by Justin O'Connell | January 17, 2020 | Hedera | 0 Comments

Lionel Chocron, Chief Product Officer at Hedera Hashgraph, began building three to five years ago at Oracle a portfolio of private ledger cloud solutions for large companies. Customers at Oracle were adopting blockchain technology quicker than they were adopting AI...

by Justin O'Connell | January 5, 2020 | MakerDAO | 0 Comments

The MakerDAO stablecoin, DAI, is pegged to the $1 US Dollar, not by holding US dollar reserves in a bank account equivalent to the amount of tokens in the system like the stablecoin Tether, but, rather, by holding in a smart contract collateralized assets, such as...

by Justin O'Connell | December 23, 2019 | Enterprise | 0 Comments

PG&E’s self-proclaimed ‘Blockheads’, who were assigned to investigate how to implement blockchain into PG&E’s business, chose the California low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) as an initial testing ground. PG&E choose LCFS, which has about 250-300 active...

by Justin O'Connell | November 16, 2019 | Stellar | 0 Comments

During CoinAgenda at Las Vegas Blockchain Week 2019, Michael Terpin and Jed McCaleb chatted fireside about the state of Stellar, a value-transfer network that strives to be a faster and cheaper way to send money.  During the discussion, Mr. Terpin, who leads the...

by Justin O'Connell | November 4, 2019 | Distributed Ledgers, Hyperledger | 0 Comments

“I can see that a lot of the opportunities I've had for things that landed in my lap are thanks to privilege,” said Behlendorf, who is the primary developer of the Apache Web server, a free and open-source cross-platform web server software. “It takes a bit of smarts...

by Justin O'Connell | October 24, 2019 | Blockchains, Ethereum, Smart Contracts | 0 Comments

The co-founders behind Lucid Sight have worked in the gaming industry for a couple decades, long before launching the MLB-Licensed MLB Crypto Baseball.  When the iPhone was new, and before the app store launched, Lucid Sight CEO Randy Saaf had a game in the app...

by Justin O'Connell | October 4, 2019 | Blockchains, Cryptocurrency, Metronome, Smart Contracts | 0 Comments

Launched in 2018, Metronome is an autonomous cryptocurrency originally developed by Bloq and its BloqLabs group, both led by former Bitcoin core developer and Metronome Chief Architect Jeff Garzik. Metronome supports use cases such as a store of value, unit of...

by Justin O'Connell | September 18, 2019 | Blockchain, Communications | 0 Comments

When he founded Wachsman, a blockchain-focused professional services agency based in Manhattan, CEO David Wachsman didn’t know what to expect.  “I had absolutely no idea,” he told me. “Anyone who would say they had a vision that it would look like this –...

by Justin O'Connell | July 12, 2019 | Blockchains | 0 Comments

If you’re an expert in the cryptocurrency space, you know how to set up a wallet, manage that wallet, and do all of those things, says Bundil founder and Chief Executive Officer Dmitri Love. But, a lot of people that get into the space face a huge barrier to...

by Justin O'Connell | July 7, 2019 | Blockchains | 0 Comments

John Burbank,  a global investor for 18 years, spoke April 20 at StartEngine ICO 2.0 Spring Summit in Santa Monica, California. The San Francisco-based founder of Passport Capital, a global investment firm, has placed his money in more than 100 startups and 20...