The Blockchain Academy Europe Luxembourg 26-27 November 2018
The Blockchain Academy Europe, the fifth edition of our European course on Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Crypto economy held in Luxembourg at Hotel Le Royal was a great success. The Blockchain Academy Europe brought CEOs, Managers, Entrepreneurs, Investors and Students…
The Russian Military gets on board with Blockchain against hackers
The Russian defense ministry is setting up a research laboratory to develop blockchain technologies and apply it to improve cybersecurity and fight cyber assaults. Read more and discover how the blockchain can help the army track possible hack attacks and…
The Blockchain & Bitcoin Academy Milan 21-22 May 2018
Our Blockchain & Bitcoin Academy (4th edition) held in Milan on May 21st-22nd was another milestone in our path of spreading knowledge and expertise on a topic which has seen too much unexpected hype from various sources. Our approach, which…
Attending BlockShow Berlin 2018
Blockshow Europe is major European conference organized by The Cointelegraph event about Blockchain in which the most recent industry trends and insights will be unveiled. It is a great opportunity to bring together the international Blockchain community and Blockchain Business…
The Lightning Network goes live
The Lightning Network (LN) is live on mainnet: there are already more than 793 nodes and 1683 channels operating on a global level. The most update graphical visualization of LN can be found at this link https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ LN is a “second layer” payment…
Blockchain Academy Munich – October 9 – 10 2017
The Blockchain Academy organized by B3 – Blockchain Business Board and held in Munich on October 9th -10th was another milestone in our internationalization process. We had the chance to share our views on Blockchain developments with a very varied…
What if you bought 1 Bitcoin during our past Courses?
Did you know that some of our attendees earned more than what they paid for our Course? When we started our Blockchain Academy in Milan last year Bitcoin was almost starting its 2017 rally. It was December 12th 2016 and…
Bitcoin Cash to fork Bitcoin on August 1st
On August 1 2017 12:20 UTC, Bitcoin Cash developers will split off from the original Bitcoin blockchain thus creating a new coin called Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash is essentially a fork of the ledger, that means Bitcoin owners will own the…
Bitcoin on the verge of activating BIP91
There have been some very important BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) over the last year and a half. The most notorious one is Segregated Witness or SegWit as it is called today. Segregated Witness is a way to scale the protocol…
Swiss Private Bank to allow Digital Currencies asset management
Switzerland is globally recognized for banking practices. The country has been one of the most welcoming to digital currency business and enthusiasts. For example in Zug, the Swiss “Crypto Valley”, there are many digital currency businesses operating within in the…
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Abstract A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost…
What is Blockchain technology
The word Blockchain as it is intended today has come a long way: it should be noticed that the term itself cannot be found in the original Bitcoin white paper written by the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto who defined at first…
Hayek Money: The Cryptocurrency Price Stability Solution
Abstract Bitcoin has enabled competition between digital cryptocurrencies and traditional legal tender fiat currencies. Despite rapidly increasing acceptance, so far the affirmation of cryptocurrency as better money has been thwarted by dramatic deflationary price instability. Successful at disposing of any…
ECB – Distributed ledger technologies in securities post trading
Abstract Over the last decade, information technology has contributed significantly to the evolution of financial markets, without, however, revolutionising the way in which financial institutions interact with one another. This may be about to change, as some market players are…
Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data
Abstract The recent increase in reported incidents of surveillance and security breaches compromising users’ privacy call into question the current model, in which third-parties collect and control massive amounts of personal data. Bitcoin has demonstrated in the financial space that…
BLOCKCHAINS IN NATIONAL DEFENSE: TRUSTWORTHY SYSTEMS IN A TRUSTLESS WORLD
ABSTRACT The ability of the USAF to prevail in the highly contested environment of 2040 will be dictated by its ability to defend cyber-enabled systems, and the data within them, from compromise and manipulation. Yet contemporary cyber defense is faltering,…
Blockchain & Start-ups: a new economic paradigm
Today we were in Munich for the Blockchain & Start-ups Digital Executive Community, an exclusive event organized by BTO Research. BTO Research Program is an Italian Leading Research Center on ICT and Digital Fields which offers a unique set of…
Intro to Initial Coin Offerings – ICOs
The name reminds that of IPOs or Initial Public Offerings (IPO) where stocks of a private company are offered to the public. ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings are quite the same but instead of stocks, blockchain or non-blockchain based coins…
Litecoin gains traction
After a successful SegWit (Segregated Witness) implementation in May Litecoin saw a huge growth recently. For a long time span Litecoin has been hovering on the $3 range while after SegWit tentative implementation was announced by Charlie Lee, Litecoin main…
Increasing demand for skilled Blockchain professionals
Demand for expertise in Blockchain enabled technologies is rising from every industry while there is a lack of blockchain experts worldwide. Many companies are creating and starting their own Blockchain teams but skilled professional within this field are in huge…
From $600 up to $2800: how the Bitcoin price went up
In June 2016, the Bitcoin price was about to start a long march to its all-time-high price. After less than two years of price stagnation everything changed. More and more people are looking at Bitcoin, discovering Blockchain technology related use…
The Blockchain Academy Certificate notarized on the Blockchain
The latest Blockchain Academy held at Politecnico di Milano on December 12-13 2016 was a great success. At the end of our two days’ course on Blockchain we awarded all our participants with the following certificate which has been then…
Scaling Bitcoin: ready, set, go
Over the next weekend in Milan (8-9 October) some of the biggest players involved in Bitcoin will try to discuss and analyze on how to shape Bitcoin’s future to effectively tackle further scalability issues. The Scaling Bitcoin Workshop sold out…
Blockchain needs a native digital asset
Ferdinando Ametrano talks about the interdipendence between blockchain and a native digital asset