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Governments and Industries Worldwide Gear Up to the Disruptive Blockchain

Ready to learn Blockchain? Browse courses like Blockchain for Finance Professionals developed by industry thought leaders and Experfy in Harvard Innovation Lab.​ The US House of Representatives has given the green light to the Blockchain technology, advocating that the new-era innovation be implemented as a “national policy for technology to promote consumers’ access to financial tools and online commerce to promote economic growth

Blockchain Could Help Us Reclaim Control of Our Personal Data

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have increased the awareness of distributed ledgers with their use of a particular type of ledger — blockchain — to hold the details of coin accounts among millions of users. Cryptocurrencies have certainly had their own problems with their wallets and exchanges 

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‘Initial Coin Offerings’: What You Need to Know

Ready to learn Blockchain? Browse courses like Blockchain for Finance Professionals developed by industry thought leaders and Experfy in Harvard Innovation Lab. Floyd “Money” Mayweather made headlines for making light work of Mixed Martial Arts superstar Conor McGregor. But he also made tech headlines recently by endorsing the Hubii Network, an initial coin offering (ICO), on his Instagram and

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  • Please Tell Me, “How Do I Prove a Blockchain Transaction is Mine?”

    Ready to learn Blockchain? Browse courses like Blockchain for Finance Professionals developed by industry thought leaders and Experfy in Harvard Innovation Lab. In my previous article, I explained the mechanics of the Blockchain and how blocks are linked into an immutable chain with clever crypto functions. These blocks contain many transactions which are supposed to be anonymous. But what do

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    The benefits and challenges of tokenizing social media

    While many of the industries professing to make revolutionary use of distributed ledgers hardly offer a relevant use case, social media is one of the fields that can benefit immensely from blockchain and tokenized economies. Social media data is where blockchain can help. In a nutshell, blockchain is a distributed ledger or database. When you port social media to the blockchain, the immediate benefit users will gain is exclusive ownership of their data. 

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    The Dark Side of Blockchain

    Ready to learn Blockchain? Browse courses like Blockchain Technology Fundamentals developed by industry thought leaders and Experfy in Harvard Innovation Lab. Source: z0h3 on DeviantArt Star Wars is a compelling story about a little kid called Anakin Skywalker. Branded ‘the Chosen One’, Anakin is the saga’s messiah who holds great promise to bring balance to the force and ensure peace

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    How Can Blockchain Solve the Shortcomings of Predictive Analytics?

    Predictive analytics, as an evolving domain based on Big Data and AI, requires a considerable amount of information for training the model. Sometimes, locally, this is scarce or unscalable, but imagine putting together data from thousands of similar users. Suddenly, the lack of data is no longer a problem and patterns emerge more easily. This gives a real chance to smaller companies, like start-ups, to take advantage of the blockchain model for their operations and use the data generated in the process as a by-product to feed various prediction models. 

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    Blockchain Scaling: Relax and Trust the Process

    Blockchains and cryptocurrencies are a new technology, while Bitcoin has existed for 10 years. If you have followed the discussion that has emerged around this technology, you have probably encountered debates about scaling. Scaling is the process of engineering blockchains to be able to process a greater number of transactions, computations, and applications. Essentially, it is the question of how do we make this technology more efficient and applicable. Blockchains are notoriously slow, inefficient, and more difficult to scale than traditional technology due to the constraints of working with a decentralized network. 

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    The future of AI is on blockchain

    The three currently most prominent enterprise technologies are without doubt AI, blockchain, and IoT, and the driving factor behind them is data. Out of the three, blockchain technology is what assembles the pieces and there is a whole ecosystem of data-driven blockchain projects emerging. The solutions in this blockchain data ecosystem create new opportunity and they lower cost. Especially the second is key as it lowers the entry barriers for new innovation, enabling more people to contribute and therefore potentially accelerating our progress as a society.

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    The Top Resources For Learning Algorithmic Trading

    Algorithmic trading is perceived as a very complex area for beginners. There’s simply way too much to learn as it covers a wide range of disciplines that require a considerable degree of mathematical and statistical maturity. Simply put, if bogged down with the wrong resources initially, it can be very demotivating to understand or learn algorithmic trading.

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    Blockchain of Things – Two Disruptive Technologies in Alliance

    Blockchain, still in its nascence, it has been more useful to every possible industry on this planet. Similarly, IoT or Internet of Things is in its initial phases, still blooming, but the stir it has created in the world it unparalleled or only comparable to blockchain. These two have become the epitomes of technology and the minute they come together, it produces an endless network of interconnected devices sharing the entire world’s data among themselves and the external environment, functioning perfectly without the intervention of humans.

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    Blockchain will Revolutionize Healthcare: The Truth or A Baseless Hype

    The diagnosis will start with us seeing how Blockchain technology and Healthcare fit together and what are the different use cases of the technology in the industry? Next, the symptoms of Blockchain will be studied and a clear diagnosis will be made in terms of the technology future. Lastly, the measures will be shared to help the businesses offering Healthcare Apps utilize the technology, rightly. Let’s start with the Medical Evaluation of Blockchain Technology.

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