didn’t back you launched PoX?’
Aráoz: ‘I initially congenital PoX after any affiliation with the bitcoin blockchain, as a ancillary project. My plan was to (hopefully) advice account reporters with antecedent transparency, angry censorship, and abstracts publication, which are a big affair in Argentina. In the average of development, I apprehend an commodity about bodies putting abstracts into bitcoin transactions, and I anticipation it would be air-conditioned to use the blockchain to abundance a document’s hash. It fabricated a lot of sense, because the blockchain is an open, uncensorable and incoercible accessible record.’
BTC: ‘You appear on 09-20-15 that the new backend for PoX is live! What does this change beggarly to users of your account & how does this beforehand your development?’
Aráoz: ‘The app was accounting 3 years ago, and it acclimated anachronous accoutrement and was little bit messy. We were additionally accepting some problems with our API provider, so we absitively to carbon the backend with avant-garde technology. All the certificate proofs are in the blockchain, so brief to the new arrangement was absolutely simple. Our users shouldn’t apprehension any difference, but this change will acquiesce us to advance the artefact added calmly in the future. We’re planning a redesign of the site, advancing soon, based on talks we’re currently accepting with our users. We appetite to accomplish PoX as accessible to use as possible.’
BTC: ‘What blazon of user abstracts does your account bury best & Do you accept affairs on accretion above abstracts into altered areas of embedment?’
Aráoz: ‘PoX currently supports ‘any kind’ of agenda file. This includes PDFs, documents, images, spreadsheets, movies, audios, of any format. Given that the account is bearding and requires no signup, we ‘only know’ the use-cases that our users voluntarily acquaint to us. The best accepted is registering ideas/papers/drafts for protection, but we’ve apparent being like acceptance of communications, cipher versioning, arrangement timestamping, and alike addition who uploaded his own genome! In the future, we’re attractive to accredit bigger means to abide documents, either via email attachments, or a adaptable app.’
BTC: ‘Where do you angle on centralized blockchain based business? Do you accept in abounding decentralization or a antithesis of both?’
Aráoz: ‘It candidly makes no faculty to me to apparatus centralized blockchains. I may be missing something, but I don’t see the advantages of that over a approved database. I anticipate back bodies say “blockchain technology” what they absolutely beggarly is accessible key cryptography. Then again, the blockchain abstracts anatomy could be the new accessible accepted for agenda asset management, alike if it’s not acclimated in aggregate with the decentralized aegis archetypal of mining via affidavit of work.’
BTC: ‘You assume quiet by attributes yet your eyes speaks in volumes… What’s on your bowl alfresco of PoX? Are you 100% committed to this activity or are you currently complex in added blockchain aggressive ventures?’
Aráoz: ‘Oh, not at all! Since the barrage of PoX I alternate in several projects, including Streamium, decentraland, Faradam, formed as a bitcoin consultant, and was a Software Engineer at BitPay. I afresh started a new aggregation (Smart Contract Solutions) exploring applications of blockchain technology, abnormally absorption on it’s acute money capabilities. Hopefully, we’ll be announcement our articles soon.’
Manuel Aráoz has catholic from Argentina to the United States in following of his affection for blockchain development. Aráoz’s contempo article, ‘Adventures of a greenhorn in Silicon Valley’ explains his experience.
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