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The Rotterdam cube houses by top architect Piet Blom are world famous. However, what many people don't realize is that this was not Blom's first cube project. The first cube houses were built in the cozy Dutch Brabant city of Helmond. The houses in Rotterdam were later given a different color and are slightly different in size and layout. Cube houses are the most iconic houses in the Netherlands. The architecture, art and functionality are connected in an ingenious and creative way. The Helmond houses are tilted cubes on piles. Blom had thought that strange forms of living with a perspective upside down will bring out the ultimate creativity of a person during the furnishing of the house. When you step inside, everything is different from a normal home and it is also nice that the upper part is made entirely of glass. Some people think that the mysterious unknown cult person Satoshi Nakamoto was a big fan of Piet Blom's blocks that are connected to each other. According to this theory, he or she would have been inspired by the cube houses to develop the blockchain technology for bitcoin.
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De Rotterdamse kubuswoningen van toparchitect Piet Blom zijn wereldberoemd. Echter wat veel mensen niet realiseren is dat dit niet het eerste kubusproject van Blom was. De eerste kubuswoningen zijn namelijk gebouwd in de gezellige brabantse stad Helmond. De woningen in Rotterdam hebben later een andere kleur gekregen en zijn qua grote en indeling net een tikkeltje anders. Kubuswoningen zijn de meest iconische woningen van Nederland. De architectuur, kunst en functionaliteit zijn op een ingenieuze en creatieve manier met elkaar verbonden. De Helmondse woningen zijn gekantelde kubusen op palen. Blom had bedacht dat rare woonvormen met een perspectief op zijn kop de ultieme creativiteit van een mens naar boven zal brengen bij het inrichten. Als je er binnen stapt is alles anders dan in een gewone woning en het is ook leuk dat het bovenste gedeelte helemaal van glas is gemaakt. Er zijn zelfs mensen die oprecht denken dat de mysterieze onbekende anonieme persoon Satoshi Nakamoto groot fan was van Piet Blom en dat de eerste blockchaintechnologie voor bitcoin geïnspireerd is op de kubuswoningen.
Under the guise of environmentalism and conservation the powers that be want to tokenize everything, including nature. They want to “monitor, preserve, and enhance the natural world.” Just like they plan to enhance (control) humans through transhumanism, they plan to enhance (control) nature. They want to enslave both man and nature.
These elitists want to integrate blockchain technology into nature and market it as biodiversity conservation. They not only want to build the Internet of Bodies (people), but also the Internet of Forests (nature). They want everything to become part of the Internet of Things. They want to connect every living thing to artificial intelligence. This trans-human-ism and trans-nature-ism would commoditize every living thing. It would be the merging of man and machine; it would be the merging of nature and machine. It would be “a world where virtually everyone and everything is intelligently connected.” Dystopia anyone?
They are marketing this tokenization of nature as “an effort to minimize negative impacts on ecosystems and species.” Snake oil anyone? If they tokenize nature, they can use nature as a financial instrument. They can then sell green bonds and derivatives based on biodiversity data. This data would be gathered via sensors, drone fleets (“swarm intelligence drones”), and satellites. Thus all the species of the forest would be monitored and data mined. They want to build an “AI-driven neural network for our planet.” They want a global AI network that monitors everyone and everything in real-time.
This system will require datafication of biodiversity. This means that they will need to create digital representations of all species and all ecosystems on earth. They want to commoditize everything. “Almost every core function in financial services will be transformed.” It’s good for the planet and good for business…buhahaha!
The scam: Carbon Markets! “Carbon markets are critical in helping the world attain net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions.” Carbon markets revolve around the buying and selling of carbon credits. These credits allow the buyer to emit a certain amount of pollution. “Carbon justice for all!”
“Carbon markets can be a powerful tool to help advance carbon justice.” – United Nations
Carbon trading was first introduced as part of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol’s carbon trading system was a major step towards establishing a global market for carbon emissions. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted as the first addition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Kyoto Protocol has since been replaced by the Paris Agreement.
The globalists have also been talking about “carbon emissions trading schemes under which emissions credits would be allocated to adult individuals.” To bring about a personal carbon market scheme, they must introduce digital IDs and central bank digital currencies. Then they can introduce a Chinese-style social credit score system. They will tie your “carbon footprint” to your social credit score. Therefore, you’ll own nothing, and you’ll happily eat your bugs. You won’t have enough money to buy a carbon credit to leave your 15-minute city neighbourhood prison. But then again, climate lockdowns! By the way: you may want to breathe less, because they will carbon tax your every breath.
The carbon market is being introduced through public-private partnerships, which adhere to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. A low-carbon economy: degrowth. Degrowth is synonymous with poverty and depopulation.
Eventually, they will install a world leader over their new world order. Each individual will have to take this leader’s Mark (blockchain technology) in order to participate in his new world economic order. No one will be able to buy or sell unless they take his transhuman technology—the merging of man and Beast. If they receive his Mark, they will become one with the Beast’s AI-driven neural network. The public persona of this Skynet system will be the Image of the Beast. Those who refuse to take the Mark of the Beast and worship his Image will be enemies of the new world state. All such people will be hunted down and terminated—hasta la vista, baby. The new world surveillance state: you can run, but you can’t hide!
2 Timothy 3:1 “This know also, that in the last days perilous times will come.”
Now, for one of my favourite verses:
Psalm 42:1 “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.”
Democracy is complicated in Europe with local & national interests competing with Union issues - a serious voter has a lot to weigh up. Estonia has carved out a niche as a startup hub and a friendly environment for foreign businesses. Its biggest innovation, however, lies in e-government. Citizens of this tiny Baltic nation can conduct almost every encounter with the state online. A digital-signature system makes official transactions a doddle. Armed with an ID card and a PIN, Estonians can vote, submit applications or sign contracts in seconds. Officials claim this lifts annual GDP by 2% while saving a mound of paperwork and creating opportunities for business. Estonians abroad lament the red tape involved in even simple tasks like applying for a driving licence. As Estonia assumes the rotating presidency of the EU’s Council of Ministers, it has been granted a pulpit from which to preach the digital gospel to the rest of Europe. Chief among Estonia’s plans is a proposal to expand the EU’s familiar four freedoms—the unhindered movement of goods, services, capital and people across borders—to include a fifth: data. digitisation can actually enhance security. (Other officials note the potential of blockchain technology to overcome gaps in trust.) But countries must want to change. Mr Ansip says that groups of EU governments may need to move ahead with data-sharing initiatives rather than waiting for all the laggards to agree.
Vested interests and distracted politicians have often limited Europe’s ambitions on digital matters.
Voxel Bridge is a temporary installation until 2023 on the underside of the south end of Cambie Street Bridge over Vancouver’s False Creek.
The work is by New York based Colombian artist Jessica Angel.
The installation is a vinyl overlay directly on the architecture on the underside of the bridge deck, around the columns, and underfoot on the sidewalk.
The art work is a Vancouver Biennale public art work that uses augmented reality, NFTs and blockchain technology.
The work is a physical analogue and an online digital. As pixel refers to a point in a two-dimensional world, voxel refers to a similar unit in a 3-D world.
Voxel Bridge is about itself: it will tell the story of what it means to use new decentralized technology called blockchain to create the images seen.
To access the second, digital layer of Voxel Bridge, viewers need to download a Vancouver Biennale app on a smartphone, iPad or tablet.
The app has a scanner designed to read markers that resemble QR codes. The markers will be on the vinyl layer on the ground. Once you’re in the digital layer, you’ll be able to move your phone to see digital objects that appear to float and interact.
There are 20 NFTs in Voxel Bridge. An NFT is a unique digital file that can’t be changed or divided. It’s being called the digital version of a unique artwork.
NFT stands for non fungible token. Cryptocurrencies and physical money are called fungible because they can be exchanged. NFTs are unique digital files that can’t be exchanged for one another.
And, I have no idea of what or how and don’t want too. Old person syndrome.
CrowdPoint's charter is to empower the microprenuer who own Small and Medium Businesses to harness the power of Big Data, A.I., Compaction, and Blockchain technologies to participate in a Blockchain Ecosystem Exchange.
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PA_1479 [30 points]
A second cryptopunk space invader landed in Paris. This time in the 18ème arrondissement in the quartier Goutte d'Or above the Olympic Café. When you are visiting a fresh new space invader then you have a very good chance to meet fellow space invader fans to flash this new invader.
CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk. There are 10,000 unique CryptoPunks (6,039 male and 3,840 female), all of which are made digitally scarce through the use of blockchain technology. Each one was algorithmically generated through computer code and thus no two characters are exactly alike, with some traits being rarer than others.
Onscreen FlashInvaders message: CRYPTOPUNKETTE ROCKS L'OLYMPIC
All my photos of PA_1479:
PA_1479 (Close-up, October 2022)
PA_1479 (Wide shot, October 2022)
Date of invasion: 27/10/2022
[ Found this cryptopunkette PA_1479 within 2 days after invasion at the maximum ]
PA_1480 [50 points]
A "50 points" cryptopunk space invader landed in the neighbourhood of Les Halles. This is Invader's 4071 space invader in the world. Part of a series of 4 cryptopunk space invaders so far (*March 2023) and this one is the biggest one.
CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk. There are 10,000 unique CryptoPunks (6,039 male and 3,840 female), all of which are made digitally scarce through the use of blockchain technology. Each one was algorithmically generated through computer code and thus no two characters are exactly alike, with some traits being rarer than others.
Onscreen FlashInvaders message: ZOMBIE LAND CRYPTOPUNK DES HALLES
All my photos of PA_1480:
PA_1480 (Close-up, December 2022)
PA_1480 (Wide shot, November 2022)
Date of invasion: 18/11/2022 (Source: Instagram Invaderwashere)
[ Visited this crypto punk PA_1480 for the 1st time 6 days after invasion ]
In a time where up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right, it has never been more important to take ownership of your life, your health and your finances.
As mandates have been installed and freedoms have been slowly taken away, it has now become essential to take control of how you earn an income so you are no longer under the control of any government mandates and what they dictate. That is why we decided to join Crowdpoint, become a microprenuer and embrace the power of the Blockchain technology.
Growing up we were taught the golden rule, “treat people the way you want to be treated”. Crowdpoint is the first company that we have encountered that actually lives by these words and has created an environment where everyone truly wins.
With the Blockchain technology, your identity has never been more secure. In today’s world, hackers and big tech have hijacked our freedoms and are contributing to the modern day slave trade. The war on our identities is real! The Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the world and ecommerce. It is a driving force in the global economy. This technology is instrumental in solving the challenges that ecommerce has been facing since nearly its start and is now currently being used to facilitate financial transactions. The Blockchain makes transactions safer and faster while engaging users to share and securely store digital assets both automatically and manually. So when we learned about Crowdpoints commitment to both their customers and the company, combined with the massive abilities that the Blockchain technology has, we absolutely jumped at the chance to come aboard.
The Crowdpoint model and Blockchain work synergistically together to both protect all users and create the environment where everyone wins. That’s the most exciting thing about it, it benefits both the retailers and the buyers offering convenient solutions to both cyber threats and financial security concerns, bringing to fruition what we were all taught as kids….the golden rule….treat people the way you want to be treated!
PA_1478 [30 points]
This one is the first of a series of CryptoPunks mosaïcs made by Invader. CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk. There are 10,000 unique CryptoPunks (6,039 male and 3,840 female), all of which are made digitally scarce through the use of blockchain technology. Each one was algorithmically generated through computer code and thus no two characters are exactly alike, with some traits being rarer than others.
But this Cryptopunk PA_1478 is not a NFT anymore! He stands now on a façade in Paris, just above the place where New Rose, the legendary records shop and label was. [ # Invaderwashere ]
Onscreen FlashInvaders message: ALIVE CRYPTOPUNK ON DEAD NEW ROSE
All my photos of PA_1478:
PA_1478 (Close-up, October 2022)
PA_1478 (Wide shot, October 2022)
Date of invasion: 26/10/2022 (Source: Invaderwashere @Instagram)
[ Found this cryptopunk PA_1478 only 2 days after invasion ]
The family BIS: The Bank for International Settlements is working with various other crime syndicates (central banks) to build digital financial networks and platforms along with technological tools to support a new era of international monetary cooperation in the digital money ecosystem.
I’m gonna make you a deal you can’t refuse. It’s not personal, it’s strictly business. The banker with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with a gun.
The future is a tokenized world. The tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) will enable the buying and selling of digital assets through blockchain technology. Blockchain is a digital ledger, a digital list of records, a digital database that records financial transactions in a business network. Most payment systems are designed for domestic use; therefore, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) must be interlinked to a shared global platform. Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) must be combined with Fast Payment Systems (FPS) in order to calculate various exchange rates for real-time cross-border transactions. CBDCs will then be transferred via digital bridges between domestic platforms and transnational networks. This transnational blockchain network will act like an interbank foreign exchange.
There are two main forms of CBDCs: retail CBDCs and wholesale CBDCs. Retail CBDCs are used by the general public and wholesale CBDCs are used by the banking industry. Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMIs) will be the international standard for this distributed ledger wholesale interbank financial market infrastructure payment settlement system. Indeed, collaboration between global partners will push the boundaries of central bank innovation and efficiency.
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.” The banking mafia will extort your money and assets. You’ll own nothing and be happy. You’ll be controlled by a Social Credit Score system. You’ll be given an allowance: Universal Basic Income (universal welfare/socialism). The mob will control you.
The Godfather will eventually consolidate the family business, creating a One World Digital Currency (OWDC) called the MARK. The Godfather’s symbol will be a number, and his number will be 666.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 “Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”
(Reuters) – “The first human patient implanted with a brain-chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using their thoughts, the startup’s founder Elon Musk said late on Monday.” (One day they’ll be able to do this on an industrial scale: The Fourth Industrial Revolution).
In a time where up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right, it has never been more important to take ownership of your life, your health and your finances.
As mandates have been installed and freedoms have been slowly taken away, it has now become essential to take control of how you earn an income so you are no longer under the control of any government mandates and what they dictate. That is why we decided to join Crowdpoint, become a microprenuer and embrace the power of the Blockchain technology.
Growing up we were taught the golden rule, “treat people the way you want to be treated”. Crowdpoint is the first company that we have encountered that actually lives by these words and has created an environment where everyone truly wins.
With the Blockchain technology, your identity has never been more secure. In today’s world, hackers and big tech have hijacked our freedoms and are contributing to the modern day slave trade. The war on our identities is real! The Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the world and ecommerce. It is a driving force in the global economy. This technology is instrumental in solving the challenges that ecommerce has been facing since nearly its start and is now currently being used to facilitate financial transactions. The Blockchain makes transactions safer and faster while engaging users to share and securely store digital assets both automatically and manually. So when we learned about Crowdpoints commitment to both their customers and the company, combined with the massive abilities that the Blockchain technology has, we absolutely jumped at the chance to come aboard.
The Crowdpoint model and Blockchain work synergistically together to both protect all users and create the environment where everyone wins. That’s the most exciting thing about it, it benefits both the retailers and the buyers offering convenient solutions to both cyber threats and financial security concerns, bringing to fruition what we were all taught as kids….the golden rule….treat people the way you want to be treated!
PA_1479 [30 points]
A second cryptopunk space invader landed in Paris. This time in the 18ème arrondissement in the quartier Goutte d'Or above the Olympic Café.
CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk. There are 10,000 unique CryptoPunks (6,039 male and 3,840 female), all of which are made digitally scarce through the use of blockchain technology. Each one was algorithmically generated through computer code and thus no two characters are exactly alike, with some traits being rarer than others.
Onscreen FlashInvaders message: CRYPTOPUNKETTE ROCKS L'OLYMPIC
All my photos of PA_1479:
PA_1479 (Close-up, October 2022)
PA_1479 (Wide shot, October 2022)
Date of invasion: 27/10/2022
[ Found this cryptopunkette PA_1479 within 2 days after invasion at the maximum ]
PA_1480 [50 points]
A "50 points" cryptopunk space invader landed in the neighbourhood of Les Halles. This is Invader's 4071 space invader in the world. Part of a series of 4 cryptopunk space invaders so far (*March 2023) and this one is the biggest one.
CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk. There are 10,000 unique CryptoPunks (6,039 male and 3,840 female), all of which are made digitally scarce through the use of blockchain technology. Each one was algorithmically generated through computer code and thus no two characters are exactly alike, with some traits being rarer than others.
Onscreen FlashInvaders message: ZOMBIE LAND CRYPTOPUNK DES HALLES
All my photos of PA_1480:
PA_1480 (Close-up, December 2022)
PA_1480 (Wide shot, November 2022)
Date of invasion: 18/11/2022 (Source: Instagram Invaderwashere)
[ Visited this crypto punk PA_1480 for the 1st time 6 days after invasion ]
PA_1478 [30 points]
This one is the first of a series of CryptoPunks mosaïcs made by Invader. CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk. There are 10,000 unique CryptoPunks (6,039 male and 3,840 female), all of which are made digitally scarce through the use of blockchain technology. Each one was algorithmically generated through computer code and thus no two characters are exactly alike, with some traits being rarer than others.
But this Cryptopunk PA_1478 is not a NFT anymore! He stands now on a façade in Paris, just above the place where New Rose, the legendary records shop and label was. [ # Invaderwashere ]
Onscreen FlashInvaders message: ALIVE CRYPTOPUNK ON DEAD NEW ROSE
All my photos of PA_1478:
PA_1478 (Close-up, October 2022)
PA_1478 (Wide shot, October 2022)
Date of invasion: 26/10/2022 (Source: Invaderwashere @Instagram)
[ Found this cryptopunk PA_1478 only 2 days after invasion ]
CryptoBoxers is the first and only boxing game using blockchain technology, with collectible tokens based upon boxing celebrities who have signed on to the game.
For more info, please visit at cryptoboxers.io
In a time where up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right, it has never been more important to take ownership of your life, your health and your finances.
As mandates have been installed and freedoms have been slowly taken away, it has now become essential to take control of how you earn an income so you are no longer under the control of any government mandates and what they dictate. That is why we decided to join Crowdpoint, become a microprenuer and embrace the power of the Blockchain technology.
Growing up we were taught the golden rule, “treat people the way you want to be treated”. Crowdpoint is the first company that we have encountered that actually lives by these words and has created an environment where everyone truly wins.
With the Blockchain technology, your identity has never been more secure. In today’s world, hackers and big tech have hijacked our freedoms and are contributing to the modern day slave trade. The war on our identities is real! The Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the world and ecommerce. It is a driving force in the global economy. This technology is instrumental in solving the challenges that ecommerce has been facing since nearly its start and is now currently being used to facilitate financial transactions. The Blockchain makes transactions safer and faster while engaging users to share and securely store digital assets both automatically and manually. So when we learned about Crowdpoints commitment to both their customers and the company, combined with the massive abilities that the Blockchain technology has, we absolutely jumped at the chance to come aboard.
The Crowdpoint model and Blockchain work synergistically together to both protect all users and create the environment where everyone wins. That’s the most exciting thing about it, it benefits both the retailers and the buyers offering convenient solutions to both cyber threats and financial security concerns, bringing to fruition what we were all taught as kids….the golden rule….treat people the way you want to be treated!
In a time where up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right, it has never been more important to take ownership of your life, your health and your finances.
As mandates have been installed and freedoms have been slowly taken away, it has now become essential to take control of how you earn an income so you are no longer under the control of any government mandates and what they dictate. That is why we decided to join Crowdpoint, become a microprenuer and embrace the power of the Blockchain technology.
Growing up we were taught the golden rule, “treat people the way you want to be treated”. Crowdpoint is the first company that we have encountered that actually lives by these words and has created an environment where everyone truly wins.
With the Blockchain technology, your identity has never been more secure. In today’s world, hackers and big tech have hijacked our freedoms and are contributing to the modern day slave trade. The war on our identities is real! The Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the world and ecommerce. It is a driving force in the global economy. This technology is instrumental in solving the challenges that ecommerce has been facing since nearly its start and is now currently being used to facilitate financial transactions. The Blockchain makes transactions safer and faster while engaging users to share and securely store digital assets both automatically and manually. So when we learned about Crowdpoints commitment to both their customers and the company, combined with the massive abilities that the Blockchain technology has, we absolutely jumped at the chance to come aboard.
The Crowdpoint model and Blockchain work synergistically together to both protect all users and create the environment where everyone wins. That’s the most exciting thing about it, it benefits both the retailers and the buyers offering convenient solutions to both cyber threats and financial security concerns, bringing to fruition what we were all taught as kids….the golden rule….treat people the way you want to be treated!
At every turn in life, something awaits us. It could be good or bad, but our duty is to face it all. If it's good then cherish it; if it's bad, then you've earned yourself another experience point so that the next time something similar comes up, you'll know how to deal with it.
In a time where up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right, it has never been more important to take ownership of your life, your health and your finances.
As mandates have been installed and freedoms have been slowly taken away, it has now become essential to take control of how you earn an income so you are no longer under the control of any government mandates and what they dictate. That is why we decided to join Crowdpoint, become a microprenuer and embrace the power of the Blockchain technology.
Growing up we were taught the golden rule, “treat people the way you want to be treated”. Crowdpoint is the first company that we have encountered that actually lives by these words and has created an environment where everyone truly wins.
With the Blockchain technology, your identity has never been more secure. In today’s world, hackers and big tech have hijacked our freedoms and are contributing to the modern day slave trade. The war on our identities is real! The Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the world and ecommerce. It is a driving force in the global economy. This technology is instrumental in solving the challenges that ecommerce has been facing since nearly its start and is now currently being used to facilitate financial transactions. The Blockchain makes transactions safer and faster while engaging users to share and securely store digital assets both automatically and manually. So when we learned about Crowdpoints commitment to both their customers and the company, combined with the massive abilities that the Blockchain technology has, we absolutely jumped at the chance to come aboard.
The Crowdpoint model and Blockchain work synergistically together to both protect all users and create the environment where everyone wins. That’s the most exciting thing about it, it benefits both the retailers and the buyers offering convenient solutions to both cyber threats and financial security concerns, bringing to fruition what we were all taught as kids….the golden rule….treat people the way you want to be treated!
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Crowdpoint Technologies
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CrowdPoint Technologies is a Digital Platform Provider powered by the Blockchain. Our mission is to blur the lines between Big Data, AI Compaction and Blockchain Technology to defend Democratize and deliver Dividends to the Human Identity.
#CyberPrivacy #Blockchain #PaulaKavanagh #PaulaJulianoKavanagh #AdvancedMedicine #DrButtar #IMeX #AdvancedMedicineMarketplace #AdvancedMedicine #BlockchainEcosystem #HealthcareExchange #InteractiveMedia #InteractiveMediaExchange
A blockchain, originally block chain, is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. Each block typically contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp and transaction data. By design, a blockchain is inherently resistant to modification of the data. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way". For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires collusion of the network majority. Blockchains are secure by design and are an example of a distributed computing system with high Byzantine fault tolerance. Decentralized consensus has therefore been achieved with a blockchain. This makes blockchains potentially suitable for the recording of events, medical records, and other records management activities, such as identity management,transaction processing, documenting provenance, food traceability or voting. Blockchain was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 for use in the cryptocurrency bitcoin, as its public transaction ledger.The first work on a cryptographically secured chain of blocks was described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta.In 1992, Bayer, Haber and Stornetta incorporated Merkle trees to the design, which improved its efficiency by allowing several documents to be collected into one block.In 2002, David Mazières and Dennis Shasha proposed a network file system with decentralized trust: writers to the file system trust one another but not the network in between; they achieve file system integrity by writing signed commits to a shared, append-only signature chain that captures the root of the file system (which in turn is a Merkle Tree). This system can be viewed as a proto-blockchain in which all authorized clients can always write, whereas, in modern blockchains, a client who solves a cryptographic puzzle can write one block.[citation needed] In 2005, Nick Szabo proposed a blockchain-like system for decentralized property titles and his bit gold payment system that utilised chained proof-of-work and timestamping. However, Szabo's method of double-spending protection was vulnerable to Sybil attacks. The first blockchain was conceptualised by a person (or group of people) known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. It was implemented the following year by Nakamoto as a core component of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for all transactions on the network.Through the use of a blockchain, bitcoin became the first digital currency to solve the double spending problem without requiring a trusted authority and has been the inspiration for many additional applications. In August 2014, the bitcoin blockchain file size, containing records of all transactions that have occurred on the network, reached 20GB (gigabytes). In January 2015, the size had grown to almost 30GB, and from January 2016 to January 2017, the bitcoin blockchain grew from 50GB to 100GB in size.The words block and chain were used separately in Satoshi Nakamoto's original paper, but were eventually popularized as a single word, blockchain, by 2016. The term blockchain 2.0 refers to new applications of the distributed blockchain database, first emerging in 2014. The Economist described one implementation of this second-generation programmable blockchain as coming with "a programming language that allows users to write more sophisticated smart contracts, thus creating invoices that pay themselves when a shipment arrives or share certificates which automatically send their owners dividends if profits reach a certain level". Blockchain 2.0 technologies go beyond transactions and enable "exchange of value without powerful intermediaries acting as arbiters of money and information". They are expected to enable excluded people to enter the global economy, protect the privacy of participants, allow people to "monetize their own information", and provide the capability to ensure creators are compensated for their intellectual property. Second-generation blockchain technology makes it possible to store an individual's "persistent digital ID and persona" and are providing an avenue to help solve the problem of social inequality by "potentially changing the way wealth is distributed".:14–15 As of 2016, blockchain 2.0 implementations continue to require an off-chain oracle to access any "external data or events based on time or market conditions [that need] to interact with the blockchain". In 2016, the central securities depository of the Russian Federation (NSD) announced a pilot project, based on the Nxt blockchain 2.0 platform, that would explore the use of blockchain-based automated voting systems. IBM opened a blockchain innovation research center in Singapore in July 2016. A working group for the World Economic Forum met in November 2016 to discuss the development of governance models related to blockchain.[28] According to Accenture, an application of the diffusion of innovations theory suggests that blockchains attained a 13.5% adoption rate within financial services in 2016, therefore reaching the early adopters phase. Industry trade groups joined to create the Global Blockchain Forum in 2016, an initiative of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. A blockchain is a decentralized, distributed and public digital ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers so that the record cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks and the collusion of the network. This allows the participants to verify and audit transactions inexpensively. A blockchain database is managed autonomously using a peer-to-peer network and a distributed timestamping server. They are authenticated by mass collaboration powered by collective self-interests.The result is a robust workflow where participants' uncertainty regarding data security is marginal. The use of a blockchain removes the characteristic of infinite reproducibility from a digital asset. It confirms that each unit of value was transferred only once, solving the long-standing problem of double spending. Blockchains have been described as a value-exchange protocol. This blockchain-based exchange of value can be completed more quickly, more safely and more cheaply than with traditional systems. A blockchain can assign title rights because it provides a record that compels offer and acceptance.
Blocks
Blocks hold batches of valid transactions that are hashed and encoded into a Merkle tree. Each block includes the cryptographic hash of the prior block in the blockchain, linking the two. The linked blocks form a chain.This iterative process confirms the integrity of the previous block, all the way back to the original genesis block.
Sometimes separate blocks can be produced concurrently, creating a temporary fork. In addition to a secure hash-based history, any blockchain has a specified algorithm for scoring different versions of the history so that one with a higher value can be selected over others. Blocks not selected for inclusion in the chain are called orphan blocks. Peers supporting the database have different versions of the history from time to time. They only keep the highest-scoring version of the database known to them. Whenever a peer receives a higher-scoring version (usually the old version with a single new block added) they extend or overwrite their own database and retransmit the improvement to their peers. There is never an absolute guarantee that any particular entry will remain in the best version of the history forever. Because blockchains are typically built to add the score of new blocks onto old blocks and because there are incentives to work only on extending with new blocks rather than overwriting old blocks, the probability of an entry becoming superseded goes down exponentially as more blocks are built on top of it, eventually becoming very low. For example, in a blockchain using the proof-of-work system, the chain with the most cumulative proof-of-work is always considered the valid one by the network. There are a number of methods that can be used to demonstrate a sufficient level of computation. Within a blockchain the computation is carried out redundantly rather than in the traditional segregated and parallel manner.
The block time is the average time it takes for the network to generate one extra block in the blockchain. Some blockchains create a new block as frequently as every five seconds. By the time of block completion, the included data becomes verifiable. In cryptocurrency, this is practically when the money transaction takes place, so a shorter block time means faster transactions. The block time for Ethereum is set to between 14 and 15 seconds, while for bitcoin it is 10 minutes.Express. Why is Ripple XRP falling today? Why is it crashing in value?Ripple price: Why is Ripple XRP falling today? Why is it… 'Ripple is first in line' - CEO reveals next cryptocurrency to catch up with bitcoin
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Bitcoin price suffered a massive plunge as the cryptocurrency reached the value of $9,114.56, according to Coindesk at 10:37 pm on February. As the crypto-craze started to die down, Euronext CEO Stéphane Boujnah claims bitcoin cannot even be classified as a cryptocurrency. Speaking on Bloomberg, Mr Boujnah said Euronext will never open a bitcoin market. He said: "We will not create a bitcoin market because the mandate of Euronext is to power Pan-European capital markets to finance the real economy and bitcoin has nothing to do with the real economy. "Bitcoin has a lot to do with bitcoin. And we believe bitcoin is not a cryptocurrency.
"Bitcoin is at best a crypto asset. All currencies are assets but not all assets are currencies. "Clearly, bitcoin today is just like a piece of art, or just like a diamond, just like a Pokemon card.
"It can be anything to capture value but today people buy it because it goes up and because it’s not as serious and transparent as a lot of assets. "So great, good luck. Like any emerging assets, it’s very fancy, which is great, but this is not our mandate. "Our mandate is to be the place regulated, transparent, open, reliable. It’s not our mandate to be part of this new game in town." Despite the rollercoaster few months suffered by the crypto mania, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ripple and ethereum still benefit from a "growing" appreciation among institutional investors, according to Dr Garrick Hileman, from the Cambridge University Centre for Alternative Finance.In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Dr Hileman said: "Any breakthrough technology, and bitcoin and blockchain, are certainly breakthrough technologies, hype often outpaces the reality. “In terms of both of how mature the technology is, the rates of adoption. “We’ve seen this before with bitcoin and we’ve seen the price shoot up first in late 2013 when it first entered the mainstream public consciousness. “The price subsequently crashed 85 percent as security at a major exchange broke down and bitcoin’s were stolen. “So we’ve seen this kind of story repeat where bitcoin rises, gets hyped and then there’s a crash.” This section is transcluded from Fork (blockchain). A hard fork occurs when a blockchain splits into two incompatible separate chains. This is a consequence of the use of two incompatible sets of rules trying to govern the system. For example, Ethereum has hard-forked to "make whole" the investors in The DAO, which had been hacked by exploiting a vulnerability in its code. In 2014 the Nxt community was asked to consider a hard fork that would have led to a rollback of the blockchain records to mitigate the effects of a theft of 50 million NXT from a major cryptocurrency exchange. The hard fork proposal was rejected, and some of the funds were recovered after negotiations and ransom payment.
Decentralization
By storing data across its network, the blockchain eliminates the risks that come with data being held centrally. The decentralized blockchain may use ad-hoc message passing and distributed networking. Its network lacks centralized points of vulnerability that computer crackers can exploit; likewise, it has no central point of failure. Blockchain security methods include the use of public-key cryptography. A public key (a long, random-looking string of numbers) is an address on the blockchain. Value tokens sent across the network are recorded as belonging to that address. A private key is like a password that gives its owner access to their digital assets or the means to otherwise interact with the various capabilities that blockchains now support. Data stored on the blockchain is generally considered incorruptible. This is where blockchain has its advantage. While centralized data is more controllable, information and data manipulation are common. By decentralizing it, blockchain makes data transparent to everyone involved. Every node in a decentralized system has a copy of the blockchain. Data quality is maintained by massive database replication[9] and computational trust. No centralized "official" copy exists and no user is "trusted" more than any other. Transactions are broadcast to the network using software. Messages are delivered on a best-effort basis. Mining nodes validate transactions, add them to the block they are building, and then broadcast the completed block to other nodes. Blockchains use various time-stamping schemes, such as proof-of-work, to serialize changes. Alternate consensus methods include proof-of-stake. Growth of a decentralized blockchain is accompanied by the risk of node centralization because the computer resources required to process larger amounts of data become more expensive.
Openness
Open blockchains are more user-friendly than some traditional ownership records, which, while open to the public, still require physical access to view. Because all early blockchains were permissionless, controversy has arisen over the blockchain definition. An issue in this ongoing debate is whether a private system with verifiers tasked and authorized (permissioned) by a central authority should be considered a blockchain. Proponents of permissioned or private chains argue that the term "blockchain" may be applied to any data structure that batches data into time-stamped blocks. These blockchains serve as a distributed version of multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) in databases. Just as MVCC prevents two transactions from concurrently modifying a single object in a database, blockchains prevent two transactions from spending the same single output in a blockchain.[24]:30–31 Opponents say that permissioned systems resemble traditional corporate databases, not supporting decentralized data verification, and that such systems are not hardened against operator tampering and revision. Nikolai Hampton of Computerworld said that "many in-house blockchain solutions will be nothing more than cumbersome databases."Business analysts Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott define blockchain as a distributed ledger or database open to anyone.
Permissionless
The great advantage to an open, permissionless, or public, blockchain network is that guarding against bad actors is not required and no access control is needed.This means that applications can be added to the network without the approval or trust of others, using the blockchain as a transport layer.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies currently secure their blockchain by requiring new entries including a proof of work. To prolong the blockchain, bitcoin uses Hashcash puzzles developed by Adam Back in the 1990s.
Financial companies have not prioritised decentralized blockchains. In 2016, venture capital investment for blockchain related projects was weakening in the USA but increasing in China. Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies use open (public) blockchains. As of January 2018, bitcoin has the highest market capitalization.
Permissioned (private) blockchain
Permissioned blockchains use an access control layer to govern who has access to the network. In contrast to public blockchain networks, validators on private blockchain networks are vetted by the network owner. They do not rely on anonymous nodes to validate transactions nor do they benefit from the network effect. Permissioned blockchains can also go by the name of 'consortium' or 'hybrid' blockchains.
The New York Times noted in both 2016 and 2017 that many corporations are using blockchain networks "with private blockchains, independent of the public system."
Disadvantages
Nikolai Hampton pointed out in Computerworld that "There is also no need for a "51 percent" attack on a private blockchain, as the private blockchain (most likely) already controls 100 percent of all block creation resources. If you could attack or damage the blockchain creation tools on a private corporate server, you could effectively control 100 percent of their network and alter transactions however you wished." This has a set of particularly profound adverse implications during a financial crisis or debt crisis like the financial crisis of 2007–08, where politically powerful actors may make decisions that favor some groups at the expense of others.[citation needed] and "the bitcoin blockchain is protected by the massive group mining effort. It's unlikely that any private blockchain will try to protect records using gigawatts of computing power — it's time consuming and expensive."He also said, "Within a private blockchain there is also no 'race'; there's no incentive to use more power or discover blocks faster than competitors. This means that many in-house blockchain solutions will be nothing more than cumbersome databases."
Uses
Blockchain technology can be integrated into multiple areas. The primary use of blockchains today is as a distributed ledger for cryptocurrencies, most notably bitcoin.While a few central banks, in countries such as China, United States, Sweden, Singapore, South Africa and England are studying issuance of a Central Bank Issued Cryptocurrency (CICC), none have done so thus far.
General potentials
Blockchain technology has a large potential to transform business operating models in the long term. Blockchain distributed ledger technology is more a foundational technology—with the potential to create new foundations for global economic and social systems—than a disruptive technology, which typically "attack a traditional business model with a lower-cost solution and overtake incumbent firms quickly".Even so, there are a few operational products maturing from proof of concept by late 2016.The use of blockchains promises to bring significant efficiencies to global supply chains, financial transactions, asset ledgers and decentralized social networking.
As of 2016, some observers remain skeptical. Steve Wilson, of Constellation Research, believes the technology has been hyped with unrealistic claims.To mitigate risk businesses are reluctant to place blockchain at the core of the business structure.
This means specific blockchain applications may be a disruptive innovation, because substantially lower-cost solutions can be instantiated, which can disrupt existing business models. Blockchain protocols facilitate businesses to use new methods of processing digital transactions.[68] Examples include a payment system and digital currency, facilitating crowdsales, or implementing prediction markets and generic governance tools.
Blockchains alleviate the need for a trust service provider and are predicted to result in less capital being tied up in disputes. Blockchains have the potential to reduce systemic risk and financial fraud. They automate processes that were previously time-consuming and done manually, such as the incorporation of businesses.In theory, it would be possible to collect taxes, conduct conveyancing and provide risk management with blockchains.
As a distributed ledger, blockchain reduces the costs involved in verifying transactions, and by removing the need for trusted "third-parties" such as banks to complete transactions, the technology also lowers the cost of networking, therefore allowing several applications.
Starting with a strong focus on financial applications, blockchain technology is extending to activities including decentralized applications and collaborative organizations that eliminate a middleman.
Land registration
"Land is a financial source, if people can prove they own it, they can borrow against it."
Emmanuel Noah, CEO of Ghanian startup BenBen, New York Observer
Frameworks and trials such as the one at the Sweden Land Registry aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of the blockchain at speeding land sale deals.The Republic of Georgia is piloting a blockchain-based property registry.The Ethical and Fair Creators Association uses blockchain to help startups protect their authentic ideas.
The Government of India is fighting land fraud with the help of a blockchain.
In October 2017, one of the first international property transactions was completed successfully using a blockchain-based smart contract.
In the first half of 2018, an experiment will be conducted on the use of blocking technology to monitor the reliability of the Unified State Real Estate Register (USRER) data in the territory of Moscow.
The Big Four
Each of the Big Four accounting firms is testing blockchain technologies in various formats. Ernst & Young has provided cryptocurrency wallets to all (Swiss) employees,has installed a bitcoin ATM in their office in Switzerland, and accepts bitcoin as payment for all its consulting services. Marcel Stalder, CEO of Ernst & Young Switzerland, stated, "We don't only want to talk about digitalization, but also actively drive this process together with our employees and our clients. It is important to us that everybody gets on board and prepares themselves for the revolution set to take place in the business world through blockchains, [to] smart contracts and digital currencies."PwC, Deloitte, and KPMG have taken a different path from Ernst & Young and are all testing private blockchains.
Smart contracts
Blockchain-based smart contracts are contracts that can be partially or fully executed or enforced without human interaction.One of the main objectives of a smart contract is automated escrow. The IMF believes blockchains could reduce moral hazards and optimize the use of contracts in general.Due to the lack of widespread use their legal status is unclear.
Some blockchain implementations could enable the coding of contracts that will execute when specified conditions are met. A blockchain smart contract would be enabled by extensible programming instructions that define and execute an agreement.For example, Ethereum Solidity is an open-source blockchain project that was built specifically to realize this possibility by implementing a Turing-complete programming language capability to implement such contracts.
Nonprofit organizations
Level One Project from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to use blockchain technology to help the two billion people worldwide who lack bank accounts.
Building Blocks project from the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) aims to make WFP's growing cash-based transfer operations faster, cheaper, and more secure. Building Blocks commenced field pilots in Pakistan in January 2017 that will continue throughout spring.
Decentralized networks
The Backfeed project develops a distributed governance system for blockchain-based applications allowing for the collaborative creation and distribution of value in spontaneously emerging networks of peers.[88][89]
The Alexandria project is a blockchain-based Decentralized Library.
Tezos is a blockchain project that governs itself by voting of its token holders. Bitcoin blockchain performs as a cryptocurrency and payment system. Ethereum blockchain added smart contract system on top of a blockchain. Tezos blockchain will add an autonomy system – a decentralized code Development function on top of both bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.
Governments and national currencies
The director of the Office of IT Schedule Contract Operations at the US General Services Administration, Mr. Jose Arrieta, disclosed at the 20 Sep ACT-IAC (American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council) Forum that its organization is using blockchain distributed ledger technology to speed up the FASt Lane process for IT Schedule 70 contracts through automation. Two companies, United Solutions (prime contractor) and Sapient Consulting (subcontractor) are developing for FASt Lane a prototype to automate and shorten the time required to perform the contract review process.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, a subcommittee of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is working on finding practical ways Blockchain could be implemented in its duties.[1]
Companies have supposedly been suggesting blockchain-based currency solutions in the following two countries:
e-Dinar, Tunisia's national currency, was the first state currency using blockchain technology.
eCFA is Senegal's blockchain-based national digital currency.
Some countries, especially Australia, are providing keynote participation in identify the various technical issues associated with developing, governing and using blockchains:
In April 2016 Standards Australia submitted a New Field of Technical Activity (NFTA) proposal on behalf of Australia for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to consider developing standards to support blockchain technology. The proposal for an NFTA to the ISO was intended to establish a new ISO technical committee for blockchain. The new committee would be responsible for supporting innovation and competition by covering blockchain standards topics including interoperability, terminology, privacy, security and auditing.[99] There have been several media releases[100] supporting blockchain integration to Australian businesses.
Banks
Don Tapscott conducted a two-year research project exploring how blockchain technology can securely move and store host "money, titles, deeds, music, art, scientific discoveries, intellectual property, and even votes".. Furthermore, major portions of the financial industry are implementing distributed ledgers for use in banking, and according to a September 2016 IBM study, this is occurring faster than expected.
Banks are interested in this technology because it has potential to speed up back office settlement systems.
Banks such as UBS are opening new research labs dedicated to blockchain technology in order to explore how blockchain can be used in financial services to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Russia has officially completed its first government-level blockchain implementation. The state-run bank Sberbank announced 20 December 2017 that it is partnering with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to implement document transfer and storage via blockchain.
Deloitte and ConsenSys announced plans in 2016 to create a digital bank called Project ConsenSys.
R3 connects 42 banks to distributed ledgers built by Ethereum, Chain.com, Intel, IBM and Monax.
A Swiss industry consortium, including Swisscom, the Zurich Cantonal Bank and the Swiss stock exchange, is prototyping over-the-counter asset trading on a blockchain-based Ethereum technology.
Other financial companies.
The credit and debits payments company MasterCard has added three blockchain-based APIs for programmers to use in developing both person-to-person (P2P) and business-to-business (B2B) payment systems.
CLS Group is using blockchain technology to expand the number of currency trade deals it can settle.
VISA payment systems, Mastercard,Unionpay and SWIFT have announced the development and plans for using blockchain technology.
Prime Shipping Foundation is using blockchain technology to address issues related to the payments in the shipping industry.
Other uses
Blockchain technology can be used to create a permanent, public, transparent ledger system for compiling data on sales, storing rights data by authenticating copyright registration,[116] and tracking digital use and payments to content creators, such as musicians. In 2017, IBM partnered with ASCAP and PRS for Music to adopt blockchain technology in music distribution.Imogen Heap's Mycelia service, which allows managers to use a blockchain for tracking high-value parts moving through a supply chain, was launched as a concept in July 2016. Everledger is one of the inaugural clients of IBM's blockchain-based tracking service.
Kodak announced plans in 2018 to launch a digital token system for photograph copyright recording.
Another example where smart contracts are used is in the music industry. Every time a dj mix is played, the smart contracts attached to the dj mix pays the artists almost instantly.
An application has been suggested for securing the spectrum sharing for wireless networks.
New distribution methods are available for the insurance industry such as peer-to-peer insurance, parametric insurance and microinsurance following the adoption of blockchain.The sharing economy and IoT are also set to benefit from blockchains because they involve many collaborating peers.Online voting is another application of the blockchain. Blockchains are being used to develop information systems for medical records, which increases interoperability. In theory, legacy disparate systems can be completely replaced by blockchains.Blockchains are being developed for data storage, publishing texts and identifying the origin of digital art. Blockchains facilitate users could take ownership of game assets (digital assets),an example of this is Cryptokitties.
Notable non-cryptocurrency designs include:
Steemit – a blogging/social networking website and a cryptocurrency
Hyperledger – a cross-industry collaborative effort from the Linux Foundation to support blockchain-based distributed ledgers, with projects under this initiative including Hyperledger Burrow (by Monax) and Hyperledger Fabric (spearheaded by IBM)
Counterparty – an open source financial platform for creating peer-to-peer financial applications on the bitcoin blockchain
Quorum – a permissionable private blockchain by JPMorgan Chase with private storage, used for contract applications
Bitnation – a decentralized borderless "voluntary nation" establishing a jurisdiction of contracts and rules, based on Ethereum
Factom, a distributed registry
Tezos, decentralized voting.
Microsoft Visual Studio is making the Ethereum Solidity language available to application developers.
IBM offers a cloud blockchain service based on the open source Hyperledger Fabric project
Oracle Cloud offers Blockchain Cloud Service based on Hyperledger Fabric. Oracle has joined the Hyperledger consortium.
In August 2016, a research team at the Technical University of Munich published a research document about how blockchains may disrupt industries. They analyzed the venture funding that went into blockchain ventures. Their research shows that $1.55 billion went into startups with an industry focus on finance and insurance, information and communication, and professional services. High startup density was found in the USA, UK and Canada.
ABN Amro announced a project in real estate to facilitate the sharing and recording of real estate transactions, and a second project in partnership with the Port of Rotterdam to develop logistics tools.
Academic research
Blockchain panel discussion at the first IEEE Computer Society TechIgnite conference
In October 2014, the MIT Bitcoin Club, with funding from MIT alumni, provided undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology access to $100 of bitcoin. The adoption rates, as studied by Catalini and Tucker (2016), revealed that when people who typically adopt technologies early are given delayed access, they tend to reject the technology.
Journals
In September 2015, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology research, Ledger, was announced. The inaugural issue was published in December 2016. The journal covers aspects of mathematics, computer science, engineering, law, economics and philosophy that relate to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. There are also research platforms like Strategic coin that offer research for the blockchain and crypto space.
The journal encourages authors to digitally sign a file hash of submitted papers, which will then be timestamped into the bitcoin blockchain. Authors are also asked to include a personal bitcoin address in the first page of their papers.
Predictions
A World Economic Forum report from September 2015 predicted that by 2025 ten percent of global GDP would be stored on blockchains technology.
In early 2017, Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani said the blockchain is not a disruptive technology that undercuts the cost of an existing business model, but is a foundational technology that "has the potential to create new foundations for our economic and social systems". They further predicted that, while foundational innovations can have enormous impact, "It will take decades for blockchain to seep into our economic and social infrastructure."
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Is blockchain technology the new internet?
The blockchain is an undeniably ingenious invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
By allowing digital information to be distributed but not copied, blockchains create the backbone of a new type of internet. Originally devised for the digital currency, Bitcoin, the tech community is now finding other potential uses for the technology.
Bitcoin has been called “digital gold”, and for good reason. To date, the total value of currency is close to $9 billion US. And blockchains can make other types of digital value. Like the internet (or your car), you don’t need to know how the blockchain works to use it. However, having a basic knowledge of this new technology shows why it’s considered revolutionary.
What is Blockchain Technology? A step-by-step guide than anyone can understand
“The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.”
Don & Alex Tapscott, authors Blockchain Revolution (2016)
A distributed database
Picture a spreadsheet that is duplicated thousands of times across a network of computers. Then imagine that this network is designed to regularly update this spreadsheet and you have a basic understanding of the blockchain.
Information held on a blockchain exists as a shared — and continually reconciled — database. This is a way of using the network that has obvious benefits. The blockchain database isn’t stored in any single location, meaning the records it keeps are truly public and easily verifiable. No centralized version of this information exists for a hacker to corrupt. Hosted by millions of computers simultaneously, its data is accessible to anyone on the internet.
To go in deeper with the google spreadsheet analogy I would like you to read this piece from a blockchain specialist.
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Blockchain as Google Docs
“The traditional way of sharing documents with collaboration is to send a Microsoft Word document to another recipient, and ask them to make revisions to it. The problem with that scenario is that you need to wait until receiving a return copy before you can see or make other changes, because you are locked out of editing it until the other person is done with it. That’s how databases work today. Two owners can’t be messing with the same record at once.That’s how banks maintain money balances and transfers; they briefly lock access (or decrease the balance) while they make a transfer, then update the other side, then re-open access (or update again).
With Google Docs (or Google Sheets), both parties have access to the same document at the same time, and the single version of that document is always visible to both of them. It is like a shared ledger, but it is a shared document. The distributed part comes into play when sharing involves a number of people.
Imagine the number of legal documents that should be used that way. Instead of passing them to each other, losing track of versions, and not being in sync with the other version, why can’t *all* business documents become shared instead of transferred back and forth? So many types of legal contracts would be ideal for that kind of workflow.
You don’t need a blockchain to share documents, but the shared documents analogy is a powerful one.”
William Mougayar, Venture advisor, 4x entrepreneur, marketer, strategist and
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Durability and robustness
Blockchain technology is like the internet in that it has a built-in robustness. By storing blocks of information that are identical across its network, the blockchain cannot:
Be controlled by any single entity.
Has no single point of failure.
Bitcoin was invented in 2008. Since that time, the Bitcoin blockchain has operated without significant disruption. (To date, any of problems associated with Bitcoin have been due to hacking or mismanagement. In other words, these problems come from bad intention and human error, not flaws in the underlying concepts.)
The internet itself has proven to be durable for almost 30 years. It’s a track record that bodes well for blockchain technology as it continues to be developed.
Transparent and incorruptible
The blockchain network lives in a state of consensus, one that automatically checks in with itself every ten minutes. A kind of self-auditing ecosystem of digital value, the network reconciles every transaction that happens in ten minute intervals. Each group of these transactions is referred to as a “block”. Two important properties result from this:
Transparency
data is embedded within network as a whole, by definition it is public.
It cannot be corrupted
altering any unit of information on the blockchain would mean using a huge amount of computing power to override the entire network.
In theory, this could be possible. In practice, it’s unlikely to happen. Taking control of the system to capture Bitcoins, for instance, would also have the effect of destroying their value.
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If you frequently deal with the internet transactions then you must be very well aware of the bitcoin, which is prevailing in the market for the last few years. It is your cryptocurrency. When you deal with international transactions online, of course, there will be many digital medium of these transactions, Blockchain being the best one.
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Desdemona is a humanoid robot and the lead vocalist of the Jam Galaxy Band. Created by master artist and roboticist David Hanson and his team at Hanson Robotics, The band’s live shows showcase Desdemona’s AI-generated spoken word poetry and music, all the while supporting their mission to revolutionise the music industry through decentralised systems and blockchain technology.
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Desdemona the musician robot at the AI for Good Global Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, UN Photo / Elma Okic
Desdemona is a humanoid robot and the lead vocalist of the Jam Galaxy Band. Created by master artist and roboticist David Hanson and his team at Hanson Robotics, The band’s live shows showcase Desdemona’s AI-generated spoken word poetry and music, all the while supporting their mission to revolutionise the music industry through decentralised systems and blockchain technology.
Great team and inspiring startup from Estonia, Applehead Finance.
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Applehead Finance is accelerating the green transition with Web 3. Creating clean energy with carbon-neutral blockchain technology.
Really looking forward to follow their journey towards more educated, safer, sustainable, and circular societies. Good for people, the planet, and profit.
Great work, and happy weekend everyone.
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PS Check out Tehnopol Science and Business Park, a BIG thank you for hosting team Appleheads Strategy and pitch session, special thanks to Ragmar Saksing. DS
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“By 2030, Blockchain could be used as a foundational technology for 30 percent of the global customer base,” says Gartner’s research!
As the adoption of Blockchain continues to impact business operations dramatically.
Here’s Deepak Chhabra, president Global Delivery, QSS Technosoft, explaining the trends of Blockchain Technology & how it holds endless possibilities for today's & future businesses!
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The blockchain is such a recent development in the tech world. It is a digital ledger that provides a secure way of making and recording transactions, agreements, and contracts – anything that needs to be recorded and verified as having taken place. To know more about blockchain Technology www.mazenetsolution.com/blockchain-technology-training-co...
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Over the past year, with the generous support of Innovation Norway, UN Women has been assessing the potential of leveraging blockchain technologies to address challenges faced by women and girls in humanitarian settings.
As part of this work, UN Women, in partnership with the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN OICT) hosts a four-day Simulation Lab from January 29 to February 1, 2018 at the UN Women New York Headquarters.
This Lab enables UN Women to explore, in collaboration with the private sector, cutting-edge solutions that hold potential for closing gender gaps in humanitarian action.
Based on the results of the Lab, four to five solution providers will be invited to submit a request for proposal (RFP). UN Women intends to pilot two to four solutions in the eld in collaboration with its UN and private sector partners and with the support of Innovation Norway, with the intention to thereafter upscale the most successful solutions as part of UN Women’s Global Flagship Programmes for Disaster Risk Reduction (Gender Inequality of Risk) and Crisis Response and Recovery (LEAP-Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection).
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Inspiring STRATEGY and PITCH practice session with team Apple heads Co-founders Henrik and Richard at Tehnopol in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Applehead Finance is accelerating the green transition with Web 3. Creating clean energy with carbon-neutral blockchain technology.
Really looking forward to follow their journey towards more educated, safer, sustainable, and circular societies. Good for people, the planet, and profit.
Great work, and happy weekend everyone.
Follow them and sign up for the newsletter.
PS Check out Tehnopol Science and Business Park, a BIG thank you for hosting team Appleheads Strategy and pitch session, special thanks to Ragmar Saksing. DS
Supported by CleanTech Region Impact Group.
All rights reserved (c) Copyright
Over the past year, with the generous support of Innovation Norway, UN Women has been assessing the potential of leveraging blockchain technologies to address challenges faced by women and girls in humanitarian settings.
As part of this work, UN Women, in partnership with the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN OICT) hosts a four-day Simulation Lab from January 29 to February 1, 2018 at the UN Women New York Headquarters.
This Lab enables UN Women to explore, in collaboration with the private sector, cutting-edge solutions that hold potential for closing gender gaps in humanitarian action.
Based on the results of the Lab, four to five solution providers will be invited to submit a request for proposal (RFP). UN Women intends to pilot two to four solutions in the eld in collaboration with its UN and private sector partners and with the support of Innovation Norway, with the intention to thereafter upscale the most successful solutions as part of UN Women’s Global Flagship Programmes for Disaster Risk Reduction (Gender Inequality of Risk) and Crisis Response and Recovery (LEAP-Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection).
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Over the past year, with the generous support of Innovation Norway, UN Women has been assessing the potential of leveraging blockchain technologies to address challenges faced by women and girls in humanitarian settings.
As part of this work, UN Women, in partnership with the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN OICT) hosts a four-day Simulation Lab from January 29 to February 1, 2018 at the UN Women New York Headquarters.
This Lab enables UN Women to explore, in collaboration with the private sector, cutting-edge solutions that hold potential for closing gender gaps in humanitarian action.
Based on the results of the Lab, four to five solution providers will be invited to submit a request for proposal (RFP). UN Women intends to pilot two to four solutions in the eld in collaboration with its UN and private sector partners and with the support of Innovation Norway, with the intention to thereafter upscale the most successful solutions as part of UN Women’s Global Flagship Programmes for Disaster Risk Reduction (Gender Inequality of Risk) and Crisis Response and Recovery (LEAP-Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection).
Pictured: Simulation participants fill out evaluations and leave comments regarding the eight blockchain solutions they were presented with.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/2/news-event-blockch...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown