The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have the Level One project to use Digital financial services (including blockchain for identification) for financial services for the world’s poor. Digital financial services (DFS) are among the quickest and most effective ways of turning millions of unbanked citizens into formal financial customers. For the first time in history, …
The ICO market has not collapsed. There is still more money being raised by ICO’s in 2018. December 2017 ended with a new record of $1.1 billion raised, and the first quarter of 2018 with its $5 billion raised already exceeded the whole of last year. The overall volume of ICO projects in 2018 could …
R3 is developing a blockchain-platformed operating system called Corda. A 100-plus member consortium of banks, regulators and technology partners are developing Corda and are led by blockchain tech start-up R3 CEV. Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact …
Nasdaq has partnered with Chain, a bitcoin infrastructure firm, for a pilot program to test the use of blockchain for trading shares of private companies. The Chain Protocol is a design for a shared, multi-asset, cryptographic ledger. It supports the coexistence and interoperability of multiple independent networks, with different operators, sharing a common format and …
There are interesting parallels between blockchain supply chain and containerization and the impacts on the world and their inventors. Blockchain supply chain should have multi-trillion dollar impacts and containerization has had multi-trillion dollar impacts. Both improve the efficiency, speed and scale of trading. Both have made the inventors very rich. Shipping containers are considered one …
The Nash equilibrium featured in the Beautiful Mind movie. It is one of the foundational concepts in game theory. The reality of the Nash equilibrium of a game can be tested using experimental economics methods. Game theorists use the Nash equilibrium concept to analyze the outcome of the strategic interaction of several decision makers. In …
The world currently wastes or loses trillions of dollars from inefficient management of supply chains. There is hundreds of billions lost of fraud and counterfeiting. There is bureaucracy and administration to handle accounting, auditing and administration. There are multiple computer systems used by each party to the system. Supply chains makeup or impact 70% of …
As blockchain technology becomes mainstream, industry participants and blockchain developers will increasingly have to collaborate to develop standards and interoperability protocols. The World Intellectual Property Association has an article in WIPO magazine, “Blockchain and IP law: a match made in crypto heaven?” by Birgit Clark, Baker McKenzie, London, United Kingdom on Feb, 2018. This article …
Coinlib.io tracks over 2700 cryptocurrencies and over 650 tokens. This is 1100 more cryptocurrencies than what is covered by Coinmarketcap. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends …
There is a theory that some of the projects that Ethereum based could have been dumping Ethereum. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …
KYC.Legal is a service that allows to verify users and to prevent fraud. It is based on blockchain technology as a tool for protecting and validating personal data of Internet users. For KYC.legal users Personal information is protected by encryption and biometric data Data is hosted on user’s device User is able to choose information …