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February 21, 2016 9:16 AM
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FIBER and De Brakke Grond present ‘Michel Bauwens & The Promise of the Blockchain – Future applications of decentralized databases’.
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February 11, 2016 2:09 PM
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Just before the holidays, we announced a new open source effort to advance blockchain technology for a distributed ledger that could be used across industries.
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February 7, 2016 4:39 PM
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Video interview of co-founder Christopher David: “The former ‘illegal Uber driver’ Christopher David — who provides rides to Portsmouth, New Hampshire residents when cab companies will not — has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It’s called Arcade City.” Watch the video here:
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February 1, 2016 12:16 PM
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Decentralization simply means building mechanisms which allow for a group of peers to efficiently arrive at decisions without having to rely on fixed hierarchies, central coordination and single points of failure. From an excellent article on the “Mike Hearn” controversy in the promising magazine Backfeed, excerpted from Julian Feder: “Since Hearns post mid january, the …
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January 28, 2016 12:47 PM
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At first there was Bitcoin†: the world’s most successful cryptocurrency to-date. But lately there has been more and more talk about “the Bitcoin blockchain”, “the blockchain”, “blockchain”, or “blockchain technology”. Bloomberg reports that Nasdaq... | Tony Arcieri | Hi there. I work on the Platform Security Team at Square. These days I dabble in cryptography, but in the past made the Celluloid actor framework for Ruby and the Reia programming language
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January 16, 2016 4:09 PM
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Has the Bitcoin experiment run its course? According to Mike Hearn, who claims to be one of the founding developers, the answer is yes. He cites technical problems, the block is too small, transactions take too long, and no one can agree on what can be do to resolve these issues. Rumours abound that Bitcoin Foundation…
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January 13, 2016 2:09 PM
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Share with:In a post coined Five Technology Predictions for 2016, Otto Berkes, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Computer Associates (CA) predicts blockchain technology will be the surprise player in 2016 saying that it...
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January 12, 2016 3:13 PM
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While Wall Street seems more interested in the idea of permissioned or private blockchains these days, the point of Bitcoin in developing countries has nothing to do with the technology underpinning the decentralized payment network.
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January 9, 2016 11:09 AM
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Since its inception in 2009, Bitcoin—a digital currency secured by encryption—has attracted attention, interest, and controversy. Less attention (at least until
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January 7, 2016 9:55 AM
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Adam Ryan, CEO of Australian e-procurement service provider Think, is an advocate for blockchain technology and believes the secure payment facilitator has the potential to redefine a business model.
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January 6, 2016 12:05 PM
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A list of P2P trends for reconstructing our world with distributed infrastructures, shared resources, commons, and related livelihoods.
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December 29, 2015 1:25 PM
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Editor’s Note: The authors of this post are attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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December 23, 2015 3:26 PM
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Blockchain?What You Need to Know : Decentralization Is Disrupting Vertical IndustriesBlockchains are a new data structure that is secure, cryptography-based, and distributed across a network.
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February 18, 2016 11:46 AM
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Christopher David has garnered 1,600+ drivers to launch a competing app on February 14th. It's called Arcade City
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February 7, 2016 4:46 PM
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An Alaskan commentator and judge has called for the world to embrace blockchain network while explaining Pope Francis blockchain technology's potential.
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February 4, 2016 11:46 AM
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Widely known as the technology underpinning the digital currency bitcoin, blockchain has acquired a new identity in the enterprise.
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January 30, 2016 7:52 AM
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In 1996, John Perry Barlow, american poet, writer for the grateful dead and cyber-libertarian activist had the admirable nerve to address the world economic forum in Davos, and share with the bewildered, Armani suited gentleman on scene the following “Declaration of the independence of cyberspace”, which went like this: Governments of the Industrial World, you …
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January 23, 2016 9:52 AM
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Sir Mark Walport recommends using Blockchain technology to get the biggest possible benefits for the United Kingdom.
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January 15, 2016 1:59 PM
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privBlockchains are a powerful technology, as regular readers of the blog already likely agree.
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January 13, 2016 1:56 PM
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Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock claims that innovations in the
technology industry could lay the foundations for better public services
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January 11, 2016 12:22 PM
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Blockchain technology stands to radically transform our concept of the corporation where machines, not humans, are both the customers and employees.
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January 7, 2016 9:56 AM
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As a B2B News Network reader, you may be familiar with the emerging fintech called blockchain.
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January 6, 2016 12:09 PM
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January 6, 2016 11:54 AM
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In less than 90 minutes of short videos you should be able to understand how Bitcoin, Blockchain and Ethereum works, how is it possible to create applications, contracts, democratic systems or value exchange and reputation systems that are incorruptible, decentralized, without intermediaries, secure, impossible to censor and verifiable. Without magic. Projects like Bitcoin, Blockstream or…
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December 26, 2015 9:35 AM
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We can build a socio-economic community with a sovereign currency without abandoning the Euro
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