One of the most striking features of blockchain is the utopian streak that runs through it -- the idea that blockchain can replace the existing authorities like banks and governments with a distributed network of trust, held in place by clever mathematics.
Bitcoin represents blockchain in its purest form: a distributed digital network that anyone is free to join…
The Netherlands’ Land Registry is expected to test blockchain technology for national real estate data, local tech platform Computable reported Thursday, May 31.
Koen Huisstede, an enterprise architect at the Land Registry, has said that the institution is seeking to understand what the “relatively new” technology means…
Education may be the next industry to be revolutionized by blockchain. With a blockchain network that securely stores and verifies data, educational records and transactions would be securely stored and tamper-evident, and learning would be more accessible to…
China's central bank has finished work on a blockchain-based system that digitizes checks issued by domestic businesses, according to a senior official.
In an op-ed published by a local news source on Tuesday, Di Gang, deputy head of the digital currency research lab at the People's Bank of China, said the department has "completed the infrastructure of a system that issues digital checks based on…
Last weekend TV viewers in China learned that “the value of blockchain is 10 times that of the internet.” The source? China Central Television (CCTV), the government-controlled main broadcaster. It was perhaps the biggest official endorsement of the technology in the country so…
You have certainly heard of the blockchain revolution. Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and bitcoin are all over the news.
You may be intrigued, you may be horrified, or you may feel some of both.
But you can't afford to ignore major trends in new technology. Like it or not, blockchain is here to stay. And it will have the power to enable your business like never…
According to Kevin Rooke, a cryptocurrency researcher and YouTuber, the Ethereum community already has more than 250,000 developers and 94 out of the top 100 blockchain projects have launched on top of the Ethereum network.
“You simply cannot build excellent applications and products without a big…
Investors grow wary of a bubble burst similar to the dot-com fiasco. The more evidence available of blockchain’s real-world value, the more likely investors will support new blockchain solutions, and in turn, consumers may place trust in this decentralized infrastructure…
A couple of Oxford faculty imagine a different kind of university, one that is distributed and democratic. Joshua Broggi, Faculty of Philosophy, is the founder of Woolf Development, a platform startup that aims to leverage distributed ledger technology to remove higher education intermediaries, support decentralized governance structures and ensure the security of…
To promote the new ConsenSys offices in Dublin, Lubin addressed the financial conference on Tuesday according to Business Insider. There, he spoke about his interpretation of the future of blockchain. He told his audience…