Ten years after bitcoin started, I still hear many educated people saying "bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme" or "it has no value" (or both). Some months ago, I wrote an article called "What's

By now, we have established that steem is much more than a blockchain. It has often be said that "steem is about the community", that "community is everything". Utopian on the scene

"Lux witness" was started almost one year ago in Luxembourg by Pablo Staiano (@pstaiano, "keyboards") and Sorin Cristescu (@sorin.cristescu, "vocals"). Our goal was to learn

Report STEEM Witnesses are the pillars of the STEEM blockchain but many Steemians don’t even know we exist or don’t even care. Those who know and/or care don’t have much visibility on what the “job” involves

Steemfest3 by @roelandp (and team) in Krakow, Poland, was a superb event that added to the solidity of the foundations upon which Steem's value is built. Steemfest is about building community and, as this

Context and Objectives The steem blockchain, backbone of the Steem ecosystem, has been recently upgraded to a new major version, called "Hard Fork 20" (HF20 in short). This post looks at: the

I should have written this article a long time ago. I am an "IBM-certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer" since February 2018, following a two-days course on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 technology.

The most elaborate working crypto-economic model, however, is Steemit, an online forum which rewards its 1m or so registered users for posting contributions or rating content with real money in the form

Repository What Will I Learn? How to customize and install the steem software How to configure a witness node, a seed node, and an RPC node How to create and configure more witnesses for the same chain

The marching witness of the best blockchain source With every passing month we grow more convinced that steem and its ecosystem of dApps are the best all-around implementation of the revolutionary blockchain

Utopian for the Blockchain Competence Centre of the European commission Utopian.io is running this task request on behalf of the Blockchain Competence Centre of the European commission for the European

Cet article est une traduction de "Blockchain in large organizations". Vendredi 15 juin j'ai présenté dans une conférence au titre un peu prétentieux: «Blockchain in Banking Summit» à Madrid.

This picture featuring, from left to right, @gudde-wellen, @smartiot and @pstaiano (a.k.a. 1/2 @lux-witness) marks a landmark event: for the first time in Luxembourg's history, beer has been paid for with

It's been three weeks since our previous witness update and we have accomplished quite a lot during this time. We are building steadily for the world to realize that steem is the best all-around blockchain

Advancing Europe with the steem blockchain Background The European Capital Market is in many respects still fragmented. Improving transparency and access to information has been shown to stimulate financial

When "Internet" spread, companies responded with "intranets". Is blockchain also relevant for large organizations?

New report from @lux-witnessLes Nouvelles de @lux-witness A big "Thank you!" to all those who approved us! A reminder: @lux-witness is a "new generation witness" being run by @pstaiano

The Trust machine Free picture from freepik I have long been fascinated by the role TRUST plays in shaping our societies and our lives. My attention has been drawn to the blockchain back in 2013 when,

Ok guys so this is a scoop. A big one. Right after lunch at the Berlaymont I rushed to the European Parliament for a conference called "Blockchain, the Game Changer of the 4th Industrial Revolution"

source What we did We did it! We minted our first block! Four days ago, @lux-witness has validated the transactions, signed and appended block number 22 682 862 to the steem blockchain, and the other witnesses