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Unbreakable: How Quantum Technology Is Helping Secure The Most Critical Data

Sharon Cleary
August 23, 2019
In “Avengers: Endgame,” the titular superheroes need to find a way to go back in time to a moment before half of the universe was wiped out with a snap. Their solution? Travel through the quantum realm, where subatomic particles bounce around like oil in a lava lamp.
While the time travel aspect is pure superhero-movie hokum, the filmmakers tapped into a branch of scientific research that has enormous potential for protecting blockchain: quantum mechanics.
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Trading Neighbors: A New Study Will Look At Blockchain’s Potential To Power Local Energy Markets

P D Olson
November 07, 2018
Imagine: On a hot, sunny day, a popular neighborhood coffee shop is teeming with people, its air conditioner blasting to keep up. Just next door, an empty home with solar panels on the roof is drawing power from the sun without using it, as the owners have decamped on a two-week beach vacation.
Today’s energy infrastructure isolates the buildings from each other. But in the future, they could be doing business automatically, minute-by-minute, thanks to a technology called blockchain.
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Industrial Ledgers: How Blockchain Could Accelerate Digital Transformation

February 06, 2018
If you’ve read a business, financial, or computing magazine, or website, in the past 12 months there’s a high chance that their front pages, and homepages have been dominated by stories about bitcoin and blockchain.
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Powered By Blockchain: Move Over Bitcoin, Here Comes Digital Energy

Tomas Kellner
January 25, 2018
The fever and frenzy gripping the bitcoin market may ultimately curtail the digital currency’s appeal. But the smart money is already betting on blockchain, the technology that allowed bitcoin to take off in the first place.
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Four Reasons To Question The Hype Around Blockchain

Aengus Collins World Economic Forum
July 21, 2017
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Could Blockchain Technology Help The World's Poorest?

Nir Kshetri University Of North Carolina Greensboro
July 11, 2017

No need for a bank: Just a smartphone and a blockchain.  Here are four real examples, compiled by Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at The University of North Carolina-Greensboro, that show how blockchain could help boost the world's most economically disadvantaged.



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The Biggest Tech To Hit Wall Street Since The Internet is Not Yet Ready For Prime Time

Kate Moloney Mit Cisr
Mary Lacity University Of Missouri St Louis Mit Cisr
June 07, 2017
It’s not an overstatement to say that blockchain is one of the most evangelized technologies out there today. Everywhere you look new companies are promising that blockchain will be a game changer for everything from banking to energy to walking.
But is the technology ready for enterprise deployment?
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Beyond Bitcoin: Digital Currency Among Many Industrial Applications For Blockchain

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 22, 2017
Ben Beckmann works as the lead scientist in the complex systems engineering lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. In 2012, he made a seemingly inconsequential wager: He bet one of his colleagues that the electronic currency bitcoin would fail.
Bitcoins started trading for pennies after the currency launched in 2009. Today, you can buy one bitcoin for $2,200. Beckmann lost the bet and took his colleague for a nice meal. “If we had taken the $100 we spent on dinner and invested it in bitcoins at the start, we would be millionaires,” Beckmann laughs.
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5 Infographics That Explain One Year Of Blockchain News

Jess Mccuan
May 17, 2017

There's a lot happening in the world of blockchain, the sometimes hard-to-grasp disruptive technology. Jess McCuan, content creator-in-chief with Quid, whose software can read millions of news articles for collective intelligence, uses data-focused visuals to help others easily digest blockchain's biggest news in the last year.


 

 
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Vive La Révolution Digitale: A Parisian Suburb Started Testing A Renewable Energy Blockchain

March 27, 2017
The Jean Jaurès elementary school in the town of Rueil-Malmaison outside of Paris is full of French charm. Light streams into a room on the second floor through colored glass casting playful reflections on the floor. Like all schools, the place is an incubator for young brains but also for a piece of cutting-edge technology: the world’s first “green” blockchain.
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