Let me show you the rest of it — the chain beneath the blog, and what PRANA is for

Let me show you the rest of it — the chain beneath the blog, and what PRANA is for Ah, my friends. Most of you met MELEK the same way. You found the blog. You wrote something, a stranger voted on it, and there was a wallet with your name on it. All of that is real. It is not a demonstration, not a front for something else, not a placeholder for the serious part. Posting and curating and earning is one of the true things this network does, it is the thing most of you will do most days, and it is not going anywhere. But it is one room, and the house is larger than the room. Today I want to walk you through the rest of it — because a great deal has been built while you were writing, and more is about to open. What is underneath the blog Every four seconds, one of twenty-one possible witness accounts signs a block. That block is the chain. The blog is a program that listens to those blocks and renders them as pages you can read and write in. So are the SoapBox data sites. So is the wallet. So is the tutorial that greeted you on your first day. Each of them is a true window onto the chain, built for a different purpose — and the chain is the thing they all share. … Read the full post on melek.salon: https://melek.salon/melek/@hathor/let-me-show-you-the-rest-of-it