«Some sought to preserve self - government
by decentralising economic power and bringing it under democratic control.
«We are shaping the big society of the future
by decentralising power and empowering people.
In short, the EPPO will be characterised
by a decentralised and integrated structure.
The largest crowdsale in history has been organised
by a decentralised autonomous organisation (The DAO), an investment platform without a managing centre, which has attracted over $ 132 million.
By decentralised voting holders of 97 % of ethers have shown unanimous support to a hard fork as an optimum way to return the funds stolen on 17 June by an anonymous malefactor.
Not exact matches
EOS, simply put, is a futuristic platform for developing
decentralised software applications, and is being built
by parent company Block.one, which took the wraps off it at the digital currency conference Consensus in New York in June.
Advocates for the technology say transparency is ensured
by the encrypted audit trail and because blockchains are open and
decentralised, allowing different parties to share information.
Lighthouse, developed
by Mike Hearn, a former Google engineer, runs a
decentralised crowdfunding platform on bitcoin.
What was meant to be a new,
decentralised form of money that lacked «systemically important institutions» and «too big to fail» has become something even worse: a system completely controlled
by just a handful of people.
They can be utilised within a singular platform or externally and were created in order to offer four key benefits; a
decentralised, peer - to - peer payment network, a network which has no server and is not controlled
by a single entity, no double spending, and a trustworthy and reliable payment method.
While Bitcoin is derided as useless, the blockchain - a
decentralised system, controlled
by nobody and impervious to fraud - is a brilliantly useful idea.
▪ The US» 2nd Amendment was created
by the Founding Fathers as a tool to
decentralise power.
Cardano will also run
decentralised applications, or dapps, services not controlled
by any single party but instead operate on a blockchain.
Transaction fee Because cryptocurrencies are
decentralised, each transaction must be verified
by a third party on the network.
Decentralised ledger This is a ledger that is held
by everyone on the network and records the movement of each token on the network.
We believe that
decentralised digital currencies like Bitcoin will fundamentally change how the world views and uses money: cheaper, faster and safer transactions; more privacy and financial freedom; a significantly better user experience; and ultimately, more equality
by giving everyone in the world access to the same financial system.
Later, we focused on data validity and integrity
by supporting the fact that
decentralised blockchains are less prone to errors.
Anaerobic digestion facilities have been recognised
by the United Nations Development programme as one of the most useful
decentralised sources of energy supply, as they are less capital - intensive than large power plants.
«However, the best form of restructuring that Nigeria needs now is not merely to
decentralise power but to cede power completely to the private sector whilst government contributes its quota
by providing the enabling environment for the much needed industrialisation and technological advancement that will take us out of our present doldrums..
We (I was the Liberal Democrats» director of policy between 1999 and 2004) developed a modern restatement of the social liberalism, called «New Liberalism» in its day, espoused
by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and
decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
The Lib Dems,
by contrast, he said, would
decentralise health and education, giving people back power and, in turn, the responsibility to take a more active part in society.
The various Australian governments are going part of the way to
decentralise energy and water
by providing rebates on solar panels and water tanks.
The research pointed at Australia's
decentralised education system and said increasing the clarity of policies and finding within it needs attention, and added that the country's high education performance can be complemented with further focus on reducing inequities
by tackling system - level policies hindering equity in education.
Suggestive of liminal spaces, each work bears a
decentralised composition held together
by its own resonant energy: paint is pushed and pulled across the canvas, built up and withdrawn, lapses and drifts and, suddenly, announces its place.
Kheirkhah's multi - disciplinary art practice and her specific focus on
decentralising the generalising cultural forms of categorization, explores the representations of the so called «Middle Eastern» female identities through a practice which is generated
by the interplay of history, politics, media and visual arts within contemporary Western visual culture.
An autonomous flying swarm of 300 drones, it is the first time that a natural phenomenon will be imitated
by machines working with
decentralised algorithms at this scale.
Afrique Capitales, conceptualised
by leading curator Simon Njami, takes a stance for a
decentralised view on contemporary art.
This is despite
decentralised energy technologies being the most economical solution to meet the needs of the majority of unconnected people
by 2030.
Other benefits include a reduction in the energy required for cooling (because the roofs are shaded
by panels), and a stable, lower cost,
decentralised renewable energy system.
Even more embarrassingly for the embattled Mr Brown, the report closely mirrors policies announced
by the Conservative Party six months ago to start «a
decentralised energy revolution»
by «enabling every small business, every local school, every local hospital, and every household in the country to generate electricity».
The Fossil Free website is the main platform for
decentralised campaigning and organising supported
by 350.org.
The amount of energy each individual
decentralised battery has charged or discharged is registered and stored
by a blockchain.
The second place was shared
by the companies Pichler and bluMartin for their centralised and
decentralised facade - integrated ventilation concepts respectively.
There is a similar range of solutions in other Southeast Asian countries: renewables - based
decentralised solutions (particularly those powered
by solar photovoltaics) are prominent in Myanmar, where they account for around 60 % of new connections, with half of the 24 million people currently without access gaining access specifically through solar PV.
In Papua, where the bulk of new connections come from
decentralised technologies, innovative grid solutions including small - scale gas - fired plants dotted around the island and fed
by liquefied natural gas, also play an important part in bringing universal access.
What does matter is that the gross capacity of central systems can keep on being reduced
by the combination of negawatts and
decentralised generation.
By ensuring reliable electric supply through
decentralised solar photovoltaic installations, Chhattisgarh in central India has boosted public healthcare outcomes
In fact, all the new and exciting business models that are upending traditional markets, hinge on controlling the increasingly cheap energy that is being digitally supplied
by decarbonised,
decentralised resources.
The second D - decentralisation - comes hot on the heels of the first: Clean technologies like wind and solar are
decentralised by their very nature.
«We believe that
by using
decentralised technology to connect latent resources on the supply side (under - utilised lawyers) with newly discovered resources on the demand side (donations that were never aimed at the legal industry) we can change the access to justice paradigm,» Ghiassi said.
A «virtual» law firm is a
decentralised legal practice where lawyers work remotely and use shared services provided
by a central hub, as such they are at the top - end of the gig economy.
RISE Vision PLC (token symbol RISE) is an ecosystem for developers, offering a platform for the development of
decentralised applications powered
by a community - driven Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) blockchain.
Invented
by a 23 - year - old programmer named Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum is an open source program that offers
decentralised smart contracts through its Ethereum Virtual Machine, which has been picked up
by several banks.
The
decentralised Ethereum network is run
by computers around the world, and developers and users pay for computing resources with Ether.
The newly formed Centralway Ventures, which will be headquartered in London's Somerset House, is making its first investment in YC - and Google Ventures - backed Buttercoin: a Bitcoin startup that is looking to disrupt the international remittances market
by leveraging the
decentralised digital cryptocurrency to shrink cross-border transaction costs.
Grand in scale and flexible
by design, it aims to
decentralise pretty much anything on the Internet.
Ethereum is a blockchain platform which allows developers to build
decentralised applications, fuelled
by a cryptocurrency called Ether.
Valorem, like many other cryptocurrency platforms is a
decentralised blockchain that was launched to create a new level of trust between individual users
by using the Valorem Platform as a means of verifying transactions.
Bitcoin was the first ever «cryptocurrency» designed
by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 as a
decentralised alternative to fiat currency.
BNE in partnership with a number of terminal retailers is combining its community vision with innovation
by working with TravelbyBit to bring
decentralised block chain enabled payments into its termi...