Tag: blockchain
We’ve Been Building Something BOLD
Posted by Clive Reffell | Nov 20, 2018 | News | 0
Banks in a Blockchain Future
Posted by Shay Hershkovitz | Nov 8, 2018 | blockchain, Crowd Finance | 0
Day 3 of CSW Global 2018 Shows How Organizations Can Better Serve the Individual
by Damon Brown | Oct 29, 2018
Individual and organization needs, particularly within government, can seem at odds, though Day 3 of our CSW Global 2018 conference on October 26 emphasized the importance of them evolving together. At its best, the organization...
Read MoreHow Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge
by Damon Brown | Oct 17, 2018
The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies...
Read MoreQ&A with Oren Alazraki, CEO of Horizon State
by Clive Reffell | Oct 9, 2018
Horizon State has leveraged blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger technology to redesign the way that opinion is solicited, votes are cast, and collaborative decisions are made. Horizon State reshapes interactions between...
Read MoreHorizon State Blockchain Empowering the Vote and Our Philanthropy
by Damon Brown | Sep 19, 2018
How do you represent the crowd? For millennia, there have been many techniques to figure out the majority needs. Picture people raising their hands at an event, or clapping to choose the best choice, or submitting tiny pieces of...
Read MoreBlockchain Democracy: Fixing a Wrecked System
by Shay Hershkovitz | Sep 12, 2018
Crowdsourcing is a new term, possibly coined in 2005 by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson to describe how businesses were using the internet to outsource work to the crowd. In reality, crowdsourcing has been around for thousands of...
Read MoreBTC to USD Goes Up – Upward Mode is On?
by Mary Ann Callahan | Sep 4, 2018
The Bitcoin price is ballooning again, but this time we’re all a little hesitant to get excited. After so many price pumps quickly followed by price dumps, it’s hard to know if the price will continue going upward this time. All...
Read MoreBlockchain, Digital Assets, and the Changing World of Finance
by Noam Levenson | Jul 11, 2018
Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies provide a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining, and securing decentralized networks. The emergence of these networks has enabled a whole range of decentralized...
Read MoreFintech Disruptors Create New Work Opportunities
by Clive Reffell | May 3, 2018
In an era of major disruption to the banking industry, the traditional model has changed. On one hand, specialist apps snipe at the edges of the one-stop-shop service that main street banks aim to provide to meet all and any of...
Read More67 INSANE FACTS ABOUT BITCOIN
by Epi Ludvik | Jan 19, 2018
[INFOGRAPHIC – UPDATED JANUARY 2018] Bitcoin is a virtual currency that uses Blockchain technology for secure payments and storing money electronically, without requiring a bank or a person’s name. Satoshi Nakamoto created this...
Read MoreEnergy Sustainability and Decentralization (Part II)
by Clive Reffell | Nov 23, 2017
In Part 1 we looked at decentralization of electricity generation, largely due to the availability of affordable equipment for domestic-scale production from renewable sources. Part 2 looks at the distribution side of the...
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