Blockchain technology news

Today, people are likely to choose mobile apps and wallet, instead of using similar software solutions on their PC desktop. It is the same situation with Bitcoin mobile apps and online wallets.

Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities on innovation, and an expert in Blockchain technology will open the upcoming 2016 Greenwich CIO Executive Leadership Summit, organized by HMG Strategy.

The first Blockchain-based system for smart guns, Blocksafe, announce a new project of building up an alternative solution managing access to weapons. Blocksafe launched a new crypto token crowdsale, called “Trigger” (TRIG).

Chronicled launches an Ethereum Blockchain-based open registry project for Internet of Things (IoT).

Does the use of Blockchains grant the ability to heighten security, improve customer engagement and provide automated insurance services? If so, then the benefits seem incontrovertible.

A report that describes the potentially quite dangerous altcoin DDosCoin, has recently been published. This coins uses a principle similar to Proof-of-Work – “proof-of-DDoD” for coin mining, so miners must actually participate in DDoS-attacks on a specific webserver target.

Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is an age old vice, that seems to defy traditional methods of curbing it due to several factors involved. Using the Blockchain to stop the creation of fake drugs is clearly not an easy process, but it is achievable.

The fundamental feature of the Bitcoin blockchain is “Proof of Work”, however there exist within the ecosystem several creations which have been described as Blockchains. Are these creations really what they are called? Is it possible that 90% of Blockchain projects utilise a fake “Blockchain”?

Today the Blockchain technology in not just a distributed ledger Bitcoin transactions are based on, but a cutting-edge technology that becomes widely used by ambitious startups, giant software companies, major world banks and even governments. Just as decades ago the Internet came to change our ordinary lifestyles, the Blockchain may change the future.