Micropole Blockchain Lab: May 2019
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We will be exposing at the Belgian Sap Festival on the 6th of June. We will demo our latest blockchain project. Come meet us and check out how we integrated a blockchain between the ERP’s of 2 companies.
Blockchain 50: Billion Dollar Babies - A summary of how 50 of the biggest companies in the world are testing and integrating blockchain technology.
Podcast - Off The Chain - with an IBM blockchain director - Listen to this podcast where a director of blockchain at IBM explains his work and IBM’s vision on the private blockchains. IBM are the original developers of Fabric and have the most blockchain projects in production.
Why Everyone In Crypto Is Talking About DeFi - DeFi is the acronym for Decentralized Finance. It describes the new set of financial tools that are enabled by blockchain technology. You will hear that term more and more. This article is an introduction to the concept.
Moving Beyond ‘The Blockchain Is the App’ - In this very interesting piece, an engineer at Intel describes a clear use case for blockchain as the way for multiple machines (autonomous cars in this case) to communicate together and make decisions without a central authority.
Slowly But Surely: May Was a Quietly Big Month for Blockchain - A summary of some big news that happened this past month in the blockchain space.
Microsoft Is Building Decentralized Identity Solutions on Bitcoin's Blockchain - An explanation on the very recent move by Microsoft to offer decentralized identity and sign-in solutions thanks to the Bitcoin blockchain.
Yes, You May Need a Blockchain - An argument for using blockchain instead of traditional databases to open the access of information to a wider audience.
Amazon Web Services Opens Blockchain Building Service Up for Wider Use - The service to host a blockchain on AWS was in beta and was available to a selected few. They now lifted the beta prefix and made the service public. It is now available for production use.
If you are interested in the implementation of blockchain technology in your company but do not know where to start, contact us about our blockchain design thinking sessions. (Check out Jonathan’s article about Blockchain Design Thinking at Micropole).