CHAIN REACTION · Issue 4
What Is Kaspa? — Classroom Edition
Last issue we did Kaspa: Playground Edition. This week we step one foot into the classroom.
Kaspa, in Plain Terms
Bitcoin showed the world what was possible. Kaspa asks a simple follow-up: what if you kept the same foundation, but removed the speed bottleneck?
Kaspa sticks with proof-of-work, keeping the foundation intact: decentralization and security. The difference is speed. It’s faster because the network can process more at once.
The mind behind it, Yonatan Sompolinsky, isn’t new to this game. His earlier work on GHOST is cited in Ethereum’s whitepaper.
The strange part isn’t the tech. It’s how few people are paying attention.
For now.