The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How can Blockchain redefine the relationship between the UK government and citizens? Just last week, the UK government was urged to consider adopting blockchain, with the government’s chief scientist, Sir Mark Walport who argued that using the technology could “redefine the relationship between government and the citizen in terms of data sharing, transparency and trust.”
How Blockchain Technology Might Decentralise Everything (Not Just Currency!) Do you know that blockchain technology could decentralise everything and not just currency? Do you even know what Blockchain is? One example that you just might have heard of is Bitcoin, the online currency. That in itself may not enlighten you to what blockchain is, however. …
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Factom dreams of a new generation of blockchain based voting systems Austin-based Factom have launched various products to assist startups and institutional clients deploy and build blockchain-based applications, including blockchain networks with data management, audit, and compliance systems.
There’s a blockchain for that! The code that secures Bitcoin could also power an alternate Internet. First, though, it has to work. For now, think of it as a way of transferring a digital message from one party to another, where both parties can count on the integrity of the message, even when they don’t …
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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 …
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Linux Foundation blockchain consortium: Digital Asset, IBM, Credits and London Stock Exchange on board Blockchain consortia are becoming all the rage – the latest effort advances under the open source auspices of the Linux Foundation.
The blockchain is a cryptographically secured register. A long, long time ago we used to hook a line printer to important systems and they’d print a subset of their logging to it. An intruder taking over a box could erase the contents of /var/log, but that printout was immutable. The blockchain provides something similar, but …
