Berto Jongman: Blockchain & The Silk Road

The Future of Financial Services Using Blockchain Technology Infrastructures Top 100 Blockchain Organisations: From CoinDesk to BitPay, These Are the Most Influential Organisations in the Distributed Ledger Space The Belt and Road: China’s ‘project of the century’ The Ultimate Challenge of the Silk Road: Empowerment

Penguin: Potentially Fatal Blockchain Protocols

Op-Ed: The Potentially Fatal Flaw of Open-Source Blockchain Protocols Erik Kuebler Bitcoin Magazine If society truly becomes open-source, the only factors that will keep protocols defensible in the long term are an exceptionally talented team, a loyal community and significant network effect.

Dave Room: Blockchain and the Synaptic Post-Google Internet

Blockchain and the Synaptic Post Google Internet   Many are heralding blockchain as an innovation that will bring about as much or more change than the Internet. Most emerging non-currency applications of blockchain are for existing or planned coins for banking and payments, supply chain management, insurance, ride sharing, charity, voting, government, healthcare, energy management, …

Penguin: Blockchain-Based Internet Computer Buries Amazon and Google (10% of their energy, time, and cost) — Autonomous Internet? Not Quite But a Good Start

Blockchain-Based ‘Internet Computer’ Gets $61M from Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, have invested $61 million in Dfinity Foundation, a firm that intends to connect multiple computers together using blockchain to build an “Internet” computer. When the network was tested last year, …

Yoda: Public Blockchain Projects Lack Proper Funding, Ethereum Co-founder [Vitalik Buterin] Has Ideas

Public Blockchain Projects Lack Proper Funding, Ethereum Co-founder Has Ideas Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has recently been an outspoken critic of the lack of funding for public open-source projects. In a day and age where ICOs are raising more money than traditional venture capitalism, a need has arisen for alternative funding models for …