I have heard a lot of people debating Substratum vs Skycoin, both ofcourse claim to be better than the competitor and it's hard to come to an unbiased conclusion so I tried to gather the most important facts and present a somewhat thorough conclusion. Disclaimer: I don't hold either of these coins as I'm too risk averse for the crypto markets, I still love the tech and writing about it though.Open-Source We all love open source projects in crypto as they make sure there are no backdoors and the community can help develop the platform, right now Substratum 'only' has their node system on github while Skycoin has basically everything on github.Usability right now A lot of projects make bold claims for the future and have great ideas, but actually getting stuff done matters a lot too. Tha's why im also looking at current usability. Substratum seems to have an open beta to test their software although from comments on reddit it looks like there isn't much use yet as there is no anonimity (yet?). Link Skycoin's testnet seems to go live on may 22nd so I'm not sure who the clear winner is in this category. One thing going for Sky though is that their coin runs on their own blockchain platform and has a transaction time of 2 seconds and free transactions, Substratum uses an Ethereum token.Plans for the future / Roadmap Substratum's roadmap is developing the network, nodes and CryptoPay as well as global expansion which increases the usability because the more nodes the better it works and the more stable the network is. Skycoin as mentioned in the last paragraph will launch it's testnet on May 22, and aside from that will launch 'Fiber' which lets companies build Dapps with their own blockchains so that they won't run into scalability problems like we saw with cryptokitty game. According to their whitepaper they plan to develop antenna's for their own internet and according to telegram and reddit Sky will be listed on more exchanges once exchanges are done testing the consensus algo 'Obelisk'.More differences From some previous comparisons and telegram/reddit people are saying Sub is focusing on decentralized hosting while Sky is focusing on decentralizing bandwidth and ISP infrastructure, other differences are SUB is ERC-20 and SKY has it's own blockchain and probably some more differences I missed :DAnyway, I hope you guys appreciate this write up comparison thingy, and may the best solution win, or both work together ;)
Submitted May 19, 2018 at 08:11PM
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