Posts tagged "blockchain"

Looking at what StartupSmart readers liked the most this year, one clear trend sticks out: blockchain and Bitcoin were the hottest topics of 2018.

Since Bitcoin was born in 2008, we have seen extraordinary hype, astronomical price booms and busts and thousands of spin-off cryptocurrencies.

A selling point of blockchain is once data is added to the chain, it can’t be changed or removed, but this is an issue given one's “right to be forgotten”.

An Australian fishmonger is gearing up to take on the “antiquated” fishing industry through the launch of new app-based seafood trading platform ShoreTrade.

Cryptocurrency has come full circle, with Singapore startup Tangem creating a physical manifestation of bitcoin that you can carry in your pocket.

Here's what it's really like to pitch a blockchain business in China, and how Australian startups fare on the world stage.

With cryptocurrency prices plunging over the past eight months, will initial coin offerings (ICOs) remain a viable funding option for blockchain startups?

CSIRO’s Data61 data innovation group is collaborating with law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and IBM to build a national blockchain for smart contracts.

Freelancer founder Matt Barrie has advised startups not to get “enamoured” with cryptocurrencies, but to focus on solving a problem instead.

Puzzles used to protect bitcoin are so complex that current technology cannot crack them. But quantum computers could crack these puzzles in coming decades.

A $1 billion five-year technologies deal between the Australian government and IBM will accelerate the uptake of new technologies in the public sector.

Australian blockchain-based energy trading startup Power Ledger is partnering with the Silicon Valley power grid to work towards incentivising drivers of electric vehicles to charge their rides during the day, rather than at peak times.