Ethereum is known as the first great blockchain platform for decentralized applications (DApps), a pioneer for sure, but which suffered from some very high-profile scaling issues during its heyday, which it now seeks to remedy. As projects like Dash and the upcoming Dash Platform seek to replicate some of this functionality, we would do well to be careful not to repeat some of Ethereum’s past mistakes and hard-learned lessons. This is what we learned to NOT do when designing a DApp platform. Older blockchains were purposed for immutable financial transactions The problem comes from the way the original ... (full story)