Hyperledger and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Join Forces

2018-10-02

This is a big deal. On the surface, the two largest alliances to promote enterprise blockchain adoption are agreeing to work together. That in itself is a good thing. No question. There have been silent and not so silent pushes within the Hyperledger community to start ethereum testing and cross-compatibility for a while. However, my…

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Lightning Network

2018-10-01

Shout out to 1ml  (1ml.com/statistics)… For the Lightning Network to succeed, and for Bitcoin Core to have any real shot of long-term survival by utility / usage, we are going to need to see an order of magnitude or more of bitcoins move on to the Lightning Network. As it stands right now, one nefarious…

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Blockchains are great, but….

2018-10-01

Blockchains are great… but when nations start to use them to circumvent sanctions… the end of the movie isn’t fun to watch. https://bcfocus.com/news/north-korea-attains-milestone-as-is-hold-first-international-blockchain-cryptocurrency-conference/21767/

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Monetary Transistor

2018-10-01

Originally Posted on 01 Mar 2017 Bitcoin (or cryptocurrency / digital assets in general). Call it for what it really is…. A monetary transistor.

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Venezuela. Refugees. What is their future?

2018-09-11

After reading the posts below, one can only start to fathom the immense challenges the entire region faces with more refugees than Syria. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/venezuela-s-neighbors-join-to-contain-crushing-flow-of-refugees https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cryptocurrency-venezuela-specialrepor/special-report-in-venezuela-new-cryptocurrency-is-nowhere-to-be-found-idUSKCN1LF15U New articles are showing how if 2013 a person had purchased $1 mm USD of Bolivars.. and then converted them back to USD at the beginning of this month, the…

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