blockchain Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

In Blockchain We Trust

by Noam Levenson | Feb 28, 2019 |

Tech headlines today herald the potential impact of blockchain technology on industries such as crowdsourcing, transportation, and inter-company collaboration (supply chains). We’re inundated today with projects targeting these...

We’ve Been Building Something BOLD

by Clive Reffell | Nov 20, 2018 |

Over the last five years, Crowdsourcing Week has held conferences with some of the world’s largest tech pioneers and entrepreneurs. We’ve just finished our fifth global conference, which was last month in Washington DC....

Banks in a Blockchain Future

by Shay Hershkovitz | Nov 8, 2018 |

The banking industry has always been perceived as a bedrock of economic stability, but it is experiencing disruption at an increasing pace. A sea change in finance is being driven by technology, which is both expanding service...

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...

How 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...

Q&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...

Horizon 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...

Blockchain 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...

BTC 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...

Blockchain, 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...