Evolving from the Smart Contract Blockchain Platform to the Extensible Blockchain Object Model Platform By: Michael Holdmann Sheets and Workbooks Sheet Analogy In an attempt to understand the difference between a Smart Contract Blockchain Platform and an Extensible Blockchain Object Model Platform we have chosen an analogy, which we believe is widely understood at a […]
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Amazon, eBay, NASDAQ on a Blockchain?
Making of Decentralized, Distributed, Open Multi-Tenant, Multi-sided Market Enablement Platform By: David Beberman, CTO In an article posted by Tren Griffin on his blog 25iq, “A Dozen Things I’ve Learned about Multi-sided Markets (Platforms)”[1], he defines a multi-sided market as a platform where multiple participants interact directly with each other. He provides examples such as […]
DataGrid Blockchain vs. Libra
DataGrid Blockchain vs. Libra By: David Beberman, CTO Libra Facebook just announced Libra and released both technical and business information regarding it. The technical side seems to consist of a leader-based, non-sharded, BFT consensus style, limited distributed ledger; coupled with a new language and VM with new built-in data types, and a “module” concept. The ledger […]
Facebook’s Libra Prompts Important Discussion in Crypto
Money has moved over the years from cash to credit card to digital currency beginning with the Nixon Administration removing the US Dollar from the Gold Standard in the 1970s, and allow global currencies to free float against one another, but the emergence of Bitcoin gained real traction when the housing market crashed in 2008. […]
CNBC Can’t Help Continually Bashing Bitcoin
Similar to the fake news liberal media puts out on The President of the United States, CNBC realizes it needs to bash Bitcoin and digital currencies or they will continue to lose the audience at an alarming rate. The current staff including Joe Kernan, Becky Quick, Jim Cramer and others pretend each day that they […]
Crypto Exchanges Overwhelmed by New Issues
The responsibility shifted during the crypto winter whereas regulators slid the vetting process for new coins to the exchanges themselves, this piled high the responsibility they were already dealing with in the fast-changing world of cryptocurrency trading. Think about the task as head of one of the 200 crypto exchanges. You need to fund the […]
IEO Evolution Rides Crypto Spring into Summer
If you look at a chronology of Initial Exchange Offerings (IEO), they were the bastard child of a spastic Initial Coin Offering (ICO) cycle which rode the coattails of the cryptocurrency explosion of 2017. In 2017 Bitcoin traded from $1000 to $20,000, in 2018 Bitcoin traded down from $16,000 to $3000 commonly referred to as […]
Buffett and Munger from another Planet
The gorge between the investment world seems cavernous to me on the eve of the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) pilgrimage so many millionaires make each year, and god bless them as they bask in the riches for the risks they took 10 or 20 years ago. You always hear the catcall of if you had invested […]
Public Blockchains have Major Flaws But it Doesnt Matter yet
Without pretending to know what goes on in the mind of Vitalik Buterin the Co-founder of Etherium who at age 25 is doing a replay of what Thomas Edison did at Menlo Park in 1876. Edison was disrupting electric power generation at 29 just as Buterin is disrupting the way we keep track of our […]
Portfolio Managers Cannot Keep Pace without Bitcoin in the Mix
If you are a money manager, your waking nightmare is a relplay of Q4 2017 and Q1 2018 when Bitcoin exploded into the year end mark for assets. If you were not long Bitcoin or an Alt-Coin you were at risk of losing investor capital as the media cycle rage for Bitcoin overwhelmed any investment […]
IEO Replaces ICO as Exchanges Vett Tokenization Surge
The ICO was a 2017 phenomena, and it pissed off everyone from regulators to investors, so the logical evolution of this asset class (crypto investments) falls to the Exchanges who vett candidates and charge a big piece to allow them to introduce the coin tokenomics to exchange membership. Most conclude that the exchanges are really […]
Bitcoin Winter Slides into Rearview Mirror
2017 was the year of the ICO, or Initial Coin offering where tokenization really took hold. Investors chased profits as the price of Bitcoin made the media news cycle topping $20,000 per coin. The inevitable happened, and a “Crypto Winter” insued shaking out most retail investors who bought coins above $16,000 and sold them under […]
Another Cryptocurrency Milestone In Bitcoin Only Palazzo Sale
Bitcoin is now knocking on the real estate’s door. This is as a result of a Maltese Mansion that is up on sale. Interestingly though, this is a Bitcoin only Palazzo sale. According to CryptoDaily, the Mansion grosses for USD$3.52 million. The amount is equivalent to about 550 bitcoins. Prominent technology personalities were on the […]
Bitcoin has disrupted Moore’s Law and Electricity is 500% Undervalued
Digital Currency Remains the Most Important Asset of 2018 Many listed (NYSE) and (NASDAQ) regulated stocks are up in 2018 as analysts, commentators, and market watchers sorted through what sectors have potential for 2018 in hopes of individual sectors turning, or stock specific/industry specific names Nvidia (Nasdaq:NVDA) hanging on to the graphics processing unit (GPU) […]
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