Juan Llanos Explains How DIgital Currency Will End Poverty

Digital currencies, based on blockchain are doing much more than the flashy bitcoin and ICO stories tell. Companies like Bazista will allow any one to trade anywhere, without the friction of currency conversions. Juan Llanos spoke at TEDxMidAtlantic about the high costs involved in doing business between African nations and internationally: Watch it now. About […]

Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the supply chain

We are starting to see announcments about Blockchain in all sorts of business. Here’s another one. The difference this time is scope of supply chains. We know that every product combines mining, refining of raw materials, manufacturing of sub-assemblies, transportation, assembly and distribution.  The final product you receive may contain parts from a dozen countries […]

How the Blockchain revolution will be bigger than the internet

The internet has changed things about as much as anything in history.  Now we’re seeing blockchain uses that go well beyond the currencies that are in the news today.  Imagine if every transaction between people. All finance, legal, trading, transportation, records, health, property.. anything in a ledger were secure and private but transparent in a […]

Bitcoin’s Price Reaches An All-Time High -and At Least One Trader Believes That Is Just the Beginning

Bitcoin has recently made it through a chain split unscathed, due to the impending lock-in of SegWit, a somewhat controversial solution to Bitcoin’s scalability issues.  Shortly after the split on August 1st, which brought us Bitcoin Cash, in addition to Bitcoin, miners continued to signal for the activation of SegWit, an alternative scaling solution to […]

Overstock to Keep 50% of All Bitcoin Payments as Investments

Here’s a way to accumulate come Bitcoin. Sell millions! This story will be my “go to” for the 12 people a day who tell me you can’t buy anything with cryptocurrency 🙂 Online retailer Overstock.com is shifting its cryptocurrency investment strategy keeping half of the bitcoin it takes in as payment, the company’s CEO has […]