Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
The West Virginia blockchain voting pilot just records the votes in a private blockchain, used as a database. Apparently, this is a big win for voting on the blockchain.
Quinn DuPont’s book is going to be a good one, and you should get it when it’s out.
I did a talk today — here’s the slides. Explaining blockchains, why Bitcoin fans are like they are, and blockchain use cases in business.
Today’s blockchain post is over on Rocknerd — it’s early dot-com era downloaded music company eMusic taking the final resort of an utterly buggered company.
Of course it isn’t like the Internet. But this claim keeps coming up. Includes technologies Bitcoin and blockchains are actually comparable to.
Crypto Fools’ Day is, of course, January 9. In cryptocurrency, every day is January 9.
We’ve been reminded in the past week just how dangerous vast collections of personal data can be. They won’t be less dangerous on a blockchain.
The EU Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is voting on a motion that’s a compendium of every spurious hypothetical blockchain use case they could find — so it’s worth answering in full. Contact your MEPs as well.
Wüst and Gervais’ paper “Do you need a Blockchain?” is pretty good, but goes a bit far in claiming use cases for blockchains. You’ll basically never need a so-called “permissioned blockchain.”
This is the final word on Kodak’s crypto boondoggles. And it’s brutal.