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The last day in Prague served as a final reminder of the wider reach of decentralization. If the first two days explained the more technical aspects of how best to achieve a multi-node organizational strategy, the October 7, 2018, presentations explained the philosophy on top of them. Different systems of trust have defined, razed, and rebuilt societies since time immemorial;…

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Developed by the Airbus Foundation, Heritage is a decentralized framework to help the Foundation receive and manage donations for itself and some other charitable organizations it works with using the Ethereum blockchain. Since March 2013 when the open source blockchain project commenced at Airbus’ Silicon Valley outpost A3, it has sought to utilize Ethereum in assisting the Foundation’s disaster relief…

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The blockchain technology is set to be deployed for the development of a “smart port” in the city of Valencia, Spain. The announcement was made on October 3, 2018, during the Smart Ports & Supply Chain Technologies conference held in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. End-to-end Transparency in Logistics Chain Jose Garcia De La Guia, head of emerging technologies at…

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Day two of The Hackers Congress continued to shed light on the liberty fighting technologies emerging from decentralization. Naturally, observers recognize Bitcoin as the king of both freedom and innovation, but there are many other means (and reasons) for dismantling centralized structures. From the presentations, spectators gained a better insight into how a headless organization with nodes scattered across a…

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The fifth rendition of The Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP18) opened on October 5, 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic. The three-day event welcomed a fusion of developers, artists, politicians, and activists into one cryptic-centric location to discuss the year’s theme: New Order. Two Sides of a New Order The opening press conference held on the first floor of the Institute…

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While blockchain technology is a technological invention rooted in complex scientific and mathematical foundations, the innovation is also the embodiment of particular ideologies. These ideologies are as varied as the users of the technology. Brett Scott, the author of the acclaimed book, “Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money,” shared his thoughts on the various ideologies that…

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The University of Sydney and CSIRO’s Data61 have successfully created a blockchain that can process a mass amount of transactions significantly faster than public blockchains, such as the one behind bitcoin, The Financial Review reported on September 25, 2018. Red Belly Blockchain Validated in a Global Test The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Data61 and the Concurrent Systems…

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Maps and addressing systems have been the foundation of our lives that have had a significant contribution to shaping the way one commutes. Maps have been an integral part in setting up global business and commerce from pre-colonial days and continued to do today. With the introduction of technology, these location addressing tools have moved from ancient large maps used…

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Thanks to the overly popular Ethereum blockchain game CryptoKitties, the ERC-721 tokens have come into the foray of the DLT world. CryptoKitties is basically a collectible card game where the players have the option to buy, sell and exchange virtual cats. What sets CryptoKitties apart from most of the other games is the fact that every digital feline is unique…

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While the internet only started out as a military research project in the 1960s, it has since become the single largest computer network in the world, disseminating information, news, and entertainment at an unprecedented scale. Although skeptics called the internet a fad a mere 20 years ago, several governments, banks, and businesses would be crippled without it today. Dissecting the…

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