Is the Blockchain Broken?
Competitors are preparing to exploit inherent weaknesses in Blockchain This May, Bitcoin’s value rocketed by 65 percent. By the following month, one bitcoin was equal to $2,000. It looked as if the cryptocurrency had finally broken out of the trough of disillusionment into mainstream adoption. However, it became clear that the blockchain-based technology had bitten …
Companies Run By Code: Using Blockchain for Better Business
Blockchain has many applications beyond the financial As we all know, blockchain has a key role in how cryptocurrencies work. The currencies themselves are disrupting traditional payments, but blockchain has proven that it has many applications well beyond this. While digital currencies have expanded their influence, the number of applications of blockchain technology has only …
The Fake Economy Big Business
How Can Companies Counter Counterfeit? You might not know it, but there’s every chance that you’ve invested in a fake. Almost anything can be faked, from socks to electrical devices. The easier something is to make, the more attractive it becomes as a target, so the percentage of counterfeit apparel is higher than that of electronic …
Big Energy Businesses Backing Blockchain: Detailed Information
Earlier this year, LO3 Energy set up a peer-to-peer microgrid in Brooklyn, New York. The initiative enabled consumers to generate, store and sell solar energy within the community, instead of buying directly from the grid. How does it work? Blockchain. Smart contracts validate sales between members of the community, storing the transactions in the general ledger. This …
5 Things You Didn’t Know Blockchain Could Do
The blockchain can be used in truly interesting ways We all know that blockchain technology is so much more than just bitcoin. In fact, this revolutionary tool is changing the way we interact with goods and services in both the digital and physical worlds. Blockchain is being developed for more and more uses, whether that’s achieving …
Digital Supply Chain – If The Answer Isn’t Blockchain What Is?
John Straw highlights some long and short-term solutions to successful digital supply chains As Knut Alicke pointed out in his insightful piece on the role of Blockchain in the digital supply chain (DSC)- it’s something of a solution looking for a problem – I think the answers that provide the foundation for a highly efficient DSC at …
Blockchain Vs The Economy
Economic Evolution – If you can’t beat ’em, coin ’em We are living in a market-driven, international, profit-focused economy. Within this economy, businesses have adopted a range of new techniques to widen their scope and maximize wealth. Whether this means contracting internal activity to an external company via offshoring, or doing the exact opposite, there …
Woolf University: Blockchain For Education
Blockchain could drag higher education out of antiquity Since the first compulsory classrooms of the 19th century, the education system has undergone little change. The use of 3D printing, advanced robotics, and AI has brought new technological understanding to classroom environments, but there are still many issues with how formal learning facilities are run. In …
At A Glance Tokenomics
Linking investor success & cryptocurrency growth What is at a glance tokenomics? Linking investor success & cryptocurrency growthCryptocurrencies have taken the financial world by storm. Cryptocurrencies have taken the financial world by storm. There are now comparison sites to help investors choose which ones to invest in, and global exchanges to manage transactions. One of …
At A Glance – Zero Knowledge Proof
A new way to build trust while maintaining absolute privacy Trust is fundamental to every single business transaction. In order to make deals, whether online or in the physical world, we need to know who we are doing business with and whether or not they will honor their promises. The problem is that this comes …
