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Op Ed: Energizing the Blockchain — A Canadian Perspective

Canada’s energy sector is facing a challenging economic environment. As in past commodity price cycles, innovation holds the promise of renewal.Sharply lower energy commodity...

PayCommerce Founder: “It’s Time for Blockchain Use Cases to Be Proven and Come to Market”

While 2016 was the year of firms and governments experimenting with blockchain technology, 2017 should be the year we see use cases being proven...

A Closer Look at Bitcoin Unlimited’s Configurable Block Size Proposal

BUIP001 — drafted by Bitcoin Unlimited lead developer Andrew Stone — disposes of the one-megabyte block size limit protocol rule entirely, and replaces it with three configurable options. Two of these are configurable by all node operators, which include regular users as well as miners. And a third option is only for miners.

Decline in Empty Blocks Has Increased Bitcoin’s Transaction Capacity

Empty blocks have turned into a controversial topic in the Bitcoin community over the past few months. This renewed attention on the topic has...

Report: Blockchain Technology Market to Reach $7.7 Billion by 2024

The worldwide blockchain technology market is forecast to reach $7.74 billion by 2024, with the financial services sector accounting for the majority of the...

Blockstream Releases Sidechain White Paper on Liquid and Strong Federations

The seminal Bitcoin sidechains white paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in 2014 by a team that went on to form Blockstream,...

Indian Central Bank Research Institute Completes Blockchain Test

The research arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank, has completed an end-to-end blockchain technology test involving regulators, banks, financial...

Don Tapscott Predicts “Blockchain Davos” at World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting begins this week in Davos, Switzerland, featuring globally recognized blockchain authority Don Tapscott as a key participant....

What Experts Are Predicting for 2017 in Bitcoin and Blockchain Tech

As the year kicks off with an all-time high market cap for Bitcoin on its eighth birthday, 2017 promises to be an exciting year...

Plantoids: The First Blockchain-Based Artificial Life Forms

At a first, superficial glance, a Plantoid is “a welded mechanical sculpture on display in a public space — an aesthetic ornament that exhibits...
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