“… Bitcoin will become big oil, and all who dabble in it will be reborn as enemies of the environmental movement, seen as plunderers of the planet and the bad guys in the fight against climate...
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Blockchain Meets IaaS
It’s everywhere. The cloud is available from your smartphone, desktop, or iPad. We upload pictures to the cloud without thinking about it. Enterprises store volumes of data onto the cloud. However,...
G20 Financial Leaders Find Stablecoins Too Risky
Fiat currency is a “tool” we use to exchange goods and services. It is recognized by the government that issues the currency from their national or state controlled treasury, and released to each...
Blockchain and IoT: Emerging Technologies in Healthcare
Despite all the controversy of health care delivery in America, technology for health care in America is one the best in the world from pharmaceutical research, to medical research, to technical...
Chain Reaction: Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) explained
Is it a revolution? Or just hype? Perhaps something in between? One thing is clear, Blockchain is one of today’s big talking points. Experts see a technology that will influence our life, a...
Crises with Personal Identity Security: A Blockchain Use Case
If you live where my sister lives in Potlatch, Idaho, you’d never have to worry about locking your doors. Neighbors watch out for one another. My sister’s home is an idyllic home on...
Cashing Out—Converting Bitcoin to Cash
If you bought Bitcoin toward the end of 2018, you have certainly realized a tremendous gain in your Bitcoin value. As of this writing, Bitcoin it is priced at $8,464 per coin. Bitcoin has...
Digital Wallets—A Primer for Cryptocurrency Transactions
If you’ve been around blockchain and cryptocurrency for any length of time, undoubtedly you’ve heard of cryptocurrency wallets. They are used for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum,...
Bitcoin is Favored Over Cash-Bullish on Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin still a good investment option? As of Friday, September 20, Bitcoin was trading at $10,152.70. It has been within the range of $10,000 and $12,575.90 since the price started at the...
Expediting Contracts—Blockchain Use Case for Smart Contracts
Contracts govern nearly every part of our lives, much of which we may not know about, or are scarcely aware of. Every time you take a ticket for a parking space in a local parking garage, you’ve...
Leveraging Blockchain and IoT—A Use Case Application for Industry
“Neither blockchain nor IoT are simple technologies, but the growing credibility of managed platform services makes the technical aspects less daunting.”—ZDNet Using the internet is as...
Will Blockchain Disrupt the Real Estate Industry?
“If you don’t adopt disruptive technology, you will be disrupted.” ― Brad Inman In the past decade, there has been a tremendous amount of excitement in the housing market. Housing values...
A Blockchain Use Case— Port of Rotterdam Receive First Blockchain Tracked Shipping Container
Los Angeles and Long Beach California are home to the two largest ports in the U.S. and they are in the top 20 in the world, according to World Shipping Council. Every time one drives over the...
Cyber Wars! A Blockchain Use Case to Protect Your Data
“The number of high-profile breaches and attacks making headlines has led business leaders to finally take cybersecurity seriously.”—Sam Olyaei There are numerous stories and articles on...
Real Estate is Hot for Blockchain Use Case
“Disruptive technologies such as Blockchain and the Internet of Things, will have a profound impact in the way we live and work. They will require rapid adaptation in our workplaces”—Shree...
Blockchain Disrupts Travel and Tourism
In the past year—I’ve traveled from the Smokey Mountains, to the Antelope Canyon in Arizona, and to the Pacific Northwest in Seattle. And I must admit—there is nothing quite like traveling....
Blockchain Comes to the Aid of Education
“There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.”—Nancy Kassebaum ...
Financial Companies and The Need to Adopt Technology
When we think of finance, we most likely have images of men and women in Guci suits walking up the stairs to a large corporate high rise in New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago. When I studied...
Massachusetts General Hospital Exploring Blockchain for Patient Data
One of the most important documents in healthcare is the patient chart. Today, if you see a doctor, you will see the medical staff pull up a computer, and start typing as they chart your visit....
World's Top 10 FinTech Companies for 2019
“FinTech is not only an enabler but the driving engine”—Pierre Gramegna, Minister of Finance, Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg Banks and money are a driving force in our...
2019 Women's World Cup - Will Blockchain Disrupt Soccer?
Hey football fans, that is soccer fans in America—you're probably quite involved in the 2019 Women's World Cup. Two weeks into the tournament, and we are winding down to the last week, with...
Is Healthcare Ready for Blockchain?
Healthcare in America has been plagued with controversy for decades. I presented a paper on the costs of healthcare to a Healthcare Economics class in the early 90's. I thought what I...
Elon Musk: On the Way to a Cashless Economy
People have been thinking about getting rid of paper for a long time. On September 2, 1969, Chemical Bank installed the first ATM in the U.S. at its branch in Rockville Centre, New York. (1)...