Who is Blockchain’s Person of the Year?
Blockchain went mainstream this year with decision makers. From household brands to one person start-ups, regulators, intellectuals, dreamers, pragmatics, the young and old, all have been considering the potential of this new technology, but who had the most influence? Who created or destroyed? Who advanced this space and who regressed it? We present the list below for your consideration and vote on who you think, for better or worse, deserves the honor or misfortune of being named Blockchain’s Person of the Year. Vitalik Buterin. The 22-year-old child prodigy, who was placed in a class....
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Since Nakamoto, no one has advanced this space more than Vitalik Buterin, the 22-year-old child-prodigy who in 2013 began thinking of extending blockchain’s capabilities beyond just money, launched his vision in 2015 and saw it explode this year with ETH increasing by more than 700%. More than just a new currency, Vitalik has created a new technology – an ethereum virtual machine that executes smart contracts. In the process, he has transformed money into truly digital code which anyone with some knowledge can program and order around. As such, ethereum is an upgrade of bitcoin itself,....
The little-known father of bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto - has been nominated for the 2013 Guardian Person of the Year award. The recognition comes after bitcoin has had a wildly successful year, with the value increasing from 2 digits to 4 digits. Even though it's not clear who or whom Satoshi Nakamoto is, exactly, it's an attempt to recognize the brilliant mind/s behind the digital currency that may just change how we buy and sell goods. Nakamoto is joined by entities such as Elon Musk of SpaceX, Pope Francis, and Kanye West. The general public is able to vote for who they think should be....
While the bitcoin community has grown over the past year to include hundreds of new global merchants, there remains a strong market for person-to-person transactions as evidenced by existing marketplaces like LocalBitcoins and Brawker. Still, interactions on such platforms remain difficult according to Gliph. The self-described secure messaging and bitcoin payments startup has released a marketplace feature in its app with the aim of enhancing person-to-person commerce with bitcoin on smartphones. Gliph CEO Rob Banagale explained that by launching Gliph Marketplace, his company is trying....
Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin released their full-screen trading interface today. According to the bitcoin exchange, the interface was designed for futures as well as the new addition of person. -to-person lending. The full-screen view is reminiscent of what someone is watching candles on BitcoinWisdom might be accustomed to, but allows for direct trades on OKCoin. To the non-trader, the charts, graphs and order books might look a bit overcrowded as the bitcoin exchange fits all market information into their interface for a single glance looks. But to the trader who's been in the game....
One of blockchain’s greatest challenges that’s yet to be solved is the lack of confidentiality and privacy of data. It’s a challenge that needs to be addressed though, because until a solution is found then blockchain will always be out of the question for enterprises that put a premium on data privacy above all of […]