The NFX Guild, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator, has partnered with Synereo, a blockchain-based, decentralized social network, to develop an ecosystem of decentralized applications (dApps) on top of Synereo’s Blockchain 2.0 platform. The organizations share the vision of a freer and fairer Internet. Synereo’s technology for the next class of the NFX Guild accelerator program. The program...
Synereo, a blockchain-based, decentralized social network and a platform allowing web applications to exist without centralized servers, has released information about how its technology improves over the bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. Synereo's "Technology Stack" enables its social network to function without centralized servers, which are normally required for the processing of network...
Recently noted Bitcoin developer and commentator, Peter Todd, interviewed Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of ethereum. Their conversation ran the gamut, but some of the most interesting ground they covered were the public and private applications of blockchain tech. As Todd put it, 2016 is shaping up to be the "year of enterprise" for blockchain technology. Large raises for companies that have...
What do you think big data is? BBC’s technology news presentation - Click, brought its beauty and use to us in 25 minutes of film time. Those involved with the interviewing or creation of the presentation walked through London’s prestigious Imperial College and the Somerset House using the Big Bang Data exhibition as a platform to expose big data in a way that is visually appealing, but...
Empowering artists through the blockchain is something that has reached an international audience. Informing a global audience about the advantages of the blockchain far outweigh the negative publicity that it has received. In a TechCrunch interview at a Disrupt conference in London, Imogen Heap gives a detailed description of her MiMu gloves used in performances, but also a very real idea of...
R3, a bank consortium working to create industry standards for using block chain technology in banking, has released a paper claiming efforts to modify public block chains to secure off-chain assets using colored coins and metacoins do not provide secure, legal settlement finality of those assets. Titled “Watermarked Tokens and Pseudonymity on Public Block Chains,” the paper argues that a...