Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the principles, research and pure innovation of others on the blockchain ecosystem. Opoch is but an attempt to take forward the good work others have done. We also acknowledge the support of our backers and advisors. We are grateful for the Merkle Labs team - talented, passionate people who don’t take offense at being called dreamers.

1. Cryptourrency Market Capitalization: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

2. Swan, M. Blockchain: Blueprint for a new economy. " O’Reilly Media, Inc.", 2015.

3. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

4. Cosmos: Internet of Blockchains - https://cosmos.network/whitepaper

5. Polkadot - https://polkadot.network/Polkadot-lightpaper.pdf

6. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

7. The rise of APIs - https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/21/the-rise-of-apis/

8. Weth - https://weth.io/

9. Stable Coins - https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/17/an-overview-of-stablecoins/

10. Bitcoin Whiepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

11. History of Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

13. Ebay reference

15. https://medium.com/evergreen-business-weekly/the-power-of-network-effects-why-they-make-such-valuable-companies-and-how-to-harness-them-5d3fbc3659f8

16. Giving away Bitcoins/Cryptocurrencies.

18. AI/ML Take away our Jobs

20. Death of Journalism: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/losing-money-and-losing-trust-the-crisis-of-modern-journalism/7679066

21. Touch ID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_ID

22. Face ID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_ID

23. Facebook Q1' 2018: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2018/Facebook-Reports-First-Quarter-2018-Results/default.aspx

24. Top Sites of the world: https://www.alexa.com/topsites

25. Google Q1' 2018: https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf

26. Global Internet Population: https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/

27. Ari David Paul on Cryptocurrency adoption: https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/990834672866381824

28. Shamir's Secret Sharing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing