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Joe Duncan (IRIS)February 21, 2019

Blockchains Can Scale to Enterprise Levels, Here’s Why In a television interview last month, I compared the state of blockchain adoption to a 4-stage relay race, saying we’re at stage 3 where the baton is being passed from anarchist-early adopters onto enterprisers. In a subsequent follow-up interview on February 8th, I said the portal to mass scale […]

Stefan (Iris)February 15, 2019

A Guide To The Blockchain Tech A lot has been said about Bitcoin. A lot has been said about Bitcoin. This blockchain-based cryptocurrency is the first but, as you’ll see from Bitcoinfy’s infographic below, not the only one of its kind. It has changed the way we do ordinary and business transactions. Although many investors virtually made a fortune when Bitcoin […]

Stefan (Iris)January 23, 2019

No more will we only associate blockchain technology with cryptocurrencies. Various industries are working on ways to implement blockchain technology’s innovative features within their business operations. However, before we can fully appreciate the blockchain’s disruptive power, we need to fully grasp the concept of it. Simply put, the blockchain enables decentralized transactions across a peer-to-peer network. Transactions are recorded on […]

UrbanJanuary 5, 2019

“The practical consequence […is…] for the first time, a way for one Internet user to transfer a unique piece of digital property to another Internet user, such that the transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The […]

UrbanDecember 19, 2018

Blockchain development firm Blockstream has expanded its satellite service and is now broadcasting the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain to all of Earth’s major land masses, Forbes reported Dec. 17. The wider coverage — which comes via the addition of a fifth leased satellite — brings potential internet-free Bitcoin transactions and information sharing to crypto users in the Asia Pacific region. The satellite […]

UrbanDecember 16, 2018

A Intrapreneur from financial services giant Barclays has expressed the idea that blockchainsshould be built with regulatory compliance in mind, tech news website The Next Web (TNW) reported Dec. 14. Speaking at a Hard Fork Decentralized event, Barclays’ Julian Wilson stated that when building blockchains, developers need to “reconfigure our approach and way of thinking.” Wilson argued that not all […]

UrbanDecember 16, 2018

The CEO of crypto merchant platform BitPay Stephen Pair stated that speculation on future adoption drives Bitcoin’s (BTC) price more than “actual utility,” in an interview on CNBC Dec. 13. Speaking on the reasons behind Bitcoin’s current value, compared to its historic price highs, Pair told reporters: “A very big component of the [Bitcoin’s] price is certainly speculation. It’s investors […]

UrbanDecember 11, 2018

Australian truck and transport insurance company National Transport Insurance (NTI) has revealed that it is partnering with BeefLedger, an Australian blockchain platform on a pilot program that will deploy blockchain technology for end-to-end tracking of Australian beef exports. Aimed at improving food safety, export security and animal welfare in Australia, the program will use a distributed ledger […]

UrbanDecember 8, 2018

Australia’s coastal city of Fremantle has kicked off a trial that will allow some residents to trade solar power on a blockchain-based platform provided by renewable energy-focused crypto startup Power Ledger. According to the Minister for Finance, Energy and Aboriginal Affairs in the government of Western Australia, Ben Wyatt, around 40 households in Fremantle will participate […]

UrbanNovember 18, 2018

Thailand’s Democrat Party, the country’s main opposition party has become the first major political party in the world to carry out primary elections entirely on a blockchain. Using a live e-voting system powered by the Zcoin blockchain, the party successfully conducted its primaries which involved more than 120,000 voters between November 1 and November 9. […]

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