Will Britain Lead the 4th Industrial Revolution? October 2, 2018 With the USA in isolationist mode, if not paralysis, who will lead the west, post-Brexit and as we enter the full flood of what the World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab dubbed The Fourth Industrial Revolution: “The possibilities of billions of people connected by mobile devices, with unprecedented processing power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge, [...]
The times, they are a-changin’: Innovation is happening faster than ever before, especially in the world of blockchain October 2, 2018 Innovation is happening faster than ever before, especially in the world of blockchain. So too with ICO NEWS, which today becomes the TOKEN INTELLIGENCE column, reflecting the changing and broadening out of what started out as just ICOs. Now we have the rise of ‘Tokenised Securities Offerings’, along with TGEs (Token Generation Events – not [...]
Blockchain and the Future of Humanity: Economy. Environment. Ethics October 2, 2018 Crypto Challenge Forum is the world’s major industry event. It will take place on 28-30 October 2018 at the iconic Central Hall Westminster, London, connecting global thought leaders, policy makers, investors and startups from across the world for a three-day top content event. It will be attended by industry leaders, think tanks, institutional and private [...]
Why The Next Step is Crucial September 25, 2018 The last 18 months of ICOs, and now Token Offerings, is often characterised as the ‘The Wild West’. So reminiscent of the early day of Crowdfunding, which so nearly got ‘regulated away’. How can it be fixed? We are clearly past this turning point with the world of Token Crowdfunding. Not least because so many [...]
Crypto and cybercrime – a marriage made in heaven? September 18, 2018 For years, cybercriminals have been experimenting with new ways to steal and extort money from victims. More recent trends involve the boom in cryptocurrency. Here, Tyler Moffitt, Senior Threat Research Analyst at Webroot, explores the relationship between cybercrime and cryptocurrency. Basic ransomware attacks, where a cybercriminal demands payment in exchange for something they’ve taken from [...]
Crypto and cybercrime – a marriage made in heaven? September 18, 2018 For years, cybercriminals have been experimenting with new ways to steal and extort money from victims. More recent trends involve the boom in cryptocurrency. Here, Tyler Moffitt, Senior Threat Research Analyst at Webroot, explores the relationship between cybercrime and cryptocurrency. Basic ransomware attacks, where a cybercriminal demands payment in exchange for something they’ve taken from [...]
Proof-of-Truth: A New Approach to Communicating and Verifying Knowledge September 11, 2018 The notion of truth has always been a popular target of debate. What exactly constitutes truth? In attempt to answer this question, multiple theories of truth have emerged, such as theories of correspondence and coherence. Correspondence theory, pragmatic in its relation of judgement to reality, in some sense, falls victim to this simple idea that [...]
Audit Straight to (Blockchain) Video September 11, 2018 Audit is about to change – so is regulation. While regulators around the globe grapple with Blockchain technology and its implications, including tokenisation of securities, fractionalisation of assets and ICOs, others – including at least one of the co-inventors of the technology – are working on a quiet revolution they believe is destined to transform [...]
Up the blockchain beanstalk in search of a golden goose August 31, 2018 Remember the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, when the hero traded his very last asset – the valuable family cow – for a handful of magic beans, and by some miracle of climbing the resulting beanstalk he ended up living happily ever after, thanks to proceeds from a bag of gold, a golden goose, [...]
Brains, Chains and Autobots August 28, 2018 They’re usually talked of as completely disparate fields; but ‘Brains and Chains’, or Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies, have already started to converge – despite claims they’re philosophically incompatible. So where’s the join? Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the like have invested billions in AI over the years. Billions more are being poured into Blockchain ventures [...]