Blockchain

The Tribler client has been around for nearly 15 years. During that time it has developed into the only truly decentralized BitTorrent client out there. Even if all torrent sites were shut down today, Tribler users would still be able to find and add new con…

Imagine a startup with $12 billion of revenue, 125%+ YoY revenue growth (two years in a row), and Apple-esque gross margins (30-50%). Without knowing anything else about the business, what would you value it at? $50 billion? $100 billion? More? That's Apple's…

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Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Taking the easy route almost always causes unnecessary difficulties and limits future opportunities. A common theme in the digital asset space is for businesses to seek ju…

30-second summary: IAB Tech Lab launches new guide, intended to help organizations assess blockchain for various kinds of ad-related shared ledger solutions, such as measurement, reconciliation, transparency, contract consensus and ad delivery valida…

A New Year’s letter from Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda outlines the trends the company expects to play a part in 2020, noting some particular developments it is keeping a watchful eye in the new year. In that letter, he notes that 2020 is particularly …

Almost 50 per cent of American millennials expect all products to be GMO-free, 43 per cent expect organic, 64 per cent sustainable and 56 per cent recyclable, according to a survey conducted by SONAR. This year will see a diversity of players converge from v…

When Ken Brook founded the blockchain ad-tech startup MetaX in early 2017, the notion of applying the decentralized ledger system behind cryptocurrency to the ills of digital advertising was still relatively novel. A prolonged rally in the price of bitcoin ha…

Crypto in 2020s: at least one blockchain will reach 1B users, a separate world of fully-decentralized, little-regulated crypto-to-crypto innovation will emerge (Brian Armstrong/The Coinbase Blog)

Two young Mongolian children play with the goats that provide cashmere. Photo provided by Convergence.tech With wild price changes in cryptocurrencies, sometimes it can be helpful to get back to use cases: areas where distributed nodes and decentralization…