Penguin: Open Source Blockchain Consortium in China — 100 Companies (Comment by Robert Steele)

100 plus Chinese companies to build open blockchain consortium In May 2016, over 100 Chinese companies, representing organizations from six industry sectors including banking, fund management, securities brokerage, insurance, regional equity exchanges, and financial information service formed the Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Consortium (FISCO). One of the goals of the consortium is to coordinate and integrate …

Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Blockchain Banking – Amazon Too But Better?

IBM Embraces Blockchain for Banking: Is Amazon in the Game Too? IBM recently announced the creation of LedgerConnect, a Blockchain powered banking service. This is an interesting move for a company that previously seemed to waver on whether it wanted to associate with this technology most famous for its links to cryptocurrency. However, the pairing …

Yoda: Blockchain of Good – Republic of Conscience

BLOCKCHAIN Alliance for Good Internet-of-Value Blockchain Initiative for Socially Good Integrated Transactions (Bisgit.org) is run by the not-for-profit Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance, the leading open source international Think Tank on the Movement of Value. We are a free membership organisation promoting the idea of a non-financial currency for intangible value. We keep our …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon’s Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) — The Ultimate Censorable, Manipulable Walled Garden, a World Brain Of, By, and For the Zionists?

Amazon: Why Support Blockchain? To Chase IBM? Wrong. In June 2018, I will describe Amazon’s lynch pin approach to intelligence analysis. The “play” has been ignored or overlooked by those who monitor the next generation information access market. At the Telestrategies ISS conference, I will report the DarkCyber and Beyond Search analysts’ assessment of this …

#GoogleGestapo: YouTube Substitutes on Blockchain

Startup Raises $20 Million to Build ‘YouTube on the Blockchain’ Silicon Valley startup Lino is preparing to take on YouTube with a decentralized, collectively-owned video content distribution system that purports to cut out the middleman to more fairly compensate content creators. The company, which faces competition from Streamspace, Flixxo, Viuly and Stream, all of which …