From Bench to Bedside: Enabling Reproducible Commercial Science via Blockchain
The blockchain is enabling us to rethink the basic infrastructure of how certain assets can be tokenized, tracked and accounted for across multiple parties. One particular platform that could benefit from better asset tracking is the enterprise of scientific research. My goal here is to outline an approach to enhance the reproducibility of scientific....
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Commercial Bank, a private Qatari bank has revealed the successful completion of an initial blockchain pilot enabling international funds transfers with a number of banks in the region and beyond. The offering could have a significant impact on outward remittances in a country that houses a large population of working immigrants from a number of regional nations. Doha-based Commercial Bank, which lays claim to being Qatar’s first private bank, has announced the completion of a blockchain pilot in partnership from its regional alliance. Hosted on a cloud-based blockchain, the platform sees....
For decades, the global scientific community has struggled to gain traction as most innovators had to make their way through bureaucracy for their innovations to come to light. Web2 and its social platform offered a fresh start to these innovators as they had a platform to directly reach an audience larger than ever before. However, there is still a major hurdle to conquer: getting their inventions and innovations funded for further development. Of course, fundraiser websites such as KickStarter, Patreon, and Crowd.Science for scientists and inventors offer them a means to raise funds.....
If you still can't figure out what the heck a bitcoin is, this simple explanation for a five-year-old may help you ... We're sitting on a park bench. It's a great day. I have one apple with me, I give it to you. You now have one apple and I have zero. That was simple, right? Let's look closely at what happened: My apple was physically put into your hand. You know it happened. I was there, you were there - you touched it. We didn't need a third person there to help us make the transfer. We didn't need to pull in Uncle Tommy (who's a famous judge) to sit with us on the bench and confirm that....
The Science DAO, a decentralized fundraising platform that offers pre-IPO investment options in breakthrough technologies and projects, debuted on May 5, 2022. The objective of the Science DAO is to use Web3 to help fund disruptive and game-changing discoveries and make cutting-edge technology more accessible to the general public than ever before! Being a decentralized […]
Privacy should be a key talking point from the beginning of CBDC development. Robert Bench, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s director of applied research, thinks privacy should be a focus during the creation of digital money, not an afterthought. “Privacy is a question that we have learned is critical from a technical perspective,” Bench said during a Chamber of Digital Commerce panel on Friday: “One of our learnings is that the questions of privacy and identity must be considered at the earliest stage of the architecture. Making privacy or identity an ad hoc process is suboptimal from....