How Monegraph Uses the Block Chain to Verify Digital Assets
Monegraph, a collaborative project between a New York University professor and a technologist offers a radical new way for artists to secure digital property - by logging it in the namecoin block chain. To use the service, users sign in to Monegraph via Twitter and choose a URL location of a digital asset, such as artwork. Paying a small network fee via the namecoin QT client results in the Twitter account and URL being placed on the block chain. Kevin McCoy is the NYU professor that worked with Anil Dash to create Monegraph. An artist himself, McCoy said he had considered building....
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With more and more things becoming digitalized, intellectual property rights are straggling behind. Monegraph is one way users can stay current in this digital age, borrowing the Namecoin blockchain for the purpose of storing URLs. Monegraph, short for monetized graphics, allows you to confirm that digital images that are yours are actually indeed yours. It takes advantage of the blockchain which is normal for verifying currency, and adapts it to verify ownership of images. It is extremely easy and cheap to get started, one must first own a twitter and a Namecoin client. Once signed into....
Holberton School, a software engineering school in San Francisco, claims to be the first school to deliver is academic certificates secured and accessible via the block chain. The school has partnered with Bitproof.io, which notarizes documents in the block chain. This goal is to help employers verify academic credentials quickly. Verifying document authenticity easily and economically is one of many uses the block chain brings to business, industry and academia. Block Chain Offers A Secure Environment. Holberton School will issue digital certificates in a secure environment. Accessing the....
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Pryor Cashman, which is a full-service law firm, has announced the launch of a new digital art and media platform "Monegraph." What makes this platform an interesting subject for digital currency world is the fact that it claims to be utilizing the technology which is similar to the blockchain technology. Blockchain has evoked lots of discussions as it is widely being seen as the answer to an over-burdened traditional financial infrastructure. Monegraph has been described as a web-based platform that facilitates transfers of digital art, such as professional and amateur photography, and....
A new company, BlockSign, lets customers digitally sign legally binding contracts and preserve them in the public domain. Running on the block chain, the decentralised public ledger that records transactions on the bitcoin network, the BlockSign platform provides a way to sign, timestamp and later verify documents on the web. How BlockSign works. From a user perspective, BlockSign works as a web application. A PDF signed with the program will indicate where a signature is to be placed, and the user places a stamp in a stylized font there. Into this signature is encoded an email address and....