Category: Advanced Cyber/IO

Ten companies using the blockchain for non-financial innovation

Companies discusses: ascribe, bitproof.io, UProov, Colu, Warranteer, Everledger, Filament, Genecoin, Provenance, Wave, IBREA,

Phi Beta Iota: Ty Simpson helps us see that blockchain is about EVERYTHING, not just money. It is particularly (my view) about assuring the integrity of all information — including especially true cost information — in all languages. This is a hugely useful article with ten very specific examples of how blockchain makes integrity possible (this help eradicate corruption and waste).

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Top 25 Non-Financial Blockchain Startups

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Blockchain @ Phi Beta Iota

The Most Important Billion-Dollar Company You've Never Heard Of

Meet Jasper, Jahangir Mohammed's fast-growing yet near-invisible company helping to power the internet of things.

“The internet of things is not about things,” says Mohammed, a burly Indian with meaty hands and a beaming gap-toothed smile. “It's about becoming connected.” Once connected, each “thing” is “part of a bigger fabric,” he says. “And you can make money off the fabric by making the thing a conduit through which services are delivered. So that means you need software to create, launch, manage, bill, and monetize the service. That was our original insight.”

Anonymous Hacker Interview

CNN Money ran a series on hackers recently, one which had all the usual mainstream biases. There was the assumption that all hackers working for corporations were “good hackers”… the assumption that encrypted communication protects terrorists… and the assumption that there are easily-identifiable “good guys” and “bad guys” to begin with… with the government and the NSA being the good guys of course.

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Estonian Government and Bitnation Team Up for Blockchain in E-residency Program

BITNATION is the world’s first Blockchain powered virtual nation. It provides DIY Governance Services. The international public notary will be the first service the virtual nation provides specifically for Estonian e-residents, but BITNATION has previously received international attention for pioneering marriage, land titles, birth certificates, refugee emergency response, and world citizenship ID on the blockchain. Read more.