If There Was No Blockchain, It Would Have to Be Invented
This article was written by philosophist and member of Russia’s Futurology Association Alexander Boldachev exclusively for ForkLog.
If There Was No Blockchain, It Would Have to Be Invented
This article was written by philosophist and member of Russia’s Futurology Association Alexander Boldachev exclusively for ForkLog.
Ethereum Classic, Blockchain Investments and Charlie Shrem Freed. Cryptospace News, July 17 – 24
Ethereum hard fork and advent of Ethereum Classic, the ecosystem of bitcoin and altcoins, state regulation and private business’s interest towards blockchain technology, as well as a few stories from the dark side – all in ForkLog’s traditional weekly overview.
Blockchain and Civil Rights
One of the problems inherent in modern-day social and financial system is the degree of their transparency. The very wording seems inappropriate, as you would hardly ever see something this opaque unless you look under someone’s eyelids on the morning of January 1st.
Education with Blockchain
There wasn’t anything resembling modern day education system in ancient times. Back then, schools provided only the knowledge strictly required to survive in contemporary society, like skills of counting, reading, writing, and other information depending on the school’s geographic location. In ancient Greece, there was an entire concept dubbed kalokagathia, which was later incorporated in […]
CEO of Steemit: Blockchain-Based Social Media Gives People Their Freedom Back
Founders of Steemit, a platform rewarding its users for creating and curating content, believe that  blockchain technology can be applied to social media. Forklog discussed the idea of leveraging the technology behind bitcoin for social media applications with Ned Scott, Steemit Co-founder and CEO. Forklog: The first question is about the basic idea of a […]
Some thoughts on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
There is a concept dubbed ‘suspension of disbelief’, which means that any work of art like a movie, a book, or a comic, incorporates some circumstances that the audience automatically perceives as true, whatever stupid they might be, as long as they are a basic premise. It also means that any other stupid thing not […]
Internet of People: Founder of Fermat Presents Project’s Perspective Of Peer-to-Peer Economy
ForkLog talked with Luis Molina, leader of initiative on creating a blockchain-based platform for p2p apps Fermat about the opportunities of creating decentralized services. The issues of existing internet centralization, end-to-end encryption of personal data and sharing economy emergence hit the headlines every now and then. Sharing economy principles found in Uber and Airbnb becomes […]
BitFury to Eliminate Corruption With Blockchain Technology
Full service blockchain technology company The Bitfury Group has joined forces with the non-governmental organization the National Democratic Institute to form the Blockchain Trust Accelerator Initiative.
QIWI: Five Banks to Join Russian Take on R3
Russia’s blockchain consortium will initially incorporate five banks along with the project’s initiator, payments processor QIWI, and the Bank of Russia as a regulator.
Expert View: Applying Blockchain Tech to Artificial Intelligence
Distributed ledger technology may be successfully applied to develop artificial intelligence projects, thinks Dr. Maxim Orlovsky, Ukrainian complex systems and neuroscience expert.
Meanwhile in Asia: Cryptotechnologies and Economies
Cryptoeconomy becomes more and more entwined with the traditional one. Beginning as a crypto-anarchist utopia, the ecosystem keeps on evolving, and currently it starts influencing what happens in the big financial world. In this brief overview, we’ll attempt to show how it happens in Asia.
Cryptospace News Digest, June 5 – 12
Bitcoin heading to the Moon, raging bitcoin extortionists, good news from Russia and Ethereum expansion — all main events of the cryptoindustry in the week’s overview. Bitcoin Price For the first time in two years, bitcoin price has surpassed the $600 mark. Last Saturday, bitcoin’s market cap has reached $9 billion, and Sunday the exchange […]We use cookies to improve the quality of our service.
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