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 Distributed Ledger Technology Corda – CoinDesk
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 technology, which underpins emerging digital, virtual, or cryptocurrencies, consists of blocks that hold timestamped batches of recent valid transactions, which form a chain, with each block reinforcing those preceding it…
Quelle: Bank of Ireland experiments with blockchain technology
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 concepts like a DO) is principally created as a vehicle to achieve or maintain a shared purpose, and that will both receive and distribute funds (often in the form of cryptocurrencies or other blockchain-based tokens of value) and control actions designed to help promote or further the purpose of the DAO.
On the more mundane side, with no legal identity, owning physical assets, signing contracts with non-blockchain companies (real-world suppliers, contractors, etc) and tax issues can be difficult.
For example, it is not known:
Quelle: Key Questions Every DAO Founder Should Ask – CoinDesk
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
The thesis behind the experiment is that users will save money through the use of microtransaction…
Quelle: Why a German Power Company is Using Ethereum to Test Blockchain Car Charging – CoinDesk
Forty of the world’s biggestbanks, including HSBC and Citi, have tested asystem for trading fixed income using the technology thatunderpins bitcoin, fintech company R3 CEV said on Thursday.
Quelle: Forty big banks test blockchain-based bond trading system
Power companies may soon be joining big banks in industries about to be massively disrupted by blockchain technology similar to that which underlies bitcoin.
Quelle: Brooklyn blockchain startup could render power companies redundant – New York Business Journal
The second part of a series on gaming and blockchains includes Spells of Genesis, Alex Amsel and Peter Borah.
Quelle: Gaming on the blockchain II – A new kind of digital ownership
