This article was written by Andrew Wagner, the founder of www.blockchaingaming.com Background The concept of sharding predates blockchains. Defined by some experts as “breaking up your big database into much smaller databases that share nothing,” it was intended to fix issues that arose as databases grew too large, such as increased response times when querying for data. It also helped …
This article was written by Andrew Wagner, the founder of www.blockchaingaming.com Background The oldest and hardest goal in the blockchain gaming industry has been to develop a completely decentralized game, one based on a persistent online world with no server. Early experiments such as Huntercoin and Motocoin proved epic, but were held back from the mainstream by installation difficulty, hardware …