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qz.com April 17, 2018
Blockchain will be a great tool for African entrepreneurs, but only if we make it our own

As an African social entrepreneur in the technology industry, I am forced than most to think in terms of “whole systems”. Not a single technology I have worked on has ever been deployable without building a whole ecosystem afresh.
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medium.com April 17, 2018
The future will be tokenized: how blockchain will free you to control your financial destiny

These are big dreams, but they can gain momentum with small cultural shifts. I’m passionate about emerging technologies like AI, machine learning and bots not just in a nerdy, code-centric way, but because of what they represent.
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digitaltrends.com April 16, 2018
Blockchain will turn gaming into a career, and give power to the players

Video games are more than a game. They are, at different times for different people, a challenge, a business, a lifestyle, or all the above.
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researchly.leobosankic.com April 16, 2018
Decentralized applications – “experimenting with blockchain” is more than tech

Many blockchain startups, offer solutions decentralized solutions of existing products. This can, for instance, be observed in social networks, video hosting and music streaming, and marketplaces and shopping apps.
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techcrunch.com April 17, 2018
A16Z and Founders Fund sink $28M into IRL asset blockchain Harbor

Harbor helps businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens that represent ownership of real-world assets like real estate, fine art, company equity, and investment funds. This “tokenization” might sound boring, but it could be a big business that unlocks trading of illiquid property.
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entrepreneur.com April 17, 2018
8 Influential Women Making Headlines in Blockchain

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about nine influential women in blockchain who received a lot of praise and positive feedback. So I decided to write a follow-up post with a new list. The latest tech boom has revolved around blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
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cointelegraph.com April 17, 2018
Data, Security, Insurance: How Blockchain Is Disrupting The Health Industry

The health industry’s potential for Blockchain has been outlined numerous times, and new startups continue to emerge in 2018.
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infoq.com April 17, 2018
Book Review: Building Blockchain Projects

"Building Blockchain Projects", by Narayan Prusty and published by Packt, is an introductory book aimed at developers who have some experience with programming (especially in Javascript) and an interest in cryptocurrencies and related technology.
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marketwatch.com April 16, 2018
Can blockchain technology live up to the hype? Barclays analysts say no

To some, blockchain is a potential game-changing innovation that could disrupt and replace traditional payment and information-recording systems.
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coindesk.com April 17, 2018
Blockchain Taps Former Goldman Exec for Institutional Investor Push

Blockchain, a cryptocurrency wallet and data provider based in San Francisco, has hired a former Goldman Sachs executive as head of institutional sales and strategy.
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forbes.com January 24, 2017
A Complete Beginner's Guide To Blockchain

You may have heard the term ‘blockchain’ and dismissed it as a fad, a buzzword, or even technical jargon. But I believe blockchain is a technological advance that will have wide-reaching implications that will not just transform the financial services but many other businesses and industries.
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hbr.org March 3, 2017
Business in the Era of Blockchain

How technology is transforming transactions.
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cnet.com February 12, 2018
Blockchain explained: It builds trust when you need it most

This is part of "Blockchain Decoded," a series looking at the impact of blockchain, bitcoin and cryptocurrency on our lives. These days, we're having a harder and harder time trusting each other.
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inc.com April 5, 2018
Blockchain Is the Future, But It's Confusing. Here's an Explanation in Plain English

You keep hearing the word and it isn't going away. You admit defeat of your lack of knowledge and find yourself Googling "What is blockchain?" Decentralized, tokens, ledgers....you'll quickly find yourself down a rabbit hole of even more confusion.
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nytimes.com April 9, 2018
Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain

SAN FRANCISCO — Worried about someone hacking the next election? Bothered by the way Facebook and Equifax coughed up your personal information? The technology industry has an answer called the blockchain — even for the problems the industry helped to create.
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inc.com April 17, 2017
Will Blockchain Technology Be the Ultimate Disrupter? Harvard Says Yes

"Imagine a technology that could preserve our freedom to choose for ourselves and our families, to express these choices in the world, and to control our own destiny, no matter where we lived or were born.
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inc.com March 5, 2018
9 Industries That Will Soon Be Disrupted By Blockchain

Let's face it. Many people are resistant to technological changes in both their personal lives and at the office. However, what they often lack is the vision to see how the new technology they are resisting will improve their lives in the future.
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forbes.com May 27, 2016
How Blockchain Technology Could Change The World

There’s a lot of hype in the air about blockchain technology at the moment. A recent World Economic Forum report predicts that by 2025 10% of GDP will be stored on blockchains or blockchain related technology.
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arstechnica.com November 6, 2016
What is a blockchain, and why is it growing in popularity?

Last year, Ripple Labs, creator of the virtual currency XRP, was fined $0.7 million (~£540,000) by the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for violating regulations concerning money laundering.
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fool.com January 10, 2018
The Basics of Blockchain Technology, Explained in Plain English

Historically, no asset has been a greater source of wealth creation than the stock market. Throughout its history, stocks have returned an average of 7% per year, inclusive of dividend reinvestment, and when adjusted for inflation.
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youtube.com
Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes

Over the past decade, an alternative digital paradigm has slowly been taking shape at the edges of the internet.This new paradigm is the blockchain. After incubating through millions of Bitcoin transactions and a host of developer projects, it is now on the tips of tongues of CEOs and CTOs, startup
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blog.ycombinator.com January 9, 2018
Building for the Blockchain

If you’re here, we assume that you’re a developer/hacker who’s intrigued by the blockchain. You’re convinced that you understand how it works and now you’re itching to figure out what the blockchain means for you and your developer skill set.
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cbinsights.com March 2, 2018
What Is Blockchain Technology?

Few people understand what it is, but Wall Street banks, IT organizations, and consultants are buzzing about blockchain technology. It's hard to remove blockchain from Bitcoin, so we'll start with Bitcoin as we work to understand this technology's potential. Bitcoin. Blockchain. Cryptocurrencies.
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raconteur.net June 27, 2016
The future of blockchain in 8 charts

Canadian writers and researchers, Alex and Don Tapscott, authors of the new book Blockchain Revolution, explain that blockchain goes way beyond the second coming of the internet.
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thenextweb.com November 9, 2017
How blockchain will change major industries

While much of the discussion around blockchain has surrounded bitcoin and its ups and downs, corporations and businesses are quickly waking up to the possibility of using blockchain to secure and improve large volumes of transactions as well.
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techcrunch.com September 19, 2016
How blockchain will grow beyond bitcoin

Since its advent in 2009, bitcoin’s decentralized, broker-less and secure mechanism to send money across the world has steadily risen in popularity and adoption.
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moneyandstate.com October 30, 2015
It’s All About the Blockchain

Blockchain is so hot right now. 2015 was the year the narrative changed. Bitcoin is out, blockchain is in. Attend any financial conference and you’ll hear panels about the brilliance of private distributed ledgers.
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joel.mn November 25, 2014
The Blockchain Application Stack

Last week I led a workshop at NYU’s Bitcoin Hackathon, HackBit, where I talked about Bitcoin as a Protocol, alternative uses for the Blockchain, and a little bit about the challenges and opportunities that lie therein.
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hackernoon.com August 23, 2017
Blockchains don’t scale. Not today, at least. But there’s hope.

The first Bitcoin paper was first released in 2008. My excitement about the potential of blockchain technology has been building ever since. Decentralized digital currency, once just a far-fetched goal, is finally making inroads into the mainstream.
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zdnet.com May 22, 2017
Blockchain explained in plain English

After spending two years researching blockchain and the evolution of advanced ledger technologies, I still find a great spectrum of understanding across my clients and business at large about blockchain.
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forbes.com June 13, 2016
Blockchain Is Not Going To Change The World

I’m fed up with the hype around blockchain. It’s not rocket science, it’s not revolutionary and it’s not even that smart. And it’s not going to change the world.
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qz.com January 4, 2018
Ten cryptocurrency predictions for 2018 from the co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute

A year ago, Alex Tapscott (my co-author of Blockchain Revolution) and I made some predictions for 2017. At the end of the year we compared those predictions to what had actually occurred. Overall they stood up well.
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medium.com July 4, 2017
The missing concept to understand blockchain

I had a breakthrough in my understanding of blockchain when I heard someone explain that conceptually it is NOT a network of computers. A blockchain IS a computer.
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entrepreneur.com March 15, 2018
12 Startups Utilizing Blockchain Technology in New Ways

Cryptocurrency created quite the buzz this past year. Although the technology has been around for a few years, 2017 was the year it really took off. Bitcoin, the first application of cryptocurrency technology, hit $20,000 a coin, while coins like Ethereum also saw their prices increase.
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cbinsights.com December 17, 2017
What Is Ethereum?

We dive into one of the world's most popular cryptocurrencies, from a simple explanation of what Ethereum is to some of the currency's uses and drawbacks (and what it has to do with cats). Think of Ethereum as bitcoin’s multi-talented, more versatile younger sibling.
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medium.com April 5, 2018
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions.
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techspot.com February 5, 2018
Blockchain Explained: How It Works, Who Cares and What Its Future May Hold

Is Blockchain the Swiss Army Knife to All of Our Cyber-Insecurities? Best known as the immutable database that runs underneath cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, blockchain is poised to play a critical role in every industry imaginable as businesses seek ways to cash in on the distributed
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hbr.org March 6, 2018
The Truth About Blockchain

We’ve all heard that blockchain will revolutionize business, but it’s going to take a lot longer than many people claim. Like TCP/IP (on which the internet was built), blockchain is a foundational technology that will require broad coordination.
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mckinsey.com December 9, 2017
How can creative industries benefit from blockchain?

Five forces of blockchain technology could affect the creative economy. Here are some of the risks and challenges to overcome. Many readers will be familiar with blockchain as the underlying enabling technology developed for Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency.
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dev.to December 14, 2017
Trying to understand blockchain by making one!

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies made a lot of noise lately. I have been rather disappointed by the turn the cryptocurrencies took, from an amazing concept to what seems just another way to make quick money ( or not... ).
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fastcompany.com December 23, 2016
This Blockchain Thing Is Really Happening, Time To Learn What It Is: 2016 In Review

Blockchain technology was developed for the bitcoin virtual currency, but increasingly it’s being used to track and authenticate all kinds of assets, from stocks and bonds to electrons.
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blogs.wsj.com February 2, 2016
CIO Explainer: What Is Blockchain?

Known by many as the technology underpinning the bitcoin digital currency, blockchain has acquired a new identity in the enterprise.
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lifehacker.com January 16, 2018
What Is Blockchain?

All of a sudden, blockchain is everywhere. The technology, which was invented in 2008 to power Bitcoin when it launched a year later, is being used for everything from copyright protection to sexual consent (yes, really).
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hackernoon.com June 29, 2017
WTF is The Blockchain?

Unless you’re hiding under the rock, I am sure you’d have heard of Bitcoins and Blockchain. After all, they are the trending and media’s favorite topics these days — the buzzwords of the year.
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theguardian.com December 24, 2017
Bitcoin is a bubble, but the technology behind it could transform the world

Humanity’s earliest, truly transformative general purpose technologies were the ability to cross-fertilise plants and cross-breed animals. Suddenly, it made more sense to farm than to hunt and gather.
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medium.com February 4, 2017
What is this Blockchain Thing?

The worst part is not that they don’t understand each other but that they think they do understand each other! Here, I’d like to offer a few basic definitions from my keynote speech that I hope will help people get on the same page and collaborate.
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medium.com July 12, 2017
Blockchain Commons: The End of All Corporate Business Models

Blockchain technology is all the rage right now for geeks, anarchists, gamblers and corporate executives, with a vast spectrum of motivations and visions for future use cases.
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versionone.vc September 12, 2017
Why the Blockchain is so disruptive for venture capital

These days not a single meeting with a fellow VC goes by without talking about Blockchain and how to invest in this space. We are all a bit puzzled by how quickly this market has evolved.
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blockgeeks.com August 21, 2017
What is Cryptoeconomics? The Ultimate Beginners Guide

Join over 115,115 Members Angel Investors, Startups & Blockchain developers...
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medium.freecodecamp.org July 10, 2017
Blockchain: the revolution we’re not ready for

Imagine you didn’t need to trust a stranger to make a deal with them. Imagine you didn’t need to trust your bank to deposit your money there. Imagine you didn’t need to trust your government to know it was being just and fair. What would happen?
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hbr.org April 5, 2017
A Brief History of Blockchain

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. Just think about how much smartphones have changed the way we live and work. It used to be that when people were out of the office, they were gone, because a telephone was tied to a place, not to a person.
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shift.newco.co July 11, 2017
Graphic: Blockchain for Every Industry

Blockchain technology has the potential to upend the way every industry manages its information and data, not only financial services. Imagine being able to track shipments through your supply chain with ease, down to the individual package or even component level.
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thenextweb.com August 13, 2017
How blockchain can build communities completely free of hierarchy

This post was co-written by Jordan Odinsky and Mohit Mamoria. In the past few months, blockchain technology has blown up. While a year ago blockchain was an unknown side note synonymous with Bitcoin, today there are dozens of applications making their way into mainstream media.
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medium.com December 15, 2017
The great ICO freeze is beginning. What does it mean for crypto in 2018?

This is a lightly edited version of my tweetstorm on ICOs which went viral. Mostly I just added links. The recent Munchee ICO shutdown is a good example of what’s here now, and what’s to come.
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forbes.com January 10, 2018
Blockchain Is Changing Our World: Here Are The Best Practical Examples Of How It Is Used In 2018

The potential of blockchain technology to disrupt nearly every industry in some way cannot be dismissed even though there are still several hurdles to overcome before we see its full transformative impact.
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medium.com June 1, 2016
How Does the Blockchain Work?

The blockchain technology is probably the best invention since the internet itself. It allows value exchange without the need for trust or for a central authority. Imagine you and I bet $50 on tomorrow’s weather in San Francisco. I bet it will be sunny, you that it will rain.
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medium.com December 4, 2017
How does the Blockchain Work? (Part 1)

Looking for a New Cryptocurrency? Check out the introduction to Metabase Want to launch your own ICO? apply now at Token Deck.
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degoes.net February 13, 2018
Everything You Know About the Blockchain Is Wrong

You don’t understand blockchain. Well, maybe you do. But if you don’t see what all the fuss is about, wonder why anyone uses blockchain technology instead of Postgres, or think Tor figured out decentralization long before Bitcoin, then I have some news for you:
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zdnet.com February 15, 2017
How it works: Blockchain explained in 500 words

Blockchain is an algorithm and distributed data structure designed to manage electronic cash without any central administrator.
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bloomberg.com May 19, 2016
Blockchain Goes Beyond Crypto-Currency

Starting next September, some logistics companies in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia will begin outfitting shipping containers with a soda-can-size device that will beam out the cargo’s location, how much it’s vibrating as it travels, and its ambient temperature.
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medium.com October 11, 2017
Blockchain Is A New Model That Makes The Existing Model Obsolete

Some say it’s the biggest innovation in finance since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping during the Renaissance.
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hackernoon.com January 15, 2018
Building a Blockchain: The Grey Paper

The blockchain hype train is at an all time high! There are countless articles and news stories calling it the greatest invention since the internet. On the other hand, there is an equally large camp saying that although the tech is great, there is no real use case.
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coindesk.com June 4, 2016
Making Sense of Blockchain Smart Contracts

Josh Stark is a lawyer and head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, a blockchain consulting firm and development group. In this op-ed, Ledger Labs head of operations Josh Stark takes a deep dive into the concept of smart contracts.
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strategy-business.com January 11, 2016
A Strategist’s Guide to Blockchain

An expensive work of art changes hands. Neither the buyer nor the seller is named publicly, but the exchange is verified, the provenance of the painting travels with it, and the artwork is automatically insured against theft.
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venturebeat.com January 22, 2017
Blockchain’s brilliant approach to cybersecurity

Hackers can shut down entire networks, tamper with data, lure unwary users into cybertraps, steal and spoof identities, and carry out other devious attacks by leveraging centralized repositories and single points of failure.
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medium.com July 8, 2017
A Brief History of Blockchain: An Investor’s Perspective

After many friends and family members asked me to explain my investments in blockchain assets, I decided to write an email. That email turned into this blog post. The following post is intended for the uninitiated but I hope those familiar with the concepts will benefit from this lucid overview.
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hbr.org March 13, 2017
Global Supply Chains Are About to Get Better, Thanks to Blockchain

When an E.coli outbreak at Chipotle Mexican Grill outlets left 55 customers ill, in 2015, the news stories, shutdowns, and investigations shattered the restaurant chain’s reputation. Sales plummeted, and Chipotle’s share price dropped 42%, to a three-year low, where it has languished ever since.
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deloitte.com November 24, 2017
Blockchain explained... in under 100 words

Surely it's more complicated? Yes - but as a concept, not much more. Complexities come in the implementation and the journey to realize value from such implementations. The above example will, of course, be overly simplistic for some – but may be a starting point for others.
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tbray.org May 13, 2017
I Don’t Believe in Blockchain

There are conferences and foundations and consortia and keynotes; it’s the new hotness! But I looked into blockchain technologies carefully and I’ve ended up thinking it’s an overpromoted niche sideshow. First off, I should say that I like blockchain, conceptually.
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hbr.org March 2, 2017
How Blockchain Applications Will Move Beyond Finance

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin.
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squawker.org October 25, 2017
Blockchain Just Became Obsolete. The Future is Hashgraph

Swirlds is a software platform that has developed the hashgraph consensus algorithm: an entirely new distributed ledger technology that is much more cost-effective (no proof-of-work), 50,000 times the speed, safer (Byzantine), more efficient (no stale blocks) and mathematically fairer than the bloc
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joecoin.com February 13, 2015
Crypto 2.0--And Other Misconceptions

I've been hearing that more and more from prominent tech visionaries. And it's so incredibly wrong. But before I begin, I want to make sure I'm interpreting it the way people actually mean it. To wit, when I hear the above, I interpret it more precisely as:
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zdnet.com February 15, 2018
Executive's guide to implementing blockchain technology

Blockchains are one of the most important technologies to emerge in recent years, with many experts believing they will change our world in the next two decades as much as the internet has over the last two.
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smalsresearch.be May 10, 2017
BlockChain vs Event Driven Architecture

Blockchains are very much the hype, gaining traction even within the enterprise technology portfolio; they seem to be all but a panacea to "fix" every new application that comes to mind.
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bloomberg.com September 1, 2016
Maybe Blockchain Really Does Have Magical Powers

Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin and other digital currencies, isn’t quite as novel or omnipotent as many have advertised it to be. That doesn’t mean, however, that it can’t do wonders in the world of finance.
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wired.co.uk December 24, 2017
How to explain blockchain to your family over the Christmas turkey

It’s got stiff competition, but ‘blockchain’ might just be the 2017 tech buzzword of the year.
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avc.com May 2, 2016
The Business Blockchain – AVC

I’ve been reading this weekend. It was written by AVC community member William Mougayar. This book started out as a Kickstarter project which I blogged about at the time. If you backed that project you will get a copy of this book. If not, you might want to get a copy on Amazon.
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inc.com October 10, 2017
6 Industries That Could Be Forever Changed by Blockchain

There are several reasons why an industry needs to be disrupted. Consumer demands and expectations change over the years and it becomes essential for there to be a shakeup within an industry.
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venturebeat.com September 9, 2017
How blockchain will finally convert you: Control over your own data

In the past few years, blockchain has developed an unrivaled reputation as the next big thing for the decentralized internet.
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medium.freecodecamp.org March 29, 2017
From “What is Blockchain?” to building a blockchain in less than an hour

A blockchain is a digital ledger of records that’s arranged in chunks of data called blocks. These blocks then link with one another through a cryptographic validation known as a hashing function. Linked together, these blocks form an unbroken chain — a blockchain.
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vitalik.ca June 9, 2017
Analyzing Token Sale Models

Note: I mention the names of various projects below only to compare and contrast their token sale mechanisms; this should NOT be taken as an endorsement or criticism of any specific project as a whole.
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venturebeat.com February 13, 2015
How blockchain technology could decentralize not just currency, but everything

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural Cryptoeconomicon conference (centered around the O’Reilly Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference).
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medium.com December 1, 2017
The convergence of AI and Blockchain: what’s the deal?

It is undeniable that AI and blockchain are two of the major technologies that are catalyzing the pace of innovation and introducing radical shifts in every industry.
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letstalkpayments.com
Know more about Blockchain: Overview, Technology, Application Areas and Use Cases

“Blockchain technology continues to redefine not only how the exchange sector operates, but the global financial economy as a whole.” – Bob Greifeld, Chief Executive of NASDAQ “In financial markets there’s always a mechanism to correct an attack.
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technologyreview.com November 9, 2017
A Mind-Bending Cryptographic Trick Promises to Take Blockchains Mainstream

There are, believe it or not, many among us who remain skeptical that blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum will ever have much of an impact on the mainstream tech world.
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fastcompany.com December 27, 2017
2018 Is Going To Be A Massive Year For Blockchains, The Tech Behind Bitcoins

The word “bitcoin” was a top search on Google this year, as everyone who didn’t understand the cryptocurrency (which was most of us) rushed to learn how it works and how they could make money off of it. Some people did make money, at least on paper.
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pwc.com
Making sense of bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain

Blockchain also has potential applications far beyond bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Blockchain is, quite simply, a digital, decentralized ledger that keeps a record of all transactions that take place across a peer-to-peer network.
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techcrunch.com October 3, 2017
The new age of ICOs is here, and it’s not based on Ethereum

ICOs are said to be the new way to raise money. We’ve seen companies raising $100 million, $156 million, $185 million and even $232 million by selling tokens that will be used in the protocol that these companies have promised to build using this money.
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oreilly.com January 16, 2015
Understanding the blockchain

Start reading Blockchain, by Melanie Swan, to discover the blockchain's disruptive potential.
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venturebeat.com July 30, 2017
When blockchain meets big data, the payoff will be huge

If there is a “sweet spot” for blockchain, it will likely be the ability to turn insights and questions into assets. Blockchains will give you greater confidence in the integrity of the data you see.
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yourstory.com July 12, 2017
The ultimate 3500-word guide in plain English to understand Blockchain

Bitcoin and Blockchain are the buzzwords of the year. If you ever find someone feeling left behind and wondering, “WTH is the Blockchain?”, you know you can direct them to this guide. Unless you’re hiding under the rock, I am sure you’d have heard of Bitcoins and Blockchain.
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medium.com December 22, 2017
Designing for Blockchain

Blockchain has arrived — not just in the technological sense, but in the cultural one. We know this because our sixty-something-year-old mothers have started to ask us about it. Also, because it’s popping up in Dilbert comics.
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thenextweb.com September 6, 2017
How Blockchain is changing the way we do business

Blockchain technology is gradually transforming peer-to-peer interactions in the digital world, disrupting traditional processes across almost all industries. Corporations including IBM, WalMart and Nestlé now look toward this new technology to improve on current systems.
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venturebeat.com March 28, 2015
4 ways Blockchain technology will change the world

While Bitcoin has received the lion’s share of attention since its conception, recently the Blockchain — the distributed public database used to record Bitcoin transactions — has just begun entering the spotlight for enabling some important capabilities outside of Bitcoin.
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weforum.org October 11, 2017
We need to figure out how to use the blockchain properly. This is why

It’s not technology or regulation holding back the blockchain - software that stores and transfers value or data across the internet - we just haven’t figured out the next big use-case.
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thenextweb.com November 1, 2017
The ultimate, 3500-word, plain English guide to blockchain

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard of Bitcoin and blockchain. After all, they are one of the most trending topics these days — the ultimate buzzwords of the year.
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hackeducation.com April 7, 2016
The Blockchain for Education: An Introduction

Is blockchain poised to be “the next big thing” in education? This has become a question I hear with increasing frequency about a technology that, up until quite recently, was primarily associated with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
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scientificamerican.com June 23, 2016
Blockchain Enhances Privacy, Security and Conveyance of Data

Editor's Note: This article is part of a special report on the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016 produced by the World Economic Forum.
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medium.com July 16, 2017
Let’s Build the Tiniest Blockchain

Note: Part 2 of this piece can be found here. Although some think blockchain is a solution waiting for problems, there’s no doubt that this novel technology is a marvel of computing. But, what exactly is a blockchain?
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project-syndicate.org March 5, 2018
The Blockchain Pipe Dream

Even after a sharp correction earlier this year, the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has remained unsustainably high, and techno-libertarians have continued to insist that blockchain technologies will revolutionize the way business is done.
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ft.com November 1, 2015
Technology: Banks seek the key to blockchain

It doesn’t feel like a revolutionary moment. A member of a small team from the Swiss bank UBS, holed up on the 42nd floor of London’s Canary Wharf, taps a screen and a bond is sold by a company called ABC to an investor called XYZ.
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thoughtworks.com August 18, 2016
Blockchain: Under the Hood

Blockchain is increasingly mentioned in various business circles, but people often lack a concrete understanding of what it is, particularly when it comes to its underlying technology. This article is the first of two which will focus on blockchain from a technical perspective.
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