Leveraging Blockchain For The Real Estate Industry – by Jeannette Lim and Melanie Lim
“Establishing A Chain Of Title: Leveraging Blockchain For The Real Estate Industry
by Jeannette Lim and Melanie Lim
(…). Uncertainty in property ownership globally may be responsible for the loss of up to US$9.3 trillion in value. (…) Land registries powered by blockchain technology may possibly bring this lost value into the mainstream economy(…).
Furthermore, (…) the application of “smart contract” technology on a blockchain platform to automatically transfer land ownership upon certain conditions being met, could substantially enhance its real estate sector. (…)Continue reading
VLB Token – ICO is closed
The smart contract of the ICO is a binding agreement that we’ve entered into with our token buyers and the ICO is continuing in accordance with the terms set in code until April 9, 2018. If the soft cap of $4 000 000 isn’t reached, we will return all the funds to our token buyers. You can find a detailed instruction here or just click on “get a refund” button.
Graphene
A New Protocol for Block Propagation Using Set Reconciliation
A. Pinar Ozisik, Gavin Andresen, George Bissias, Amir Houmansadr, Brian N. LevineContinue reading
DGX & DGD Gold tokens
Digix Gold Token – DGX is a token representing 1 gram of gold.
DGD is the DAO system governance token. System includes Digix Badges (DGB).
Digix Whitepaper describes a much interesting Proof of Asset protocol. ‘The PoA protocol utilises Ethereum and the InterPlanetaryFiles System (IPFS) to track an asset through its chain of custody’.
How to claim your DNS domain on ENS – by Nick Johnson
“How to claim your DNS domain on ENS – by Nick Johnson
[…] Forthcoming support for claiming DNS domains on the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). This will make it possible to import nearly any internet domain name into ENS, and interact with it just as you would a .eth domain. Soon, you will be able to tell people “you can pay me ether at myname.com”.
Right now, this is only deployed for one internet TLD — .xyz — on the Ethereum Ropsten test network. Support on the Ethereum mainnet, and on more internet TLDs, is coming soon. Once everything is in place, we expect to be able to support the vast majority of internet TLDs — about 96% of them.
Since this is a brand new feature, the process right now is manual and a bit involved. Claiming your ENS domain is a four step process:
- Set up DNSSEC signing for your domain.
- Add a TXT record specifying your Ethereum address to your DNS domain.
- Prove the contents of this TXT record to the DNSSEC oracle.
- Call the DNS Registrar for .xyz to claim ownership of your domain in ENS.
We’ll walk through these in order….
Inter-chain mediators – by Jeremy Epstein
A new layer of blockchain tech is emerging: inter-chain mediators
In the beginning was Bitcoin, the only blockchain we thought we’d need. Then Ethereum came along and launched us into a multi-blockchain world. Since then we’ve seen many new blockchains emerge with their various different protocols, financed by their various different tokens.
One of the the key doctrines of this era was Joel Monegro’s seminal “fat protocols” post, in which he explained that value creation in a protocol world happens in a very different way than in the Internet world. Specifically, in the Internet world, the protocols (think TCP/IP and HTTP) were conduits and not holders of value; it was the applications built on top of them that held the value. In the blockchain world, he argued, it’s the protocols that hold the value.Continue reading
Is Quantum Computing an Existential Threat to Blockchain Technology? – By Nathana Sharma
But as is usually the case when pondering what’s ahead, nothing is certain.
When considering existential threats to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, people generally focus on increased regulation. And this makes sense. In the medium term, greater regulation may stand in the way of cryptocurrencies and wider mainstream adoption. However, there might be a bigger threat further out on the horizon.
Much of blockchain’s allure arises from its security benefits. The tech allows a ledger of transactions to be distributed between a large network of computers. No single user can break into and change the ledger. This makes it both public and secure.
novo papel dos investidores profissionais com a ascensão dos ICOs – swapynetwork (47) in bitcoin
Dear investors,
I would like to start this letter by sharing with you a song of Bob Dylan, the first song writer to get Nobel Prize in literature:
This is my message to you: The times are changing.
We, the entrepreneurs, and you, the investors have lived in a symbiosis since the early days of venture capital. You need us to multiply your money. We need you to provide the much needed capital to invest in our dreams. The numbers of this game are very known to all of us.
For every 100 ideas you listen to, you choose 1 to invest on. For every 10 ideas that you invest on, 1 ends up being a success. So, for an average entrepreneur, our chances of success are 1% for getting initial capital and, for those who get capital, 10% for being a success. Therefore, our chances of being a success are 1/1000.
Nature of a Digital Coin? By Adam Davidson @ new yorker
What Is the Nature of a Digital Coin? Paris Hilton Might Know, but the S.E.C. Doesn’t
his week, the Securities and Exchange Commission made an odd, veiled threat, in the form of a short notice on its Web site, “Statement on Potentially Unlawful Promotion of Initial Coin Offerings and Other Investments by Celebrities and Others.” The commission didn’t use any names, but those in the know had little doubt: its warning was meant for Paris Hilton.Continue reading
The missing blockchain category – by Chris Huls
The future of payments. The end of all trusted intermediaries. A new world currency? The holy grail for … everything? Blockchain technology is booming and has been named as the most revolutionary technology since the Internet. The hype started in 2015, but is still continuing. Meaning the added value is difficult to commercialize, but also that the potential might reach beyond our dreams. This 3-year hype delivered us tens of usable blockchain platforms, hundreds of use cases and thousands of startups and corporates diving into the technology. Interestingly, as no real blockchain application is yet in production, except of course cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. The question is how the future will look like in which we have many sustainable blockchain applications. In my opinion we’ve done a great deal, but one major category of blockchain networks is missing.Continue reading