New financial innovations and products are constantly being touted as the safe haven of the future. But physical gold has properties that will cause it to stick around.
What a difference a year makes. In January 2016, ASX was bathing in the warm glow of having been acclaimed by Blythe Masters, an American super saleswoman and head of a Blockchain start-up called Digital…
Ensuring trust in digital records and transactions is hard; the blockchain is an important solution.
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The transaction system underlying the bitcoin network has far broader uses than easing financial transfers – including identifying people and tracking property ownership.
Once trust in blockchain is broken, it will be hard to get back.
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Ransomware – which encrypts your files and offers to sell you the key – operates differently from other malicious software. Those differences turn out to give potential victims a fighting chance.
The DAO is so democratic that even the logo is up for popular vote. Here’s one suggested option.
The DAO
Distributed autonomous organisations, or DAO, are a new form of decentralised organisation using blockchain technology. The DAO is first off the block, and it’s already making waves.
The distributed nature of blockchain networks make them useful for many applications.
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