Tag: Blockchain

Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight, The Panopticon Penitentiary and The Democratic Geneva Convention. Same Same but not all that different.

by on November 5, 2018 5:24 pm
Fact: Your body sheds 50 million skin cells every day in homeostatic conditions. Fact: An American adult will spend up to 11 hours per day engaging in watching, reading, listening or simply interacting with media on a daily basis. Our dermis carries in it our DNA telling a story of our epigenetic environment. Similarly, the… Read more Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight, The Panopticon Penitentiary and The Democratic Geneva Convention. Same Same but not all that different.

Integrating Blockchain in IoT

by on August 3, 2018 10:00 am
With the development of Internet and hardware devices and huge demand of all kinds of data and service, the popularity of IoT is irreversible. According to Milo Werner’s talk in class, there will be more than 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Devices like smart phones, surveillance camera and various kinds of sensors are connected… Read more Integrating Blockchain in IoT

Plato's Republic of Blockchain. Re-tooling Lincoln's vision.

by on July 28, 2018 6:23 pm
Lincoln’s fabled quote: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth” could never have contended the reality it does in 2018 all over the world. Democracy is in peril. Trust as the currency of governance has lost its value in a world where demagoguery wins the day.… Read more Plato's Republic of Blockchain. Re-tooling Lincoln's vision.

From Cyber to BlockChain, How Can Security Carry On

by on July 27, 2018 11:11 am
Ever since web 1.0, 30 years of human efforts have been made to guard the security of WWW. Together with the technology breakthroughs like online banking, cloud computing and IoT, cyber attack also diverges into multiple directions. As Steve Herrod, Managing Director of General Catalyst and Ex-CTO of VMWare, mentioned last week, those attacks widely… Read more From Cyber to BlockChain, How Can Security Carry On

Blockchain + AI

by on July 25, 2018 7:03 pm
I totally agree with this statement: AI is new productive forces and Blockchain is new productive relations. “AI, Blockchain and the Internet of Things” is the new “Social, Mobile and Cloud”. AI + Blockchain is a very exciting and challenging hot topic. Interestingly, AI and Blockchain have many opposite aspects [1]. For instance, AI is centralized… Read more Blockchain + AI

Blockchain 2.0, Blockchain + IoT

by on July 19, 2018 6:47 pm
Blockchain Past, Now, Future Blockchain’s origin was as the base technology that supported Bitcoin. It comes from Bitcoin, but it is more than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a very successful application built on Blockchain technology. Started in 2009, Blockchain has evolved in three phases. Blockchain 1.0 (past, now):     digital currency, like bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin, OKcoin… Read more Blockchain 2.0, Blockchain + IoT

Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?

by on July 19, 2018 10:38 am
  What has not been digitalized yet? Online shopping is becoming more popular and electronic books are common these days. In the business field, there are many buzz words such as “edtech”, ”fintech”, ”insurtech”, etc. which means that introducing new technology is the current trend. But some claim that digitalizing everything has a lot of… Read more Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?

Potential Future of Cloud Security

by on July 13, 2018 11:25 am
Presence of Cloud Security The application of cloud computing is ubiquitous since 2008 and the industry has experienced a fast growth with exceeding performance.  The future of cloud will put emphasis on flexibility of solutions where customers could use hybrid IT solution that balances scalability and flexibility of cloud as well as the security of… Read more Potential Future of Cloud Security

Is Blockchain a future? Yes, of course!

by on July 12, 2018 9:16 am
Blockchain is definitely one of the “hot” buzzwords nowadays. What is Blockchain exactly? There are many explanations of Blockchain. I love this definition [1] from The Wall Street Journal. “A blockchain is a data structure that makes it possible to create a digital ledger of transactions and share it among a distributed network of computers.… Read more Is Blockchain a future? Yes, of course!

Blockchain and Roadblocks

by on July 10, 2018 10:12 am
While the rest of the world seems disillusioned by cryptocurrencies, all in the red after the frenzy of the last months of 2017, it seems that Bitcoin found an improbable adopter in the people of Venezuela. But first, let’s take a look at the troubled history of Venezuela’s fiat currency. The current fiat currency of… Read more Blockchain and Roadblocks