Category: Blockchain

For the more imaginative, concepts such as mistrust in government, document tampering and questionable provenance might conjure up scenes from The Ipcress Files, JFK or tales of cold war espionage and conspiracy.  However, amidst the saturation of our information channels with fake news and a growing trend towards truth by …

Against the backdrop of hype, promise and innovation, real-world adoption of blockchain technology has been markedly slow.  While many businesses and organisations have shown a willingness to learn more about distributed ledger technology (DLT), the overwhelming array of available options (many of which appear to offer the same thing), has …

Crypto news website CryptoSlate have recently published an article ‘Introduction to Bytom (BTM) – A Digital Asset Layer Protocol’.  Bytom’s mission statement, outlined in their whitepaper, is “to bridge the atomic world and the byte world, to build a decentralized network where various byte assets and atomic …

An interesting little nugget has recently appeared on the Coindesk blog, entitled ‘In 10 Years We Won’t Have Blockchains’.  Its author, and Vice President for blockchain at Talla.com, Will Murphy, posits that the term ‘blockchain’ will no longer be meaningful in the future.  He begins by summarising the …

Last month, Jean Lozano of Cloud DAM vendor, MediaValet wrote an article on their blog, Cryptomedia: Blockchain in the Digital Asset Management Space.  The piece is quite interesting since it isn’t about the currently deflating tradable Crypto-as-a-security (or perhaps ‘CraaS’?) bubble and neither does it write the whole thing …

The CoinTelegraph has recently published an article outlining Sony’s filing of a patent to integrate the blockchain as part of its educational platform. The media giant announced back in August that it would be built upon IBM’s Blockchain, delivered by the IBM Cloud and powered by Hyperledger. As a side …

I have written a feature article for Digital Asset News entitled Blockchains Are The Transactional Internet – Not The Internet of Money which critically evaluates the description ‘Internet of Money’ and proposes an alternative term which I contend is both more accurate and has greater potential for the development and …

Héctor Ugarte has written a paper, with the title: A more pragmatic Web 3.0: Linked Blockchain Data which brings together a number of different themes which we have explored on Digital Asset News and DAM News recently.  As such, this might be of interest to those who are considering how …

In the second part of my article on the role of blockchains and Content Digital Asset Management, I have examined some non-fintech oriented uses of blockchains (of which there are quite a lot more than many people might realise).  In addition, I analyse the risks of using blockchain technologies …

I have written the first of a two-part article on the features section of Digital Asset News, Blockchains: Catalysts For Innovation In Content Digital Asset Management.  The piece explains what blockchains are (including their historical context) and how they are more like databases than many might realise.  The wider …