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Die Blockchain-Technologie tangiert nicht nur die Finanzindustrie; sie bietet vielerlei Potenziale für innovative Anwendungen im industriellen oder öffentlichen Kontext. Dies stellt viele Unternehmen und Anwender vor ganz neue Herausforderungen. [weiterlesen]

A short essay on one of the results of the Blockchain Summer School in 2017 in Copenhagen. [weiterlesen]

On August 1st, 2017 Bitcoin will most likely split into Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). What does this mean for Bitcoin and what happens/can happen to the blockchain in the case of a softfork/hardfork? And when does a fork lead to a chain split? [weiterlesen]

After the recent price crash in cryptocurrency markets news articles stated that several billion dollars were “lost”. While this is true with regard to market capitalization, one should keep in mind that the market capitalization is a hypothetical number, which can be biased by a lack of liquidity… [weiterlesen]

Save the date: From August 28, 2017 to September 1, 2017 we will organize an “IoT/Ethereum summer camp” in Frankfurt, Germany. Join us as participant or corporate partner! [weiterlesen]

BlockShow Europe 2017 – Europe's largest Blockchain conference – was held on April 5th and 6th in Munich. It featured more than 20 speakers and attracted about 600 participants. [weiterlesen]

Distributed Ledger Technology, the Blockchain Mini-Track Part of the Internet and the Digital Economy Track Link: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-51/internet-and-the-digital-economy/ 51st annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 3–6, 2018 | Hilton Waikoloa… [weiterlesen]

The number of active reachable full nodes in the Bitcoin network continuously declined over the last years due to a lack of monetary incentive. Having a larger number of nodes which replicate the blockchain and accept valid blocks is essential for the protocol to work in a distributed manner,… [weiterlesen]