Category Archives: Blockchain

What’s unique about NFTs?

NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are one of the hottest applications for blockchain at the moment. The...

Blockchain’s energy consumption is literally about power

Why is blockchain the way it is? Why should any storage system — no matter...

Blockchain consensus: creating order out of chaos

Blockchain’s algorithms for public consensus literally create order out of chaos, but are they a...

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...

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...