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Sustainable Smart Cities Part 2

Let’s talk about IoT (the Internet of Things). I am going to assume that if you are reading this you have an understanding of IoT and how connected devices work. What is really interesting is the significant role that connected devices (which forms the Internet of Things) has in enabling Smart Cities. Smart Cities use […]

Sustainable Smart Cities Part 1.

Around 1.3 million people move into cities every day. Moreover, the World Economic Forum estimates that 70% of the population will be living in cities by 2050. Therefore, the current challenges placed on municipal management are huge, namely in issues like pollution, motor traffic, housing, or access to services. For example: Consider that in the wake […]

Let’s Talk Blocks

Types of Blocks Let’s talk about blockchain blocks. There is not any maximum number of blocks because new blocks are added constantly to the chain. With Bitcoin, on average, every 10 minutes, a new block is added. Let’s now take a look at the types of blocks in a blockchain. Genesis Block The Genesis block […]

The Internet of Blockchain

The blockchain landscape is not dissimilar to the internet of the 90’s  in that it is problematic to run on different platforms or implement using different programming languages.  Just as the internet is a series of smaller physical networks, connected to a larger network through common protocols, connecting diverse blockchain networks together will create a […]

The Disruption of Revenue Models

When currency is not currency… I was working with one of my cohorts this week on generating disruptive blockchain business models. One model that was presented identified a particular customer group and when we asked the question “How will revenue be generated from this customer group” we hit a pause as the intention was for […]

A Unicorn called DAO

We had an interesting conversation in class yesterday about DAO’s. I had recently been researching DAOs for a qualification that I am writing. During my research I came to the conclusion that maybe a DAO is in fact a Unicorn… does a pure DAO even exist? I am sure that theoretically it does, but in […]

Writing About Emerging Tech

I am often asked what it is like to write for a living…. Well I have just spent 6 hours in front of the screen writing about Emerging Tech… specifically about merging Machine Learning with Blockchain. This is my life! I get up when the sun gets up, have a coffee watching the waves come […]

Bringing Ideas to Life by Creating Value

‘How to create a business model’ that will bring ideas to life. I work with a lot of entrepreneurs who quite frankly, can really blow me away with their ideas. The challenge is how to create a business model that will bring their ideas to life. The cornerstone of their idea is what value they are […]

What exactly is the double spend problem?

Why was Satoshi’s solution to the double spend problem so revolutionary… The double-spend problem exists when transacting over the Internet. The way the Internet is designed, anyone can spend the same value—issued as a digital file—multiple times, because digital information can be copied, and copies of that same digital file can be sent from one […]