Following the finextra video I recorded the other week, several people on here and elsewhere have asked me for my views on the colored coin space. I concluded, after quite extensive reading, that there are actually quite few good high-level summaries - the ones I could find either descended too quickly into technical detail, turned into flamewars or didn't, at least to me, get to the core of the analysis. So I've taken a stab at writing a simple overview - i.e. one that's (more or less) technically accurate but still accessible to a non-expert.
Introduction to the topic: http://gendal.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/decentralised-digital-asset-registers-concepts/
Extending the discussion to explain mastercoin: http://gendal.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/decentralised-digital-asset-registers-mastercoin/
I've deliberately not discussed any of the controversy or expressed any views on the merits of the competing approaches... just tried to explain the technical differences. Comments welcome, ones that point out errors and omissions particularly so.
(As ever, that is my personal blog and the content doesn't represent the views, plans, opinions of my employer, etc, etc, etc)
Topic: Getting one's head around colored coins and mastercoin (Read 879 times)
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