Tag: blockchain
How Blockchain Can Create Self-Sovereign Identities
By Jacob Andra, SOMAWho are you? Not in some existential sense, but as a social actor? Outside of your family and childhood friends, how can anyo ...
What Is A Smart Contract?
by Ben DicksonIn 2009, the inventor(s) of the famous cryptocurrency bitcoin proved that there was a way to exchange money online without having t ...
Smart Ports: Unblocking The Biggest Barrier To Nigeria’s Economic Growth
by Marleze van Loggerenberg
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy is struggling with ports infrastructure that simply can’t keep up with demand.
Maj ...
IBM To Use AI, Blockchain, IoT To Fight Natural Disasters
IBM wants to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) to solve one of the most pressing societal issues of our time: ...
Why Should Cloud Companies Care About Blockchain?
by Ben Dickson
The struggles of the blockchain industry are, after a fashion, reminiscent of the latest storylines in HBO’s TV series Silicon V ...
Top 5 Experts Talk about Bitcoin, Blockchain & ICO’s
by FX Empire
Yes, cryptocurrencies, again. It’s the talk of the day, a live history and, stay in your seat, but perhaps an end of the financial and ...
Four Questions Public Sector Should be Asking About Blockchain
by Anne Thompson, product development at Thomson Reuters
Twenty-seven million. That’s the number of search results for “blockchain”.
Six million ...
Using Blockchain to Secure the ‘Internet of Things’
by Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
The world is full of connected devices – and more are coming. In 2017, there were an esti ...
Is ContractNet the World’s First Global Exchange of IoT Data?
Hong Kong-based ContractNet is a new technology company aiming to create a systemized framework for sharing the Internet of Things (IoT) data, and a p ...
Guarding against the possible Spectre in every machine
by Scott Shackelford, Indiana University
Security vulnerabilities in technology extend well beyond problems with software. Earlier this month, rese ...