In a fascinating moment of real blending with virtual, an art collector named Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile recently sold a 10-second video artwork for $6.6 million. The catch? Anyone could – and…
Blockchain
Medium called blockchain as the most significant technology trend of 2020 and with a rising focus on digitisation and fintechs around the globe, a shift to crypto-currency is foreseen especially…
by Anuran Khan, Feb 15 2021
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An alternative voting mechanism aims to capture how strongly members of the public feel about a particular policy or topic, beyond simple approval or rejection. In ‘Quadratic Voting’, voters are…
The World Bank has priced the world’s first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a $100 million ($73.16 million) deal designed to test how the technology might…
Liverpool City Council has signed a ground-breaking contract with an eco-digital company, the Poseidon Foundation, in a bid to become the world’s first “carbon positive” city by 2020. By becoming…
A collection of philanthropists, academics and investors, working in partnership with the French Polynesian government, have begun The Floating Island Project. This a pilot program, which will see 300 homes…
A group of Buddhist programmers have created the world’s first cryptocurrency-based spiritual community. Lotos is an online Buddhist network built on Ethereum blockchain. Members pay a monthly fee to access…
The OpenLitterMap Foundation has created a blockchain reward system for anyone who wants to help map plastic pollution. Littercoin is a Citizen Science Open Data Litter-Mapping Game that allows users…
A new platform aims to provide some of the world’s 2.4 billion people who lack official identification a way to build financial and social history, as well as access to public…
Iceland is experiencing an exponential rise in Bitcoin mining. As a result, energy use at Bitcoin mining data centres is thought likely to exceed that of all homes in the country,…
Unicef has recently launched a pilot project called Unicef’s Game Chaingers, which recruits gamers to use the processing power of their computers to mine cryptocurrency Ether, to aid Syrian children. …
Akshaya Patra, an Indian NGO that runs the world’s largest mid-day meal program of its kind, is teaming up with Accenture to use blockchain to improve meal delivery to schoolchildren.
