A conversation with Andreas M. Antonopoulos, author of Mastering Bitcoin and The Internet of Money, one of the world’s leading experts on bitcoin and blockchain. I met Andreas M. Antonopoulos at the inaugural edition of Singularity University Canada Summit in Toronto earlier this fall, where he was breaking down bitcoin/blockchain for a large crowd of business leaders, […]

Web 3.0 developer Blockstack has rolled out out a roadmap to decentralize its structure on Friday, announcing its plan to develop a number of entities that will collectively form a wider distributed community. Co-founders Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali wrote in a blog post that the company wants to ensure that its corporate governance is decentralized, similarly to how […]

Microsoft is moving to turn blockchain-based decentralized identity from a lofty aspiration into a business line. In a white paper posted this week, the software giant says it intends to develop two products designed to give consumers greater control of their personal data – long the Holy Grail of many technologists in the blockchain space and adjacent industries. One such product […]

Since I’ve started my blockchain journey, what I found absolutely mind-blowing was realizing the enormous impact that this technology could make to people’s lives. Like many, I see the blockchain technology as the next generation of the Internet, our second chance of accomplishing what we’ve set our self to achieve with the Net, but didn’t really […]

Blockchain is almost everywhere these days. There is an undeniable hype around it and only the time will show us in which fields this technology will manage to survive. One of the most cited applications of the Blockchain technology is smart contracts, introduced with the Ethereum blockchain, then copied and used in different blockchain-based platforms. […]

By Laura Desmond Trading can be nerve-racking at its best, terrifying at its worst The user experience for trading cryptocurrency is not conducive to getting new users actively involved. There is no shortage of horror stories regarding hacked centralized exchanges, sending funds to the wrong address, and losing private keys. Some of the biggest problems are […]

By Patrick Hall I had lunch recently with an investor who expressed frustration about founders of startups and scale-ups. They are not a fund partner, nor VC or from the Private Equity world. No, they actually built a business of value and lived it for the whole journey through to an ultimate sale and cash out […]

By David Devils Do your homework and get to know these six things about the people you’re going to be borrowing money from. When you’ve hung out with company founders as much as I have, you’ve inevitably heard the following line: “I have a big meeting coming up.” Because the entrepreneur got the appointment, he’s […]

By Adrian McDermott Digital displays are part of everyday life. We come across them when we step out of homes. They are getting ubiquitous by the day. Let’s try and understand how interactive digital signage at retail destinations helps both buyers and sellers. No longer are such displays viewed as an attractive or gimmicky marketing […]

There’s been a lot of talk about security tokens recently. But what is a security token in the first place? How do they work? And how might they impact your job or business? That is, why should you care about them? Before diving into the rest of these questions, it makes sense to first start with: what […]