Not exact matches
«There's nothing magical
about the
blockchain that absolves you from investor protection regulations if investors have to trust you to deliver
something.»
Most treasurers get the theory, and most know
something about the many pilot projects and consortia working on
blockchain solutions, but what products actually exist and how do they benefit corporates today?
The only thing people seem to care
about is whether or not you're doing
something with the
Blockchain.
On that note, Mark Carney - the governor of the Bank of England - made a speech at the Deutsche Bundesbank G20 conference this week where he spoke
about some of the considerations the Bank makes when deciding whether
something like
blockchain should be brought into its regulatory perimeter.
This means that the
Blockchain is extremely secure, but the trouble with having this clever but complicated bit of tech in place is that it makes getting the concept of Bitcoin right hard, and lots of people aren't prepared to invest in
something they don't know anything
about.
So that's the full version of that and then what I say Tom is, I think
about it, where it can have the impact on lawyers is that if you're involved in
something where there is an exchange of Bitcoin, you may need to understand how
Blockchain works.
If more financial institutions continue to deploy Ripple's
blockchain, and the company sees a boost in payouts via transaction fees, then yes, investors have
something to be excited
about.
While it's tough to look at that chart and not think this is a speculative mania, there is
something about Bitcoin that's captured the public's imagination — whether it's the varied potential applications of the underlying
blockchain technology, the idea of Bitcoin as «digital gold,» or the promise of a currency immune to central banker meddling.
I now take everything I've learned
about business, financial services, technology and
blockchains and I distill it into
something (hopefully) useful for you.
The initial idea behind the summit was to create a place where human to human discussions could be held in the spirit of the «Homebrew Computer Club (HCC)» (albeit a little higher end, and with kitesurfing between sessions) to advance the community's thinking on the required infrastructure and applications to allow
Blockchain to be used for societal good — and to actively do
something about it, in the same way that the early attendees of HCC were builders, not just «talkers».
His project itself builds upon that notion by adding more utility to the
blockchain, thereby creating
something everyone will want to hear
about.
While it may have some security implications, MetaMask contributes greatly to the mainstream - ization of
blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in general with its simplicity and ease of use —
something you'll see in our post
about running your own private
blockchain.
Something O'Toole said he admired
about the DBI approach was it encouraged regulators to learn how
blockchain works and «embrace the technology, not squelch it.»
The ICO was held to help establish the Telegram Open Network (TON), a «fast, scalable, and user - friendly» cryptocurrency and
blockchain platform —
something which Iran is apparently quite worried
about.
Blockchain technology will play an important role in the battle against counterfeit goods, assuming manufacturers are willing to do
something about this problem in the first place.
Twenty - seventeen was all
about which Asian economy would next ban crypto, but with news that China is creating its own
Blockchain currency, this year is likely to be
something of the opposite.
Say what you will
about Cryptokitties, but the app does
something today that nearly all enterprise
blockchains still can not: exchange one item of value, a cryptokitty, for another item of value, ether.
The Lisk team (and community) are solid, and their head - on approach to fundamental
blockchain problems is
something to get excited
about.
It states that it has been able to save reasonable sums that it would have paid to financial servicing institutions who would have under normal circumstances served as middlemen (
something blockchain avoids), and charged them
about 3.5 %.
And the Ethereum
Blockchain is
something to know
about