San Francisco-based entrepreneur Santiago Siri celebrated the arrival of his baby daughter Roma in a rather different way this week – by registering her birth on the bitcoin blockchain.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital world by enabling distributed consensus without compromising privacy or relying on third parties. It establishes an irrefutable public record of digital events and transactions through techniques like cryptographic verification of transactions and chronological chaining of transaction "blocks". This allows various applications in financial areas like banking as well as non-financial areas like notarization, insurance, and more. The report examines some key applications and opportunities of this disruptive technology.
Expanding Beyond Cryptocurrency in the Digital World using Blockchain TechnologyYogeshIJTSRD
A blockchain is principally a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that are executed and shared among the participating parties. Once entered, information can never be erased. The blockchain encompasses a precise and supportable record of each solo transaction ever made in the history of all the transactions. Bitcoin, the decentralized digital currency, is that the most well liked example that uses blockchain technology. The digital currency bitcoin itself is extremely controversial but the underlying blockchain technology has worked flawlessly and located a good range of applications in both the financial and nonfinancial world. Anirvan Vinod "Expanding Beyond Cryptocurrency in the Digital World using Blockchain Technology" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd43871.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/other/43871/expanding-beyond-cryptocurrency-in-the-digital-world-using-blockchain-technology/anirvan-vinod
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Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital world by enabling distributed consensus without compromising privacy or relying on third parties. It establishes an irrefutable public record of digital events and transactions through techniques like cryptographic verification of transactions and chronological chaining of transaction "blocks". This allows various applications in financial areas like banking as well as non-financial areas like notarization, insurance, and more. The report examines some key applications and opportunities of this disruptive technology.
Expanding Beyond Cryptocurrency in the Digital World using Blockchain TechnologyYogeshIJTSRD
A blockchain is principally a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that are executed and shared among the participating parties. Once entered, information can never be erased. The blockchain encompasses a precise and supportable record of each solo transaction ever made in the history of all the transactions. Bitcoin, the decentralized digital currency, is that the most well liked example that uses blockchain technology. The digital currency bitcoin itself is extremely controversial but the underlying blockchain technology has worked flawlessly and located a good range of applications in both the financial and nonfinancial world. Anirvan Vinod "Expanding Beyond Cryptocurrency in the Digital World using Blockchain Technology" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd43871.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/other/43871/expanding-beyond-cryptocurrency-in-the-digital-world-using-blockchain-technology/anirvan-vinod
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Blockchain for Land Records and Real EstateJohn Mirkovic
An in-depth presentation on why and how blockchain technology can be applied to keeping government records of real estate transactions. Information on how bitcoin and blockchains function.
Blockchain: What can it do? quick intro (1)Shane Ninai
The document introduces the blockchain and how it gives all digital assets an online economic identity, allowing for direct peer-to-peer transactions without third parties. It discusses how current online commerce relies on intermediaries like payment processors and banks. The blockchain allows for global inclusion by enabling anyone with an internet connection to transact directly. It establishes a decentralized ledger that records all transactions publicly and securely without centralized control.
A general discussion on the benefits of the blockchain technology. How it creates trust and how this may be applied. We discuss the blockchain generally in terms of the byzantine generals problem, central v distributed and decentralised ledgers and the double spend problem.
It is the aim of this paper that those reading it should recognise the leapfrog potential of this technology. It is the biggest innovation since the internet.
Feel free to reach out and connect if you have any questions.
shane.ninai@gmail.com
Great starting point for understanding some of the more relevant benefits, features, and operation of Distributed Ledger Technology (blockchain) and its uses, particularly for federal government missions.
7 Predictions & Future Trends of Blockchain Technology for 2021ArpitGautam20
This document discusses 7 predictions for blockchain technology in 2021. It predicts that national cryptocurrencies will emerge as countries like Russia propose them. It also predicts that blockchain will be adopted by financial institutions for areas like payments. Blockchain is predicted to be integrated into government entities to improve security and management of citizen data. There will be an increased demand for blockchain experts as the technology is adopted. Blockchain startups will face challenges as the technology evolves. Smart contracts will integrate legal frameworks to resolve disputes. Blockchain will be combined with IoT for secure communication between devices.
Melanie Swan, an economic theorist from New York, gave a presentation on blockchain payment systems. She discussed how blockchain technology could enable new types of digital payment systems that are like email for money, Skype for money, and Apple Pay for governments. She covered various applications of blockchain for consumer payments, enterprise payments, and institutional payments. She believes blockchain payments could improve access to financial services for billions of individuals worldwide by providing solutions for remittances, credit reporting, and literacy programs.
G494 Team 5 Blockchain Use in Decentralized TechnologiesDan Casey
This document provides an overview of blockchain technology and its applications. It begins with explaining how blockchain works through distributed ledgers and encryption. It then discusses how blockchain originated from Bitcoin and the 2008 financial crisis. The document evaluates how blockchain can improve financial services through increased transparency, security and reduced costs. It also examines Bitcoin in detail as the primary application of blockchain, how it functions through peer-to-peer transactions and mining, and its volatile value. Additional applications discussed include using blockchain for banking, legal contracts, and intellectual property rights.
【Blockchain EXE NY】Self Sovereign Identity - Smart homes & Smart contractsblockchainexe
This document discusses self-sovereign identity and how it can be realized using blockchain and smart contracts. It outlines some of the challenges with today's identity systems such as inaccessibility, insecurity, and inefficiency. Self-sovereign identity systems based on blockchain allow for user-controlled, distributed, and private identities. Ethereum and identity solutions like uPort aim to address these challenges by providing verifiably credible decentralized identities on the blockchain while improving privacy, security, and usability. The document also discusses opportunities for combining Ethereum, IoT, and self-sovereign identity systems.
Apple co founder steve wozniak to start a blockchain startupBlockchain Council
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, is starting a blockchain startup despite previously doubting blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The document discusses key features of blockchain like decentralization, immutability, and cost-effectiveness that are driving interest in the technology. Wozniak's new startup will create an investment platform that is secure, transparent, and easy for investors of all levels to use. He now believes blockchain offers great opportunities for companies.
You can choose the Blockchain certification course offered by Blockchain Council. These online certification programs are a great way to ensure that you become a part of the ever-changing and growing technologies.
Deck presented during "BVL Webinar Blockchain" dated Aug 16, 2017. Focussing on the deployment of blockchain in supply chain management and transport logistics.
This is a presentation I delivered in Feb 2019 regarding my book "Blockchain Guida all'Ecosistema" https://amzn.to/2EejKKn (ebook) https://amzn.to/2EbELW7 (paperback).
Kopi Chat Introduction to Blockcain 29 November 2017BLOCK71 Jakarta
Topics covered include:
Introduction to Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and Initial Coin Offerings
Introduction to Ethereum and Smart Contracts
Introduction to most used Blockchain terms
Blockchain technology applications and use cases to businesses
About the speaker
Budi Sukmana, Founding Member of Indonesian Blockchain Network.
Budi is currently head of business development in SkytreeDGTL. Having over 7+ years in professional product & business development in property developer company, he now puts great interest in Blockhain technology and recently obtained his Certified Bitcoin Professional from CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium. Budi holds Bachelor of Architecture from Catholic Parahyangan University.
This event is supported by the Indonesian Blockchain Network, Indonesian blockchain advocacy group, accommodating and facilitating the growth of digital ledger and cryptocurrency technology.
Blockchain and the Future of Real Estate Industry: Is Revolution Coming?Denis Nemtsev
This document discusses how blockchain technology can revolutionize the real estate industry. It begins by explaining blockchain and how it provides a solution for money transfers by allowing fast, low-fee, peer-to-peer transactions without an intermediary. Blockchain principles like distributed ledgers and miners are also outlined. The document then explores several potential applications of blockchain in real estate, such as digitizing property titles to provide a single source of trust and streamlining transactions. Smart contracts are discussed as enabling online property crowdfunding and trading of shares. Finally, the document proposes a decentralized "Wikipedia for real estate data" to solve problems with inconsistent property listings information.
Bitcoin Blockchains on Twitter timelines: A Social Media analysis of cryptocu...Alexia Maddox
Presentation at Concordia University October 2018
Dr Alexia Maddox, Lecturer in Communications, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.
Email: a.maddox@deakin.edu.au
Keywords:
Social media analysis; twitter; cryptocurrencies; social disruption; digital trace data.
Abstract
Cryptocurrencies represent emerging financial technologies engendered through overlapping community values of decentralised peer-to-peer exchange, encryption technologies and an overarching agenda towards the disruption of centralised banking within the fiat economy. This paper will trace the development and shifts in public discourse within social media surrounding cryptocurrencies. The last five years have seen cryptocurrencies move from technological emergence to a broadening range of applications and history potholed with disputes, divergence, hacks and scams within the community. The accompanying influence of speculation has shifted the focus from social adoption to value volatility and seen the incorporation of associated technologies within banking and other organisational processes. The emphasis within public discourse has also followed a shift from bitcoin to blockchain. The study is grounded through a Twitter analysis of cryptocurrency-related social media discourse within the Australian context. The social media analysis works with social media archives of the Australian Twittersphere captured between early 2012 to May 2017. Access to this curated archive is through TrISMA and the timeframe under analysis aligns with the most detailed available dataset. The analysis seeks to characterise the emergence of public dialogue surrounding cryptocurrency use and application over time, focusing on peak engagement events. The key concepts directing the focus and interpretation of the social media analysis include financial inclusion, socio-technical disruption and social change. The whimsical quest of the study is to learn where the digital frontier has shifted to within this community and point to possible future developments. From a community studies perspective the case study represents an initial foray into data analytics to explore whether it is possible to detect the shifting shape and form of digital community through its environmental imprint (Maddox 2016). This methodological aspect of the work speaks to an attempt to generate a data recognition practice that can be deployed to search for signatures of social disruption within digital trace data.
Bio:
Alexia Maddox is a digital sociologist with research interests are community studies, research methods and digital frontiers. Here recent book, Research Methods and Global Online Communities: a case study with Routledge, combines these areas and forms the basis of her study of emerging communities forming through the internet and cryptography.
The document discusses how blockchain technology could revolutionize various sectors by enabling direct peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries. It describes how blockchain ledgers could help improve foreign aid distribution, supply chain transparency, universal identities, property rights records, remittances, and enable a true sharing economy. Blockchain advocates argue it has the potential to reduce costs and corruption while increasing access, trust, and transparency compared to current centralized systems.
CES 2017 FinTech trend: Blockchain Technology by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, AdgetecMark Mueller-Eberstein
Trend you can't miss at #CES2017 in Las Vegas.
Mark Mueller-Eberstein (Advisor to CXOs and CEO of Adgetec), explains how blockchain technology is changing not only #FinTech, but broader industry and why #China has a special opportunity for success leveraging the innovation.
This document discusses opportunities and challenges for blockchain technology in the insurance industry. It begins by explaining what blockchains and bitcoin are, highlighting key characteristics like security, transparency, and low transaction costs. Blockchains could reduce insurance fraud by providing permanent ledgers and could enable smart contracts to automate certain insurance processes. However, smart contracts still require an "oracle" to verify events in the physical world. The document examines how blockchains could impact different parts of the insurance value chain and considers several real-world blockchain insurance projects and examples.
UK BANKS REFUSED 6 MILLION CITIZENS ACCOUNTS, BITCOIN DOESN’T REFUSE ANYONESteven Rhyner
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NEXT BTC SCAM WANTS YOU: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE FALL INTO FINANCIAL TRAPSSteven Rhyner
As the number of new Bitcoin users and transactions grow, the number and sophistication of scams in the community continues to reach new heights. Why are so many people getting scammed over and over again?
Blockchain for Land Records and Real EstateJohn Mirkovic
An in-depth presentation on why and how blockchain technology can be applied to keeping government records of real estate transactions. Information on how bitcoin and blockchains function.
Blockchain: What can it do? quick intro (1)Shane Ninai
The document introduces the blockchain and how it gives all digital assets an online economic identity, allowing for direct peer-to-peer transactions without third parties. It discusses how current online commerce relies on intermediaries like payment processors and banks. The blockchain allows for global inclusion by enabling anyone with an internet connection to transact directly. It establishes a decentralized ledger that records all transactions publicly and securely without centralized control.
A general discussion on the benefits of the blockchain technology. How it creates trust and how this may be applied. We discuss the blockchain generally in terms of the byzantine generals problem, central v distributed and decentralised ledgers and the double spend problem.
It is the aim of this paper that those reading it should recognise the leapfrog potential of this technology. It is the biggest innovation since the internet.
Feel free to reach out and connect if you have any questions.
shane.ninai@gmail.com
Great starting point for understanding some of the more relevant benefits, features, and operation of Distributed Ledger Technology (blockchain) and its uses, particularly for federal government missions.
7 Predictions & Future Trends of Blockchain Technology for 2021ArpitGautam20
This document discusses 7 predictions for blockchain technology in 2021. It predicts that national cryptocurrencies will emerge as countries like Russia propose them. It also predicts that blockchain will be adopted by financial institutions for areas like payments. Blockchain is predicted to be integrated into government entities to improve security and management of citizen data. There will be an increased demand for blockchain experts as the technology is adopted. Blockchain startups will face challenges as the technology evolves. Smart contracts will integrate legal frameworks to resolve disputes. Blockchain will be combined with IoT for secure communication between devices.
Melanie Swan, an economic theorist from New York, gave a presentation on blockchain payment systems. She discussed how blockchain technology could enable new types of digital payment systems that are like email for money, Skype for money, and Apple Pay for governments. She covered various applications of blockchain for consumer payments, enterprise payments, and institutional payments. She believes blockchain payments could improve access to financial services for billions of individuals worldwide by providing solutions for remittances, credit reporting, and literacy programs.
G494 Team 5 Blockchain Use in Decentralized TechnologiesDan Casey
This document provides an overview of blockchain technology and its applications. It begins with explaining how blockchain works through distributed ledgers and encryption. It then discusses how blockchain originated from Bitcoin and the 2008 financial crisis. The document evaluates how blockchain can improve financial services through increased transparency, security and reduced costs. It also examines Bitcoin in detail as the primary application of blockchain, how it functions through peer-to-peer transactions and mining, and its volatile value. Additional applications discussed include using blockchain for banking, legal contracts, and intellectual property rights.
【Blockchain EXE NY】Self Sovereign Identity - Smart homes & Smart contractsblockchainexe
This document discusses self-sovereign identity and how it can be realized using blockchain and smart contracts. It outlines some of the challenges with today's identity systems such as inaccessibility, insecurity, and inefficiency. Self-sovereign identity systems based on blockchain allow for user-controlled, distributed, and private identities. Ethereum and identity solutions like uPort aim to address these challenges by providing verifiably credible decentralized identities on the blockchain while improving privacy, security, and usability. The document also discusses opportunities for combining Ethereum, IoT, and self-sovereign identity systems.
Apple co founder steve wozniak to start a blockchain startupBlockchain Council
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, is starting a blockchain startup despite previously doubting blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The document discusses key features of blockchain like decentralization, immutability, and cost-effectiveness that are driving interest in the technology. Wozniak's new startup will create an investment platform that is secure, transparent, and easy for investors of all levels to use. He now believes blockchain offers great opportunities for companies.
You can choose the Blockchain certification course offered by Blockchain Council. These online certification programs are a great way to ensure that you become a part of the ever-changing and growing technologies.
Deck presented during "BVL Webinar Blockchain" dated Aug 16, 2017. Focussing on the deployment of blockchain in supply chain management and transport logistics.
This is a presentation I delivered in Feb 2019 regarding my book "Blockchain Guida all'Ecosistema" https://amzn.to/2EejKKn (ebook) https://amzn.to/2EbELW7 (paperback).
Kopi Chat Introduction to Blockcain 29 November 2017BLOCK71 Jakarta
Topics covered include:
Introduction to Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and Initial Coin Offerings
Introduction to Ethereum and Smart Contracts
Introduction to most used Blockchain terms
Blockchain technology applications and use cases to businesses
About the speaker
Budi Sukmana, Founding Member of Indonesian Blockchain Network.
Budi is currently head of business development in SkytreeDGTL. Having over 7+ years in professional product & business development in property developer company, he now puts great interest in Blockhain technology and recently obtained his Certified Bitcoin Professional from CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium. Budi holds Bachelor of Architecture from Catholic Parahyangan University.
This event is supported by the Indonesian Blockchain Network, Indonesian blockchain advocacy group, accommodating and facilitating the growth of digital ledger and cryptocurrency technology.
Blockchain and the Future of Real Estate Industry: Is Revolution Coming?Denis Nemtsev
This document discusses how blockchain technology can revolutionize the real estate industry. It begins by explaining blockchain and how it provides a solution for money transfers by allowing fast, low-fee, peer-to-peer transactions without an intermediary. Blockchain principles like distributed ledgers and miners are also outlined. The document then explores several potential applications of blockchain in real estate, such as digitizing property titles to provide a single source of trust and streamlining transactions. Smart contracts are discussed as enabling online property crowdfunding and trading of shares. Finally, the document proposes a decentralized "Wikipedia for real estate data" to solve problems with inconsistent property listings information.
Bitcoin Blockchains on Twitter timelines: A Social Media analysis of cryptocu...Alexia Maddox
Presentation at Concordia University October 2018
Dr Alexia Maddox, Lecturer in Communications, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.
Email: a.maddox@deakin.edu.au
Keywords:
Social media analysis; twitter; cryptocurrencies; social disruption; digital trace data.
Abstract
Cryptocurrencies represent emerging financial technologies engendered through overlapping community values of decentralised peer-to-peer exchange, encryption technologies and an overarching agenda towards the disruption of centralised banking within the fiat economy. This paper will trace the development and shifts in public discourse within social media surrounding cryptocurrencies. The last five years have seen cryptocurrencies move from technological emergence to a broadening range of applications and history potholed with disputes, divergence, hacks and scams within the community. The accompanying influence of speculation has shifted the focus from social adoption to value volatility and seen the incorporation of associated technologies within banking and other organisational processes. The emphasis within public discourse has also followed a shift from bitcoin to blockchain. The study is grounded through a Twitter analysis of cryptocurrency-related social media discourse within the Australian context. The social media analysis works with social media archives of the Australian Twittersphere captured between early 2012 to May 2017. Access to this curated archive is through TrISMA and the timeframe under analysis aligns with the most detailed available dataset. The analysis seeks to characterise the emergence of public dialogue surrounding cryptocurrency use and application over time, focusing on peak engagement events. The key concepts directing the focus and interpretation of the social media analysis include financial inclusion, socio-technical disruption and social change. The whimsical quest of the study is to learn where the digital frontier has shifted to within this community and point to possible future developments. From a community studies perspective the case study represents an initial foray into data analytics to explore whether it is possible to detect the shifting shape and form of digital community through its environmental imprint (Maddox 2016). This methodological aspect of the work speaks to an attempt to generate a data recognition practice that can be deployed to search for signatures of social disruption within digital trace data.
Bio:
Alexia Maddox is a digital sociologist with research interests are community studies, research methods and digital frontiers. Here recent book, Research Methods and Global Online Communities: a case study with Routledge, combines these areas and forms the basis of her study of emerging communities forming through the internet and cryptography.
The document discusses how blockchain technology could revolutionize various sectors by enabling direct peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries. It describes how blockchain ledgers could help improve foreign aid distribution, supply chain transparency, universal identities, property rights records, remittances, and enable a true sharing economy. Blockchain advocates argue it has the potential to reduce costs and corruption while increasing access, trust, and transparency compared to current centralized systems.
CES 2017 FinTech trend: Blockchain Technology by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, AdgetecMark Mueller-Eberstein
Trend you can't miss at #CES2017 in Las Vegas.
Mark Mueller-Eberstein (Advisor to CXOs and CEO of Adgetec), explains how blockchain technology is changing not only #FinTech, but broader industry and why #China has a special opportunity for success leveraging the innovation.
This document discusses opportunities and challenges for blockchain technology in the insurance industry. It begins by explaining what blockchains and bitcoin are, highlighting key characteristics like security, transparency, and low transaction costs. Blockchains could reduce insurance fraud by providing permanent ledgers and could enable smart contracts to automate certain insurance processes. However, smart contracts still require an "oracle" to verify events in the physical world. The document examines how blockchains could impact different parts of the insurance value chain and considers several real-world blockchain insurance projects and examples.
UK BANKS REFUSED 6 MILLION CITIZENS ACCOUNTS, BITCOIN DOESN’T REFUSE ANYONESteven Rhyner
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NEXT BTC SCAM WANTS YOU: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE FALL INTO FINANCIAL TRAPSSteven Rhyner
As the number of new Bitcoin users and transactions grow, the number and sophistication of scams in the community continues to reach new heights. Why are so many people getting scammed over and over again?
BIS: DIGITAL CURRENCIES COULD DISRUPT CENTRAL BANKING MODELSteven Rhyner
Digital currencies could disrupt the ability of central banks to exercise control over the economy or issue money should the technology scale, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a new report released today.
The article discusses the importance of Bitcoin and how it can disrupt the global financial system in the same way the internet disrupted long-distance phone calls. It argues that while blockchains are gaining attention, Bitcoin itself enables valuable applications by allowing instant, low-cost international money transfers without intermediaries. Ordinary people may not use Bitcoin directly, but it has the potential to improve financial inclusion for billions around the world who face issues like high transfer fees, currency controls, and lack of access to banks. Startups are exploring how to use Bitcoin's capabilities to modernize outdated global financial infrastructure.
UK REGULATORS DECLARE START OF “BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP” WITH BITCOIN, ETHEREUMSteven Rhyner
Christopher Woolard, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Director of Strategy and Competition, announced a regulatory sandbox for fintech companies, a first of its kind. Harriett Baldwin, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, described Bitcoin and Ethereum as “digital currencies” and proclaimed the start of a “beautiful friendship”.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TAKES INITIATIVE TO PUT CRYPTOCURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN ON FAS...Steven Rhyner
Things are moving quickly in Europe at the moment in regards to cryptocurrency and theBlockchain. The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament scheduled to vote on the virtual currencies report in a matter of days, with the hot summer for cryptocurrency and Blockchain legislation ahead.
GOOGLE FAILURE, ETHEREUM LEAPS, ECB GIVEOUT IN COINTELEGRAPH DAILY DIGESTSteven Rhyner
This Friday the media discuss Google’s prank failure, Bitcoin investment, Ethereum potential, and executives not feeling responsible for cybersecurity. Cointelegraph has collected important news to help you stay informed.
THE DARK MARKET OPENBAZAAR TO BECOME AN ADVANCED EBAY, NOT THE NEXT SILK ROADSteven Rhyner
The document discusses how OpenBazaar, a decentralized marketplace platform, is developing into a more advanced version of eBay rather than the next Silk Road online black market. While early expectations viewed OpenBazaar as an anonymous marketplace for illicit goods, developments show it targeting mainstream e-commerce users. Features like displaying IP addresses and the traceability of bitcoin payments mean illicit goods can be identified, as OpenBazaar aims to compete with Amazon and eBay rather than enable illegal sales like Silk Road.
VOTE FOR CRYPTO! BITCOIN VS. GREENBACK IN US ELECTIONSSteven Rhyner
In 2015, Rand Paul became the first major U.S. presidential candidate to accept Bitcoin for campaign donations. Several other candidates for lower office have accepted Bitcoin before and have since, leveraging its ease of use and ability to energize new donor bases.
WHY I’M PREDICTING A $650 BITCOIN IN 2016Steven Rhyner
On 23rd July, I predicted on Quora that the price of bitcoin at the end of the year would rest around $420. It appears at press time that I was not far off. As of 30th December, the bitcoin price is around $425.
ASK THE EXPERT: DO VEGETARIANS LIVE LONGER?Steven Rhyner
Search Google and you’ll discover millions of articles regarding the pros and cons of both meat-o-phile and meat-free lifestyles. Frustratingly, many of these articles tend to manipulate the data to serve the writer’s oft-dogmatic hypothesis. Frankly, I don’t blame them, given that data on how meat affects the human body tends to be vague and confusing.
DONATING IN BITCOIN IS PRACTICAL AND EMPOWERS THE COUNTERCULTURESteven Rhyner
Nonprofit organizations employ Bitcoin donations to save on transaction costs and protect donor identity. Bitcoin can also simplify the donation process.
BITCOIN IN THE TIME OF NEGATIVE INTEREST RATESSteven Rhyner
The Central Banks of Japan and Europe have imposed negative interest rates on deposits. Would these blunt monetary tools of Central Bankers be effective if bitcoin adoption becomes widespread?
Prosecutors refer to Bitcoin Fog as the “go to” service for criminals wanting to hide their money. A novel aspect of this trial will be what we are calling a Bitcoin Fog social media defense.
https://youtu.be/Q1_Wttdjc-Q
Bitcoin Loses a Highly Valued Asset—Anonymity - WSJ.pdfeymisc
1) Authorities have developed new tools using blockchain analytics to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions, piercing the veil of anonymity that blockchain previously provided.
2) They have mapped over a billion wallet addresses and can now trace funds stolen in crimes like the $600,000 bitcoin theft by James Zhong in 2012 that authorities recently recovered, worth $3.4 billion due to bitcoin's rise in value.
3) Blockchain analytics firms like Chainalysis provide law enforcement with data to link wallet addresses to individuals and map transaction flows, aiding in seizures of over $10 billion in digital currency from prosecutions.
No matter how the trial turns out, we are interested in knowing the extent to which assets on the blockchain are really private or totally transparent to those with the right tools. Does crypto tracing work and could that cause problems for you?
https://youtu.be/euoDADYsl58
Blockchain technology establishes a distributed consensus model that allows digital events and transactions to be recorded in an immutable public ledger. It solves the problem of ordering transactions in a distributed peer-to-peer network by grouping transactions into blocks and linking the blocks through a blockchain. Miner nodes verify transactions and add them to blocks by solving a mathematical puzzle. The network accepts the longest blockchain as the valid one, making it extremely difficult for fraudulent transactions to be introduced. Blockchain technology is finding applications in both financial areas like banking as well as non-financial areas by enabling the automatic execution of smart contracts.
Blockchain technology establishes a distributed consensus by creating an irrefutable record of digital events in a public ledger. This allows entities to verify digital transactions and assets without an intermediary. The technology is beginning to disrupt many industries and represents opportunities for financial applications like banking as well as non-financial uses such as notarization, insurance, and more. The report examines the history of blockchain technology and how it works, then discusses some existing and potential future applications of this disruptive technology.
Carlos Moreira is the founder and CEO of WISeKey, a Swiss cybersecurity company focused on protecting personal data and privacy on the internet. Moreira believes that technology should serve and empower humans, not replace them. WISeKey offers encryption apps and services to protect personal communications and prevent data from being used for advertising without consent. Moreira sees blockchain technology and peer-to-peer transactions replacing the role of banks and wants to ensure users remain in control of their digital identity. With rapid growth of internet-connected devices, WISeKey aims to be a global alternative platform to Silicon Valley giants that protects privacy.
The document discusses the effects of advanced technology in digital currency. It describes how the first digital currency, Bitcoin, was created in 2009 and how it works through blockchain technology, allowing peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries. Three main effects of digital currency are discussed: 1) Its role in illegal activities like drug trafficking due to anonymity. 2) Positive economic impacts like lower transaction fees and supporting growth. 3) Potential to replace fiat currency over time. While digital currency enables new opportunities, governments remain concerned about its use in illegal markets and unregulated activities.
Bitcoin's first week in El Salvador faced several issues including problems with the government-run Chivo app, unclear regulations, and a lack of cryptocurrency education for citizens. While some protests occurred, experts said political opponents exaggerated their size for political reasons and drowned out valid concerns like Bitcoin's volatility. Even for crypto-literate people, signing up for and using Chivo raised privacy and access issues due to the app's vague data sharing policy and inability to register without a Salvadoran ID number. Overall, the rollout faced challenges scaling up efforts to educate the unbanked population and provide regulatory clarity for existing businesses.
BITCOIN PRICE GROWS AS TRUMP TAKES OFFICE, BLOCKCHAIN COUNCIL CREATED IN DAVOSSteven Rhyner
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Rafael Oliveira : The fact that this new framework was released so soon after the country’s cryptocurrency law was approved demonstrates that Brazilian institutions are anxious to regularize the status of digital assets in several areas.
After initially refusing to allow funds to participate in cryptocurrencies in 2018, the Brazilian Securities Commission itself made a U-turn.
Suraj Prasad Chaudhary presented on the scope of blockchain-based cryptocurrency in India. The presentation covered an introduction to blockchain and cryptocurrency, a literature review on related research, an overview of the existing cryptocurrency system in India and its drawbacks. The proposed system would provide transparency through an immutable ledger, lower transaction costs, and opportunities for entrepreneurship. The objectives are to leverage blockchain's anonymity, applications beyond currency, and potential for government services like land records. The presentation discussed the principles of cryptocurrency, system architecture, events in India's cryptocurrency history, and comparisons with China. It concluded by noting India's complicated relationship with cryptocurrency and potential for growth if implemented properly.
FAMILY OFFICES SEE LEGITIMACY IN SECURITIZED BITCOIN INVESTMENTSSteven Rhyner
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This document discusses new technologies and their potential impact. It begins by discussing how innovation is happening more rapidly than ever before. It then provides background on Bitcoin and blockchain technology, explaining how Bitcoin introduced an anonymous digital currency and how the blockchain allows for transparent yet encrypted transactions. It discusses various applications of blockchain beyond just currency, including how it solves the "Byzantine Generals Problem" of ensuring compliance in distributed networks. It concludes by promising to discuss additional new technologies like AI, robotics, medicine and their future impact in an upcoming discussion.
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Discussion: Personal and Professional Social Work Values
Heterosexism is defined as "the discrimination or prejudice by heterosexuals against homosexuals" (merriam-webster.com) and is predicated on the belief that being heterosexual is the norm and the only accepted type of relationship.
Everyday heterosexism is exemplified in our media, our policies, and daily practices. By making these assumptions, social workers can be in part culpable for the oppression and marginalization experienced by the LGBTQ community.
As a profession, social work embraces diversity and strives to ensure equal rights for all. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is committed to supporting the needs of these groups and, in turn, they created the National Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues. During this week's discussion, you will be asked to consider how one's own personal views on sexual orientation may clash with the profession's stance.
Post a scenario of how a social worker's personal, ethical, and moral values in relation to the LGBTQ community might conflict with those of their clients. Explain the distinction between personal ethics and values and professional ethics and values evident in the social work profession in addressing this community. Be specific and explain how this distinction relates to the scenario you posted. Also, explain how prejudice and bias might create barriers to fulfilling your professional responsibility to the LGBTQ community.
References:
Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J., Castaneda, C., Catalano, D. C. J., DeJong, K., Hackman, H. W,... Zuniga, X. (Eds.). (2018). Readings for diversity and social justice (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge Press.
· Chapter 73, The interSEXion: queer progressive agenda (pp. 391-394)
· Chapter 66, Privilege (pp. 367-370)
· Chapter 69, Women & LGBT people under attack: 1903s and now (pp. 378-381)
· Chapter 85, Mestiza/o gender: Notes toward transformative masculinity (pp. 434-439)
· Chapter 72, Introduction-How sex changed: A history of transsexuality (pp. 388-390)
· Chapter 76, Transgender liberation (pp. 400-403)
· Chapter 81, Mutilating gender (pp. 419-425)
· Chapter 83, Trans woman manifesto (pp. 429-432)
· Chapter 77, The Impact of juvenile court on Queer and trans/gender non-conforming youth (pp. 403-406)
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Running head: Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency 1
Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency 8Bitcoin as a Cryptocurrency of Misconduct
Roger F. Lewis
Miami Dade College-North Campus
June 5, 2019
Bitcoin as a Cryptocurrency of Misconduct
In the expansion of cryptocurrencies in particular bitcoins have resulted in providing clients with exceptional advantages, the advantages in this matter have not had their hazards and struggles. In the peculiar free mode in the cryptocurrency arcade, it has been in constant misuse and linked to several illegal activities. Lawmakers globally repetitively stumble upon this very position (Anon,2019). The tendency on allowing a market to settle on its fosters this activity as the lawmakers tend to abstain from events of the market. They cannot also sit by and enable misconduct behaviors to foster in the markets. Tracking the cryptocurrency action has proved to be much more complicated than the standard plugged-in transactions. The bottom line is that these transactions occur globally has established a headache to try and monitor this particular field. The release of the bitcoin in the year two thousand and nine as the world’s pioneer and most profound mode of cryptocurrency was a breakthrough in the industry. Cryptocurrency, on the other hand, is the mode of exchange that occurs only in the digital dimension. Cryptocurrency uses complex codes as a skill of protecting data. Thus, monetary transactions are carried out most safely (Anon,2019). A public ledger is used to know the actual owner of a particular cryptocurrency.
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Meet the Dad Who Registered His Daughter’s Birth on the
Blockchain
San Francisco-based entrepreneur Santiago Siri celebrated the arrival of his baby daughter Roma in a rather
different way this week – by registering her birth on the bitcoin blockchain.
Doing so seemed like a natural step for Siri, whose interest in decentralisation and blockchain technology is
evidenced by his role at democracy.earth where he is working with Pia Mancini, Roma’s mother, on upcoming
blockchain projects.
Spurred on by a meeting with Ryan Shea, co-founder of identity protocol startup OneName, Siri decided to record
Roma’s birth on the blockchain – excited by the idea of doing so on a decentralised database that fell outside of any
government’s control.
Siri told CoinDesk:
“The first database entry done to every single human being born until now has always been on a
governmental database. Having Roma be the first exception to that, having her identity registered first
in the blockchain [rather] than anywhere else, is a powerful statement that declares her a citizen of
Earth rather than an arbitrary piece of territory controlled by central power.”
2. “This was her first birth certificate and
as such it’s a simple piece of data
that can always be proven anywhere
in the world with an Internet
connection. Politically speaking, that’s
incredibly powerful if you think about it. While states rely on closed bureaucracies to support their institutional belief
system, the world has the Internet and the blockchain,” he added.
Registering the birth
Siri’s family, perhaps unsurprised by the entrepreneur’s ongoing fascination with technology, welcomed the idea to
register Roma’s arrival on the blockchain.
“Those close to me already know how passionate I am about blockchain and civic technologies in general. My family
probably thinks that I am a bit crazy, but when I consulted Pia to do this she gave me her full support,” said Siri,
adding:
“She’s also a firm believer in the revolutionary implications this new wave of the Internet can have for
generations to come.”
To register the birth, Siri first filmed a video, stating the baby’s full name, date and location of birth and hashed it on
the blockchain using blockchain verification service Proof of Existence. In so doing, the entrepreneur ensured that the
file was notarised and validated by bitcoin’s mining network, a global network of computers contributing to the ledger.
To validate the process further, Siri also added his testimony and included that of Roma’s mother and her two
grandmothers.
Additional proof was provided in the form of the hospital birth certificate, although in the video Siri purposely noted
that the birth had taken place in San Francisco and refrained from mentioning a nation state or a specific
geographical location or jurisdiction.
He also showed a screenshot which displayed the last mined block on the blockchain.
“No one can challenge that [the] file was shot before Sunday, 8th November or modify its content without altering the
proof, making this file a valid certificate of the events it describes,” he added.
Love at first sight
Siri also used his interview to speak about his interest in the technology, which began in 2011, and how it could grow
to impact the world his daughter grows up in.
“It was love at first sight, specially for someone living in a country like Argentina with high inflation and inability to
acquire foreign currency,” he told CoinDesk.
These technologies, he said, have an intrinsic emancipating force which help users become independent agents:
“[Bitcoin and blockchain] do not require permission and it immediately connects anyone to a financial
system that’s not controlled by governments or banks. And in my view, what the web has done for
media and culture, the blockchain will do for institutions and human organisations.”
3. Siri speaks from experience, noting how he’s seen the extent to which this nascent technology has proved for
activists in his native South America.
Similarly to his contemporaries, the entrepreneur explained that he believes blockchain’s and bitcoin’s biggest
potential lies in developing countries where there is an urgent need for alternative systems to transform the status
quo.
Siri said he is close to the blockchain and decentralised community in the San Francisco area, but cautioned that
there is still a long way to go before this technology fulfills its potential.
“Developing these kind of applications is not trivial, it still feels like [only] a few [are] working on this extremely
innovative piece of technology and certainly we are at the early days of the revolution,” he concluded.
Identity on the blockchain
The blockchain’s potential for identity registration has been highlighted in the past, with various companies in the
space working specifically on this use case.
ShoCard – which recently raised $1.5m in funding– is seeking to leverage blockchain technology for identity
management.
Open-source identity protocol provider OneName, which received seed funding from investors including Barry Silbert
and San Francisco-based investment firm SV Angel, is also working to disrupt the way in which identity is managed
online.
Further afield, the possibility of using a decentralised ledger to register identity has also caught the attention of
celebrities such as Lucy Liu, who was revealed as a surprising advocate during the private Block Chain Summit held
at Richard Branson’s private island earlier this year.
Re-posted from www.coindesk.com November 14, 2015 by Yessi Bello Perez
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