WAX ON: What are the Pros and Cons of EOS Blockchain?
Channel: WAX NFTs
Date: 2019-10-17

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Episode 2: William Quigley discusses the pros and cons of EOS Blockchain

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Transcript: 
What are the pros and cons of EOS? In other words, why was EOS even created? So EOS was created to overcome two of the most vexing problems in blockchain - transaction speed, transaction costs. These are at the heart of what prevents blockchains from reaching commercial scalability. 

So how did EOS do that? Well, they created something called DPoS. DPoS delegated proof of stake, consensus mechanism. What that really is just a way for transactions to get validated quickly and correctly (can’t have any little scams going on). So it's like what Bitcoin mining and Ethereum mining is for validating transactions on Ethereum and Bitcoin, the DPoS consensus mechanism is the way transactions get validated on EOS. 

So how has it worked out? Well, I'd say a year after launch, a little bit more, really well. EOS is much faster than Ethereum, hundreds of transactions per second versus Ethereum’s 10-15. And it's free. Yeah, there are no transaction costs on EOS and that's critical if you're going to build a commercially scalable and popular blockchain. 

Now you do have that own EOS tokens to reserve system resources, but those tokens stay there in your wallet and don't get used up. They're more like holding them in escrow, so no transaction fees, I like that. Thus far, there's been about 5,000 apps that we call dApps that have built on the EOS blockchain and that's pretty good. 

So EOS works well but does have a few drawbacks. One, you need to educate the users about something called voting and staking. Those things are a bit complicated. Well voting is you actually select which entities get to validate a transaction. It's like if on Bitcoin you were picking who the miners would be. And then you have staking. Staking is basically tying up your tokens in some wallet, it might be the Scatter wallet, in order to get system resources. 

So you can't get them unless you stake, you also can't vote unless you stake. And then there's the account creation. I'll just say here, it's a bit wonky. It's not easy to create an account on EOS, which isn't great if you're trying to grow the user base. It's got usability issues. 

One of those I just mentioned earlier is something called Scatter. While Scatter is a good first attempt, it's a crypto wallet that you use to actually work on the blockchain, it is way too complicated for the average person to use. And that I think is a major stumbling block to making EOS popular. Now if you can fix those problems and they're not insurmountable problems, the EOS platform would actually be pretty good.

Well, that's why I created the WAX protocol. The WAX protocol uses this DPoS consensus mechanism and it's a blockchain that's been purpose-built for commercial scalability and usability. 

WAX was inspired by everything I've learned about virtual item trading, especially video game virtual item trading where you need very, very large scale and you need to worry about things like costs and speed. At the heart of the WAX protocol is the WAX service layer. So the WAX protocol has a micro-service layer that allows dApps to easily develop and to on-board new users onto their dApps. 

WAX also has the best UI for adding blockchain customers. It makes creating and managing a blockchain account as easy as installing an app on an iPhone or sending an item to somebody on a phone. 

If you're interested in learning more about the WAX protocol, we've created a matrix that compares WAX to a number of other blockchains, including Ethereum and EOS. You can find it at the link below. And if you want to learn more about actually building on the WAX protocol, check out the WAX Developer Hive. Also at the link below, you'll be able to find a ton of developer resources to help you build your dApp on the WAX Blockchain. See you soon.

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