TEDx Talks Published on May 15, 2017 Richie Etwaru, discusses the opportunity and implications of blockchain as a paradigm to slow/chose the expanding trust gap in commerce. He unpacks blockchain to a level of simplicity to be consumed by those that are just starting to understand and explore the paradigm. Read more…
TED Published on Dec 8, 2016 Say hello to the decentralized economy — the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for centralized institutions like banks or governments to facilitate trade, Read more…
Capgemini Group Published on Oct 3, 2016 At Global Architecture Week 2015, we covered ‘Digital Currencies and Cash’ and their relevance to Tax and Welfare Authorities, concluding with the message: “It’s not about Bitcoin, it’s about the Blockchain”. Blockchain technology has the potential to enable a new mutually trusted, Read more…
Institute for the Future (IFTF) Published on Apr 18, 2016 Over the past decade, an alternative digital paradigm has slowly been taking shape at the edges of the internet. This new paradigm is the blockchain. After incubating through millions of Bitcoin transactions and a host of developer projects, it Read more…
Ivan on Tech Published on Sep 27, 2017 Blockchain use cases – a very important topic that I think we need to talk more about! What can blockchain be used for? Today we discuss how the blockchain technology can be applied in cybersecurity, charity and fundraising! Bitcoin, Ethereum and other Read more…
This video is part of a larger online course, “From Barter to Bitcoin: Society, Technology and the Future of Money” run by Prof. Bill Maurer and Prof. Donald J. Patterson In addition to the video on YouTube there is a variety of other content available to students enrolled in the Read more…
Future Thinkers Published on Jun 15, 2017 The blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It provides a way to record and transfer data that is transparent, safe, auditable, and resistant to outages. The blockchain has the ability to make the organizations that use it transparent, Read more…
Courstsey: Steemit Ethereum really brought cryptographic money into the mainstream when Ether (the name for Ethereum’s token) surged from under $12 a token to over $200 a token in under 6 months, with tops over $400. Be that as it may, Ethereum is by all account not the only blockchain Read more…
Courstsey: McKinsey The conversation around blockchain is changing. We’re only now starting to understand this technology’s full potential, says one executive. Bitcoin isn’t mainstream yet, and some skepticism of the digital currency remains. But the buzz surrounding the technology underlying it—blockchains—has started to take a different tone. Blockchain, headquartered in Luxembourg, Read more…
