The blockchain technology is one that essentially acts as a public database of all transactions taking place on its system and whose potential is yet to be unlocked. The digital cryptocurrency world has been abuzz lately with the entry of a new player. Ethereum as a platform and Ether as the digital currency linked to […]
The Ethereum blockchain is being used by Transactive Grid to log energy created by solar panels so that it can be sold to neighbors connected to the grid. Two Brooklyn residents used the Ethereum blockchain today to facilitate a transaction that let one sell energy directly to the other. The neighbors accomplished the exchange thanks to […]
Banking consortium R3CEV is building a blockchain-like platform designed to work without a central controller while still working with banks and regulators. Consortium startup R3CEV today announced it is working on a distributed ledger that might otherwise be considered a blockchain, but which the company made perfectly clear is anything but. Quelle: R3 Announces New […]
An experiment with blockchain technology to assess its viability for future transparent transactions has been proven by Bank of Ireland and Deloitte. David Tighe, head of innovation at Bank of Ireland, explained that the trial took place to show how blockchain technology can be used by financial institutions on top of traditional legacy systems. Blockchain […]
That’s Right. You Read the tagline correctly: The first fully open source, IPFS and Ethereum-based, international marketplace’s crowdsale will go live this August. It shares a lot of functionality with OpenBazaar, uses Slock.it’s DAO model, and it’s built with security and privacy at the top of its feature list. The contract, Mist Plugin and description […]
An Ethereum startup founder discusses challenges facing next-generation technology applications for autonomous blockchain-based companies. An Ethereum-based distributed autonomous organization (DAO) is a blockchain entity that operates according to a set of pre-defined rules that the members of the DAO help maintain and that they leverage to make collective decisions. A DAO (which differs from other […]
An environmental researcher modeled pessimistic and optimistic scenarios for Bitcoin’s energy consumption over the next few years. Quelle: Bitcoin Could Consume as Much Electricity as Denmark by 2020
How blockchains are laying the groundwork for the next century’s economic growth – not only in the finance sector, but across society as a whole.
Quelle: PwC Report: While Fintech Disrupts Banks, the Blockchain Disrupts Fintech | Bitcoin Magazine
Der Bitcoin war das Nonplusultra, wenn es um digitales Geld ging. Der Konkurrent Ether könnte das aber nun ändern – auch weil er mehr kann als Bitcoin. Ether übersprang jetzt eine magische Hürde. Quelle: Das ist der neue große Rivale des Bitcoin