Bitcoin and Blockchain Open New Management Frontiers
Bitcoin, the blockchain, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and other Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies are disrupting everything around us. In particular, they are disrupting the way we manage people and businesses. Furthermore, they are changing management approaches and fostering new business process creation. Industrial....
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The Linux Foundation has named Brian Behlendorf executive director of the Hyperledger Project, a blockchain initiative to create an open distributed ledger platform for the foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to professional, open source management. Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server. He is also a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He served on the Mozilla Foundation board since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding chief technology officer of both CollabNet and the World Economic Forum. Most....
UBS has shown particular interest in fintech developments, creating an innovations lab to explore potential applications of bitcoin and the blockchain technology. Just recently, the company announced the launch of the Future of Finance Challenge, which is a competition open to fintech entrepreneurs and bitcoin startups. UBS is a Swiss global financial services company based in Zurich. It provides investment banking, asset management and wealth management services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide and operates in more than 50 countries with about 60,000 employees....
Blockchain technology, the underlying infrastructure enabling crypto transactions is constantly evolving. Form being a simple ledger recording all transactions, it has grown to create alternatives to the traditional financial industry. The latest developments in blockchain space currently revolve around NFTs – Non-Fungible Tokens and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). While these two are different applications of DLT […]
Since launching its Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) last November, Microsoft has worked with partners to understand core industry scenarios, and to develop the technologies to bring blockchain to enterprises, governments, and individuals. Project Bletchley is Microsoft’s vision for an open, modular blockchain powered by Azure, according to Marley Gray, director of blockchain business development and strategy at Microsoft, in an Azure blog. That vision, articulated in a white paper on Github, includes new elements the company believes to be key to enterprise blockchain architecture.....
“If Ebay and Bitorrent had a baby, the combination would spawn Open Bazaar” Review of Open Bazaar. What is Open Bazaar? Open Bazaar is a decentralized marketplace. Why Should I Care? A decentralized marketplace means that you can now freely trade with anyone in the world without regulations and governments slowing down business. Let’s face it, most online shopping experiences are horrendous. OpenBazaar gives you the freedom to buy what you want from whom you want. For Merchants, OpenBazaar means less fees and more money for consumers and merchants. Finally… welcome to a world of free....