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Blockchain unblocked

It’s been a big month for blockchain. I attended InterConnect and presented my research on...

Blockchain plain and simple

Blockchain is an algorithm and distributed data structure designed to manage electronic cash without any...

Proof of life or what?

A few days ago, it was reported that Julian Assange “read out a bitcoin block...

Blockchain visionaries and blockchain awareness

In a Huffington Post blog “Why the Blockchain Still Lacks Mass Understanding” William Mougayar describes...

A critique of Privacy by Design

Or Reorientating how engineers think about privacy. From my chapter Blending the practices of Privacy...

Blockchain, Healthcare and the Bleeding Edge of R&D

Last month, over September 26-27, I attended a US government workshop on The Use of...

Bitcoin’s fragile power: It’s meaningless

What do land titles, marriage certificates, diamonds, ballots, aircraft parts and medical records have in...

Order emerging from the Blockchain storm

I’ve been a critic of Blockchain. Frankly I’ve never seen such a massed rush of...

It takes a Virtual Village

In “We are hopelessly hooked” (New York Review of Books, February 25), political historian Jacob...

Mobility and the experience of identity

We all know that digital transformation is imminent, but getting there is far from easy....