Author: Frank A.
A gentle introduction to smart contracts
What are people talking about when they talk about smart contracts? In the context of blockchains and cryptocurrencies, smart contracts are: – pre-written logic (computer code), – stored and replicated on a distributed storage platform (eg a blockchain), […]
Ukraine Government Plans to Trial Ethereum Based Election Platform
A group of Ukrainian officials signed a memorandum late last week to move multiple levels of elections to the Ethereum blockchain using E-vox, a platform developed by a group of companies including […]
Ethereum skyrockets, now bigger than all other altcoins combined
The price of Ether shot past benchmark levels such as USD 9 and Ethereum’s market cap is now well above 10% of Bitcoin’s. In the past few months it seems like […]
7 Cool Decentralized Apps Being Built on Ethereum
Imagine a company or service that isn’t controlled by any single individual, board or other central entity. Known as a decentralized application, or ‘dapp’ for short, the concept has been one […]
Gatecoin CEO: Ethereum drastically increased our trading volumes
Aurélien Menant is the co-founder and CEO of Gatecoin, a regulated cryptocurrency exchange that also partners with banks to develop blockchain remittance solutions. He is also a founding member of the bitcoin association […]
How blockchain tech could change the way we do business
Blockchain the technology underpinning digital currency Bitcoin has been in the news lately. Banks think it could be the future of financial transactions, while diamond miners hope it will help […]
How decentralized applications bring the blockchain to new industries
From socializing to hailing a cab to finding our way around, there’s an app to help. Now, there is a new and improved model that is revolutionizing the way we […]
Hong Kong based Gatecoin aims to solve international wire transfer headaches
A new Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange, Gatecoin, is looking to solve two of the biggest headaches in the bitcoin trading industry today: shaky security and inefficient fiat transfers. There is no […]
Imogen Heap: saviour of the music industry?
In our age of Spotify, most artists fail to get a fair deal. But with help from coders, Imogen Heap is leading the fightback, using a technology that could revolutionise […]
Augur Ethereum based Prediction Market Elected as a Finalist at Exponential Finance 2015
Augur, a fully-decentralized, open-source prediction market platform based on blockchain technology, intended to revolutionize forecasting, decision-making and the manner in which information consensus is collected and aggregated, has been selected […]