Blockchain

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania is about to issue the first central bank-produced digital coin in the euro zone, part of a project to trial state-backed digital currencies and blockchain technology in everyday use. A worker at the Lithuanian mint holds a silver coin, produced to be exchanged for sets of…

The domain name system (DNS), often referred to as the phonebook of the Internet, is a fundamental part of the Internet’s infrastructure. Created by Dr. Paul Mockapetris in 1983 while he was working at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, it is, of course, that distributed directory whose…

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Despite the constant headlines which label Bitcoin as excessively volatile and unpredictable, it largely remains unweathered by the greater political, economic, and technological fluctuations of our times. The cryptocurrency space as a whole is still viewed as the “wild west” of finance from the outside (quite legitimately I might add).…

Contributed Post Penny stocks have a bad rap among traditional Wall Street investors and traders, and with good reason. They trade on Pink Sheets or the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB) exchanges that don’t require them to make statutory filings with the SEC. Hence, you’ll most likely be making your trading/investment…

Failing rental car company Hertz‘s latest Hail Mary might be its most dastardly yet: Exploit newly-found popularity among Robinhood traders to sell $1 billion worth of potentially worthless stock. Hertz, the second-largest car rental firm in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 22 citing a global collapse…

Img source: unsplash.com There is a secure connection between blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Blockchain technology is a sort of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that assist peer to peer transactions safely and authentically without including a centralized party. It is a single incorruptible database that consistently records and timestamps transactions sequence.…

fotofrog/Getty Images In these difficult times, we’ve made a number of our coronavirus articles free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. Big data is perhaps the most powerful asset we have in solving big problems these…

Many consumers may have heard of blockchain technology, especially in relation to cryptocurrency. However, they may not be aware of its full potential and impact across industries. Blockchain has the potential to simplify and add greater security to data management, and since its inception, this technology has quietly been changing…

Guest Post by Marilynn Schwartz What are the most promising pockets of opportunity in the gaming industry? Getty The gaming industry, which exceeded $150 billion and reached over 2.5 billion gamers in 2019, is big, and everyone knows it. So what are the most promising pockets of opportunity in an…