First Impressions of Radix Engine as a Platform for a Global UBI
I’ve been interested in helping develop a decentralized universal basic income for some time (sometimes called “CryptoUBI”). At first glance it might seem like a blockchain challenge, but the scalability demands of such a technology promptly rules out centralized ledgers.
This winter break I wanted to explore a blockchain alternative and I found Radix Engine, a pretty active project that just released a smart contract language (Scrypto) for developers to play around with.
This is a tad long so each section can be read separately and has a TLDR.