Blockchain

In the murky world of crypto and blockchain, taking disputes to a traditional court would either land both the plaintiff and the defendant in jail or confuse the court to the point of total befuddlement. You can just imagine the scenario: “What is a DAO?” “It’s a decentralized autonomous organization,…

Google office Getty Images We are already almost two months into 2020 and the blockchain and crypto space is continuing the upside trajectory from 2019 with interesting and new technology innovations and partnerships. Along with that, the prices of the most popular cryptocurrencies are soaring, recovering from the bottoms dipped…

Flaws in the blockchain app some states plan to use in the 2020 election allow bad actors to alter or cancel someone’s vote or expose their private info. Security researchers have found key flaws in a mobile voting app that some states plan to use in the 2020 election that…

Last June, at a swanky, strobe-lit event in Washington, DC, Brendan Blumer, the 33-year-old CEO of a blockchain company called Block.one, unveiled a new product with Steve Jobs-like theatrics: a social network called Voice. A year earlier, Blumer’s company had raised $4 billion selling a crypto token called EOS. It…

The increasing regulatory burden on public companies is causing deleterious effects. Corporate finance has become more of an art than a reporting of objective facts, and the cost of navigating the SEC's and FASB's rulings has become prohibitive, except for multibillion-revenue companies. Instead of putting capital and manpower to use…

A mobile voting app being used in West Virginia and other states has elementary security flaws that would allow someone to see and intercept votes as they’re transmitted from mobile phones to the voting company’s server, new research reveals. An attacker would also be able to alter the user’s vote…

2020 is the year that enterprise blockchain moves from the Trenches of Deployment and into the mainstream. Which means that, finally, its time to talk about interoperability It's now time to talk about blockchain interoperability Getty If youre not fightin… Read More

FC Barcelona have launced an exclusive blockchain partnership with Chiliz FC Barcelona and Chiliz FC Barcelona have announced a new partnership deal with blockchain sports and entertainment fan engagement platform Chiliz. The news comes just a week after the club’s new digital vision was launched, and it is hoped that…

Everledger founder and CEO Leanne Kemp is now using blockchain to track 900,000 karats of diamonds. Everledger / Hannah Photography With the price of bitcoin more than doubling from $3,400 to $10,000 since last year’s Fintech 50 list, it’s perhaps no surprise to see some of the largest, and most…

Blockchain, Distributed ledger technology, Bitcoin Getty At a time when venture capitalists are shying away from blockchain startups, Paystand, the payments fintech is bucking the trend.  It just closed a $20 million Series B round of funding, bri… Read More