What is an Initial Coin Offering?

In the last post in Digital Distributed Asset I have hinted at the need to define as precisely as possible what an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is. I decided not to wait any other post and here it goes today. Initial Coin Offerings appeared recently in the traditional Venture Capital space as new way of funding new […]

The Basic Attention Token (BAT) explanation

Having resolved my technical issues as of late, which triggered some anxiety from my part as to the activity of blogging on a daily basis, I am back today here for the Digital Distributed Asset readers. But I am continuing on a short post schedule. This time with an interesting video from Boxmining, that featured […]

Scaling Bitcoin Milan 2016 and the fungibility issue with Bitcoin

Fungibility – the functionality of an asset to be interchangeable with itself – is an issue with Bitcoin. Bitcoins and crytpocurrencies are not completely fungible. This is important for an asset to perform well in payments and in reaching quick agreement over settlement of a transaction. If cryptocurrencies will succeed as an important alternative payment […]

Introducing Status: the Mobile Ethereum Client

Epicenter collection of YouTube videos featuring some important Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum and cryptocurrencies protagonists is impressive. The channel normally features 1 hour-long video chats with those figures, but interestingly the view count isn’t numerous. A surprise or another confirmation that video through the Internet is still a business of lesser quality content. But Epicenter features […]

Shared Logs for Distributed Computing: the case for CORFU

Today I am posting on a more technical subject here for Digital Distributed Asset. This blog has a more business and FinTech related content. But from now and then I will post some important technical or scientific developments about distributed computing in general. Following that note I decided to repost here for everyone about a […]

Distributed Energy on the Blockchain

Energy utility businesses continue to be centralized. This is a business model with more than 100 years, going back to the XIX Century. We are at the dawn of the XXI Century, though. That was what Lawrence Orsini speaking at the Business of Blockchain conference organized by MIT Technology Review told us. His talk was one of […]