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WHICH BLOCKCHAINS WILL SURVIVE THE "WEB 3.0" PROTOCOL WARS?

6/25/2018

Post By Anthony Broderick on June 25, 2018

Here at WEB3-IOT our aim is to track the inevitable convergence between the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) such as blockchain. One of the most heated debates in the DLT space right now is - which blockchain will form the infrastructure for the coming wave of Decentralised Applications (Dapps) that will run on Web 3.0? Anthony Broderick takes a deep dive into how Bitcoin and Ethereum' blockchain platforms stack up against EOS.

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CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: DON'T GET SEDUCED BY CRYPTO FEVER

6/14/2018

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Post By Simon Montford on June 14, 2018

Before I begin, it is vital that I make one thing very clear. By writing this piece, it is not my intention to judge or undermine event organisers. They must be congratulated for all their hard work, and it’s important to remember that conferences are a platform for innovation. They facilitate connections, inspire new thinking, and enable innovators to promote themselves and obtain much-needed visibility as a result of being given a forum to speak and exhibit. It's always a great pleasure to cover our favourite conferences, and include them in our 2018 Conference Directory. We consider it as our duty to support them, so keep up the good work!

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"PANORAMA: WHO WANTS TO BE A BITCOIN MILLIONAIRE?"

2/13/2018

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Post By Simon Montford on January 13, 2018

Last night's BBC Panorama: "Who Wants to Be a Bitcoin Millionaire?" was uncomfortable to watch because a lot of clueless, irrational, and ignorant people are being seduced by greed. Unfortunately many will end up losing their money when the cypto bubble bursts. It's very simple, don't invest in anything you don't fully understand!

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AFTER MONEY: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

12/11/2017

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Post By Simon Montford on December 11, 2017

As technology becomes ever more fundamental to citizens, societies and economies, Simon Montford, the founder of WEB3//IOT visited the After Money money symposium looking at issues from identity and privacy to decentralisation, autonomy and democracy itself. I recently attended a two-day event called After Money, which heralded the end of an 18-month research project of the same name, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council in collaboration with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the New Economics Foundation. It took place on the 20th and 21st of November at the City Arts Centre in Edinburgh and was organised by The Centre for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

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ICOs are funding the creation of a new decentralised web (PART III)

9/21/2017

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Post By Simon Montford on Sept 21, 2017

Following on from part 1 and part 2 of this series, what I find most curious about the current ICO mania is that the majority of people filling their boots with crypto-plunder clearly understand the dangers, but do it anyway. Let's take EOS's ICO for example, if you look at the company's Terms of Use (TOU) you will see that the founders have sensibly made provisions to indemnify themselves against future liability.

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ICOs are funding the creation of a new decentralised web (Part II)

9/20/2017

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Post By Simon Montford on Sept 20, 2017

As mentioned in Part I of this series, unlike bitcoin, ether is more than just a store of value. It has been described as "crypto-law" and "programmable money" because when it is turned into gas it can be used to perform the following actions: Allocate resources, facilitate transactions between accounts using smart contracts, compensate participant nodes for computations performed on the network, and act as an internal transaction pricing mechanism. These powerful functionalities have made an entirely new kind of self-regulating governance possible in the form of distributed autonomous organisations (DAOs).

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WHICH BLOCKCHAINS WILL SURVIVE THE "WEB 3.0" PROTOCOL WARS?

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: DON'T GET SEDUCED BY CRYPTO FEVER

"PANORAMA: WHO WANTS TO BE A BITCOIN MILLIONAIRE?"

AFTER MONEY: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

ICOs are funding the creation of a new decentralised web (PART III)

ICOs are funding the creation of a new decentralised web (Part II)

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WHICH BLOCKCHAINS WILL SURVIVE THE "WEB 3.0" PROTOCOL WARS?

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: DON'T GET SEDUCED BY CRYPTO FEVER

"PANORAMA: WHO WANTS TO BE A BITCOIN MILLIONAIRE?"

AFTER MONEY: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

ICOs are funding the creation of a new decentralised web (PART III)

ICOs are funding the creation of a new decentralised web (Part II)

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