tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hubs/1281/user/bgetting/atom 2019-04-19T16:31:34-04:00 TagTeam social RSS aggregrator tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2479661 2019-04-19T16:30:52-04:00 2019-04-19T16:31:34-04:00

<p>Researchers discuss smart cities and security issues that arise from blockchain application therein.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2479107 2019-04-13T00:35:24-04:00 2019-04-13T00:35:24-04:00

<p>Magic Leap, an AR headset company, posts several job offerings that indicate an interest in storing user data on a blockchain.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2478892 2019-04-11T00:29:55-04:00 2019-04-11T00:29:55-04:00

<p>Stack Overflow developers survey from 2019 shows that most developers don't use blockchain. Older developers feel that it is a waste or resources, and younger users are more optimistic that it will be used more widely in the future. Read for the full results.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2478805 2019-04-10T02:08:54-04:00 2019-04-10T02:08:54-04:00

<p>A brief article on why Switzerland is home to so many crypocurrency and blockchain companies</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2478804 2019-04-10T01:13:00-04:00 2019-04-10T01:13:00-04:00

<p>Copyright Clearance Center Beyond the Book podcast interview with Stephen P. Williams, author of Blockchain is the Next Everything.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2478698 2019-04-09T01:55:38-04:00 2019-04-09T01:55:38-04:00

<p>Forbes write up of the SXSW "Around the (Global)- Block Blockchain For impact" session including links to interviews with the panelists.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2472963 2019-01-31T14:54:44-05:00 2019-04-06T01:16:52-04:00

<p>LibChain is a blockchain specifically designed to allow for increased freedom for lending in libraries, between multiple insitutions and users directly. Created by German graduate students, it was presented at LIBER 2017, where it was highly rated.  Can be also found on Github.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2478308 2019-04-03T15:51:22-04:00 2019-04-03T15:51:22-04:00

<p>A short piece hosted by IBM by an Econ professor about corporate blockchains which uses a real world implementation of a grade blockchain as an example of the challenges</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2478194 2019-04-02T15:37:38-04:00 2019-04-02T15:37:38-04:00

<p><em>Ledger</em><span> is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, as well as any relevant intersections with mathematics, computer science, engineering, law, and economics.</span><em>  </em><span>It is published online by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.</span></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2475605 2019-03-05T15:06:15-05:00 2019-03-05T15:06:15-05:00

<p>More detail around how a series of MVPDs led by Comcast, Charter and other cable companies are looking to use blockchain technology to improve data sharing and allow addresable ads, etc.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2474128 2019-02-14T14:21:16-05:00 2019-02-14T14:21:16-05:00

<p>A short article describing what a cryptocurrency wallet is and explaining some features</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2473386 2019-02-06T10:40:02-05:00 2019-02-07T09:07:18-05:00

<p>The circumvention of trust is a great promise, but it’s just not true. Yes, bitcoin eliminates certain trusted intermediaries that are inherent in other payment systems like credit cards. But you still have to trust bitcoin—and everything about it.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2473269 2019-02-04T20:41:34-05:00 2019-02-07T10:14:41-05:00

<p>Berkeley researcher Nicholas Weaver discusses a view of blockchain that deflates the hype.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2472690 2019-01-27T23:44:04-05:00 2019-01-27T23:44:04-05:00

<p>Transactions recorded in a permissionless public blockchain (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum) have a quality known as Probabilistic Transcation Finality. Included herein is a brief explanation of that term.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2472652 2019-01-27T01:10:08-05:00 2019-01-27T01:14:47-05:00

<p>A description of sidechains in non-technical terms. Sidchains offer scalability solutions for services not on the main chain.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471873 2019-01-15T15:58:22-05:00 2019-01-15T15:58:22-05:00

<p>An article from a local newspaper in Washington showing how the rural region's access to cheap hydroelectric power drove tech development and one municipality's plan to keep it going. An example of an unintended local consequence of the recent cryptocurrency bubble.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471800 2019-01-14T15:10:30-05:00 2019-01-14T15:10:30-05:00

<p>Merkle or has tree is the computer science concept used in architecture of commercial blockchain applications. This is the wikipedia article on the subject.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471474 2019-01-09T00:24:50-05:00 2019-01-09T00:24:50-05:00

<p>An Ars Technica article about a recent hack of the cryptocurrency ethereum through a blockchain fork. Many of the technologies on this tag team are built on ethereum.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471262 2019-01-04T15:51:35-05:00 2019-01-04T15:51:35-05:00

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2471217 2019-01-03T17:35:54-05:00 2019-01-03T17:35:54-05:00

<p>An advertising data service based on blockchain is launched by Comcast with Viacom, Charter and other players in the cable TV space meant to measure digital viewership.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2470895 2018-12-26T16:00:14-05:00 2018-12-26T16:00:14-05:00

<p>Blockchain alternative for distriuted data storage.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/2470894 2018-12-26T15:49:26-05:00 2018-12-26T15:49:26-05:00