Mindfully Curated
One of the most popular topics in the digital consensus space (a new term for cryptocurrency 2.0 that I’m beta-testing) is the concept of decentralized autonomous entities. There are now a number of groups rapidly getting involved in the space, includi…
Molecular diagnostic tests, such as Veracyte’s Afirma Test, are the solution to the problem of costly unnecessary surgeries.
Over the past two weeks our primary focus has been getting all of the clients updated to PoC5 compatibility, and it definitely has been a long road. Among the changes to the VM include: The new init/code mechanism: basically, when you create a contr…
Adidas Smart Shirt | Adidas’ (ADS) Textronics group has created fabrics for the first commercially available products with promising applications in sports
The idea of releasing a new currency as a mechanism for funding protocol development is perhaps one of the most interesting economic innovations to come out of the cryptocurrency space. In the past twenty years, we have seen a growing centralization in…
SpaceX and Skybox | As the barriers to entry diminish, companies like SpaceX and Skybox continue to innovate the industrial world. Cheap Space Exploration.
Social media users are running out. A primary driver of the past decade’s growth is diminishing. Social Media companies will have to widen their scope.
Autonomous cars will save lives, prevent injuries, and stimulate the country by adding $50 billion annually back to the economy. (Tesla, Google, Volvo, GM)
Tesla is going to need a Gigafactory to meet growing EV demand for lithium-ion batteries. | ARK Research, Industrial Innovation
MIT researchers have developed CRISPR to improve lives and repair genetic mutations. They have used the technique to reverse a disease in a living organism.
Ether (ETH), the cryptofuel that powers distributed applications on the Ethereum platform, will be issued at a constant annual linear rate via the block mining process. This rate is 0.3 times the total amount of ETH that will be purchased in the pre-sa…
The content of this tutorial is intended to apply to PoC5. Most of the instructions given below will not work in the older PoC4 implementations of AlethZero (C++) and Ethereal (Go) Over the last few weeks, we have made a large number of changes to the…
The pharmaceutical industry not sustainable. In-silico drug R&D uses algorithmic science and cloud computing to find potential drugs more efficiently.
Car sharing services like Zipcar utilize vehicles more efficiently. Increased adoption of car sharing services would have an impact on new US auto sales.
One of the main applications of Ethereum that people have been interested in is financial contracts and derivatives. Although financial derivatives have acquired a reputation as a highly risky and destabilizing device with the sole function of enrichin…
In the past two weeks our lead C++ developer, Gavin Wood, and myself have been spending a lot of time meeting the local Ethereum community in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. We were very excited to see such a large amount of interest in our project, …
There are a lot of interesting changes to the Ethereum protocol that are in the works, which will hopefully improve the power of the system, add further features such as light-client friendliness and a higher degree of extensibility, and make Ethereum …
In the last installment of this series, we talked about what “smart contracts” (or, perhaps more accurately, “self-enforcing contracts”) are, and discussed in detail the two main mechanisms through which these contracts can have “force”: smart property…
Many of the concepts that we promote over in Ethereum land may seem incredibly futuristic, and perhaps even frightening, at times. We talk about so-called “smart contracts” that execute themselves without any need, or any opportunity, for human interve…
Scalability is now at the forefront of the technical discussion in the cryptocurrency scene. The Bitcoin blockchain is currently over 12 GB in size, requiring a period of several days for a new bitcoind node to fully synchronize, the UTXO set that must…