The technology behind blockchain remains a mystery to many, but the it shares many common features with the popular online encyclopedia with which most web users are very familiar.
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Law presumes that commercial contracts are intended to be legally binding, even where computers play a part in the bargain.
The technology underlying Bitcoin is starting to spread its wings.
A new survey reveals that firms are only slowly adapting to advances in financial technology, even as CFO optimism rises.
The evolution of cryptocurrency and how it is replacing modern cash.
Sensors that monitor everything a self-driving vehicle does can help determine who is responsible in the case of an accident – the manufacturer, the service centre or the vehicle owner.
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This episode is all about bitcoin. Will it be the currency of the future? Who’s trying to capitalise on the legal loopholes of cryptocurrencies? And is it possible to make mining them more green.
More connected devices means more vulnerability to cyberattacks. Is there a cheap, easy and secure way to protect the internet and the world?
Blockchain technology is flourishing in an open-source environment, which raises the question of whether current intellectual property laws are the best tools to foster innovation.
There’s no magic fix in sight for the amount of energy gobbled by cryptocurrency miners – but at least the method used is relatively secure.
Crypto billionaires enjoy their Caribbean playground but poorer locals with little knowledge of the tech are excluded.
While sovereign governments need to develop coherent frameworks to regulate cryptocurrency, permanent solutions will be found through international co-operation.
DNA marketplaces powered by the blockchain and new cryptocurrency tokens promise to let you profit from your own genome.
Flaws in manufacturing processes can cause chip flaws like Spectre and Meltdown – and blockchain technology may offer a solution.
Cryptocurrencies encompass a wide range of technologies, communities and uses. Not all of them are taken seriously.
Blockchain is now helping to bring much-needed transparency to the global tuna industry, which has been prone to corruption, human slavery and unsustainable fishing practices.
Kodak’s new blockchain and cryptocurrency hint at a new kind of intellectual property, one that doesn’t need a government to enforce property rights.
How a technology born from finance – the blockchain – can help the pharmaceutical industry to carry out clinical trials that protect patients.
Blockchain technology could be applied to our energy grids to make them smarter, and turn energy consumers into producers.
Food fraud and safety concerns are an ongoing problem in the agrifood sector— could blockchain technology be a solution?
Top contributors
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Law, University of East London
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Associate Director, Initiative For Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3); Assistant Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech, and Co-Director, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Cornell University
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Assistant Professor in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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University Fellow in AI and Human Decision Making, University of Salford
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin
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Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Associate professor, University of Exeter
