IBM will create a payment system Blockchain World Wire based on the Stellar protocol
American technology giant IBM announced the development of a new payment system, Blockchain World Wire, which will be based on the Stellar protocol. It...
Cards and Theft – Swipe, Sulk, Suffer, Repeat
Magnetic stripe, EMV or behavioural AI – when it comes to card theft, are banks barking up the wrong tree? When will we...
CPU to ASIC to Clouds: Crypto-miners still changing Pelotons
Processing muscle matters a lot when you need really-brute compute force for mining something as mathematics-y as crypto-currencies. Mining hardware has come a long...
Crypto-Bans: Let’s Kill The Strawmen
There are two ways to resolve an argument. The harder one endures
Hitting the weak nerve – you just want to control (cough, cough –...
Government on Crypto – Sounds like ‘I am Groot’
The fears can be reasonable but it would be better if regulators took a brave leap of clarity on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. India’s current...
Four big misconceptions about corporate blockchains
Blockchain technology is considered revolutionary when it comes to database management and record-keeping systems. However, the emergence of any new technology is usually fraught...
Crypto-Exchanges: Weight For The Trust- Go Hummers
Hacks, solvency issues, fake trading and ICO scams – the road of investor confidence is only more muddy and inhospitable for crypto exchanges. Recent...
IPO withdrawals – Canaries in a Goldmine, Bats of Recession
What happens before a storm? The birds fly away, in flocks, in a panic - yes. But before that…
IPOs or Initial Public Offerings make...
D-Commerce: The Sliced Bread of Blockchain
E-commerce has brought speed, scale and a burst of options that were never possible before. Imagine what happens when decentralisation slices some monopolies and...
Time to PART from the eBay days?
No middlemen, but a lot of privacy and individual power as one goes shopping online. All that powered amidst aisles and aisles of open...
