Google Chrome needs no introduction and most people who visited an internet page within the last 5 years likely used Chrome or one of the Chromium based browsers.
Figure 1. Chrome Market Share since 2013 Chrome is the browser developed and maintained by Google and it is a great browser. Chrome brought speed to the internet, a fast and slick interface, themes, extensions, excellent Javascript support, great tools for developers.
At the launch of the Kusama network, there was no way to identify who the owner of a given account was beside making your own research and adding a name to an account in the https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/addressbook[PolkadotJS UI]. New solutions have been tested and the system is evolving.
Your account as an id, custodial wallets and dApp browsers. How to leap forward decentralized services.
The (no longer so) “inter” net of 2019 In 2019, the typical workflow for a traveler through the internet looks most of the time as:
open your favourite web browser
browse to your favourite site directly or through a search
select your auth provider, which mostly mean clicking on on of the button below.
Wilfried Kopp, aka Chevdor, talks about Substrate and Polkadot, as well as his work with KI decentralized, a blockchain consultancy, and Polkabot, a chat-bot for monitoring the Polkadot network.
Substrate & Polkadot are new Blockchain technologies programmed in a rather new but ultra safe language called Rust. This article helps you get started with a full network running locally, without requiring any prio Rust knowledge.