Category Archives: Blockchain

Our blockchain wiki guide aims to cut through the nebular and explain the different families and trees of Blockchains. What kind of blockchains does exist? What are cryptocurrency blockchains, sidechains, and private blockchains? What are the differences between the hundreds of blockchains in existence? Blockchain Wiki: The Many Colorful Faces of Blockchain The proposition of […]

No one can predict the future of blockchain in the same way we could not predict the future of the Internet in the early ’90s. But it is clear this technology is going to have a significant impact. From corporations to startups and governments to organizations, the race is on to tap into the concept […]

If you thought the cloud wars were already tense, you were right. But the rise of blockchain is pushing that war to a whole new height as giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM rush to bring Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) to the cloud environment. Will BaaS become the key differentiator in the competition—or will a whole new […]

In 2015, 55 customers were taken ill following an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle Mexican Grill outlets. As a result, the company’s reputation suffered badly. Sales dropped, and the company’s share price dropped by a crippling 42%. That was an all-time low for the company, and unfortunately, it’s a position they’ve been in ever since. […]

There’s already one large company out there that’s saved $1 million dollars doing it. The “it,” in this case? Using a blockchain-based solution for advertising. To be clear, we’re in the very early stages of this decentralized revolution, in general, and for marketing, in particular. However, from the way the industry is shaping up, the […]

“The shitpost is mightier than the thinkpiece.” That’s a quote a friend says he saw in the news once, though I can’t find it. He swears he didn’t make it up. But it’s not out there on the Internet it seems, and if it is, it’s lost in the millions of tweets, texts and tumblrs. That’s […]

IBM and Microsoft, and the race to build a business-friendly blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. In the business world, unlike tennis, there can be more than one winner. And it may be rash to assume that the old market leaders will stay ahead of the pack, especially in a field so new. However, recent moves by the two […]

Blockchain technology will likely boost financial inclusion, but there’s still some way to go before a major impact is felt, according to industry experts speaking in China last week. At the 2017 Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in Hainan Province, speakers including Li Lihui, former president of the Bank of China, and Shi Wenchao, president of Chinese bank card provider […]

Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it’s calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger’s open-source Fabric codebase. Previously released in beta and scheduled for official release today, the offering – dubbed “IBM Blockchain” – is formally debuting in front of a group of 20,000 developers at the Interconnect conference. There, its first two major deployments will also […]

This Spring kicked off with an awesome competition aimed at finding the most innovative Blockchain solutions and awarding the teams behind them with the Blockchain Oscar and a bunch of delightful prizes. Blockchain Oscar is organized by your beloved Cointelegraph Events in partnership with Humaniq, which is building and providing an innovative model of banking […]