The Caisse des Dépôts group launched an innovation lab (Paris) in partnership with eleven sector players, including AXA. This initiative aims at exploring the impacts and opportunities offered by the...
Comprehensive Analysis & Startups Involved. The concept of blockchain has energized the financial services industry globally. The interest of financial institutions on blockchain is quite evident...
It’s going to unshackle us from the oppressive dungeon of fiat currency! But also criminals and rogue cops use it to do nefarious drug stuff! Digital currency is often defined by its volatile hype...
By David Yermack, New York University (NYU) professor. Blockchains represent a novel application of cryptography and information technology to age-old problems of financial record-keeping, and they...
By Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President and Director, IBM Research. The Linux operating system started as a gleam in the eye of a Finnish university student, Linus Torvalds, who simply wanted to...
New project, Decred, is set to improve on Bitcoin issues relating to governance and development funding - two troublesome areas. As the popular digital currency Bitcoin continues to grow, insiders to...
New open ledger project to transform the way business transactions are conducted around the world. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today...
As Bitcoin and Blockchain investment fast approaches $1bn, we have spent the last three months speaking with over 30 of the leading Bitcoin and Blockchain companies globally (with c. $500m of total...
Zerocash is a new protocol that provides a privacy-preserving version of Bitcoin (or a similar currency). Zerocash fixes an inherent weakness of Bitcoin: every user's payment history is recorded in...
