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Malta, Gibraltar and the Isle of Man - three countries that were on the fringe of technology till a few years ago are at the center of the biggest technological revolution of the day - Blockchain. I am back in Asia, and I reached Delhi despite the fog to meet some government officials to further the conversations that I have been having for the last year. On the sidelines, I met with a few technology leaders and picked their brains. The one thing we all were unanimous was the slow pace at which the government is moving towards technology adoption. Do not get me wrong, there is a lot of action going on with regards to Digital India, however, the edge is missing.  Read more :   http://bit.ly/2Nkrpw8

Hurricane Dorian has touched land and touched many lives in its path. This is a disaster at a scale that needs the society to come together and do something concrete to help those who have been affected. I was discussing the ways that unaffected citizen could lend a helping hand, and I found a very genuine concern raised. A friend of mine said that if we take away the management cost of the charity being sent, we will be able to service a lot many more people than we do currently. Read more 

I spoke on the topic "Blockchain in Government" a few months back in Mumbai. I specifically chose the subject as it is a hot topic of discussion. My interaction at various levels of governments in the few months preceding had given me a unique perspective. I frequently start the process by asking a few simple questions. These questions are the qualifiers to ascertain if Blockchain can be of any assistance. The first couple of questions are about the use and the source of the data - if multiple parties share the data and if multiple parties updated the data. Read more  

If you have been following my blogs, you will know that I am what you may call an emerging tech fan. Emerging technologies have the potential to reshape the world for the better and it will be an exciting decade staring in a few months. The 2020s will be a decade of rapid growth so far as technologies are in consideration. You will see the implementation of a slew of tech innovations that you have not even heard about. yes, AI, AR, DLT, and IoT are already being implemented in the field but there are many technologies still in the labs, getting ready for their unveiling.  Read more : http://bit.ly/2MBYx3O

Although we are still a capitalist world, socialist ideologies are taking a foothold, and I think that is a positive development. I have been closely associated with many business bodies and committees, having lived in California for the last decade, which looked at the social impact of technologies. Now that the hype around cryptocurrencies and ICOs have died down, we are witnessing the emergence of the real Blockchain economy. Read more 

For an average internet surfer, the world wide web is a seamless flow of websites and information. Look closer, and you see many different layers that work connected, yet independent. The most simple example is how you have traditional websites and the Tor-based onion sites. In near future we will see a premium web network come up. This will be based in the Blockchain network. Not all websites will migrate to this or even need this. But, this will be the future that will drive real innovation in intellectual property rights. There will be a blockchain-based youtube alternative shortly. Read more

I have often talked about DLT and cryptocurrencies and my limited belief in actual adoption by governments, at this juncture of time. Yes, there are lots of pilots running, and yes, governments are posturing a lot. However, actual adoption is not happening. I am not trying to pain everything by the same brush. I do understand that governments across the globe have responded to this promising but unproven technology differently. Some governments are being apathetic; some are adopting a wait-and-watch approach, while some are creating regulatory sandboxes and sponsoring limited testing.  Read more

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing one of the biggest failures of his career - Libra. It can be simply called a Failure to Launch. We all know that 27 companies including luxury brands were backing the new cryptocurrency Libra, a brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg. Among others, Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer Vacheron Constantin, multinational conglomerate LVMH, and online luxury fashion retail platform Farfetch announced that they have joined hands with the likes of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and eBay, to co-found the Libra Association. Read more

Indian Financial system is one of the most tightly regulated one in the world. Their cautious and conservative approach to Distributed Ledger Technology is understandable. A government panel has called for a ban on cryptocurrencies and wants 10-year-jail for violations. It is not like the other option (read regulations) was not considered. Read more

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Donald Trump expressed his mistrust of cryptocurrency Thursday, saying it was ”not money” and warning that those wishing to join the trade would have to abide by banking regulations. ”I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air,” Trump tweeted. Read more

Across the world, there are people working two jobs to lead a normal life. It is probably safe to say that freelancing is providing many households with the extra income that they so desperately require. But with desperation, comes exploitation. The platforms favor the clients, not the freelancers, for the simple reason that the clients are the ones who are spending on the platform. Read more

The American Congress has passed a blockchain-related bill named S. 553, wherein it brings into effect the Blockchain Promotion Act of 2019. I read quite a few messages on social media calling it historic and headed over to the Congress website to read the whole bill. R ead more

3 weeks ago India Dapp (Decentralized Application) Fest 2019 kicked off and now videos with great information are surfacing from the event. Sachin Maheshwari, who is a software integration engineer from Ripple gave the typical Ripple presentation consisting of the current problems of the modern day correspondent banking infrastructure, then leading into how they solve this problem, then finally giving a visual explanation of the three Ripple products xCurrent, xRapid, and xVia.  Read more

Blockchain is definitely one of the most influential technologies of our time. This, despite naysayers pulling Blockchain down every chance they got. With the increased focus on the Smart Cities, Blockchain has found a new application. Many cities across the world are busy experimenting with blockchain technology to shape the urban future. Read more

The way we live our lives has changed a lot over the last few decades. Had you told my father in 1960s, when he was a teenager, that he would be able to watch movies on demand, he would have laughed at you. Now, if you were to tell me 30 years ago when I was a teenager that my house will be controlled by voice and respond to my commands, I would have laughed at you. The same way that a teenager today will laugh at us if we told them that in future there will be no offices, just work desks that you could randomly sit at in an arena. Read more 

Smart contract platform and decentralized blockchain protocol Tezos  recently struck a deal with Latin America’s largest investment bank  BTG Pactual (and Brazil’s 5th largest bank), along with Dubai-based asset management firm Dalma Capital to sell an estimated $1 billion in security token offerings. In an  announcement published on the Tezos Foundation website  (July 3rd), the Tezos Foundation principal Hubertus Thonhauser emphasized.... Read more

Several cryptocurrency analysts and traders are now predicting that the Bitcoin price could surpass $60,000 this bull run cycle. These oddly specific forecasts supposedly come from technical data and historical Bitcoin cycles. Technical and historical data supposedly suggest Bitcoin bull run to $60,000.  Read more 

In this new age economy, data is the biggest asset a company can own. If you think that Facebook is a half-trillion-dollar company because it has millions of users, think twice. Facebook is what it is because of the data being generated by those millions of users. Blockchain might be the nemesis of Facebook, only if it solves the problem of scalability and speed. It is time that millions of people around the world stopped working, unknowingly, for Facebook and started working for themselves. Read more

What is Industry Trust? Industrial Products from around the world are available for consumers today, regardless of its physical presence in the country of purchase. Imagine buying raw material in Ghana from a warehouse in Germany in 1980s. It would have taken 3 middlemen, 2 months, and a stack of correspondence to get it. Now, you can do that with a B2B commerce website in no time. Read more