When I was a kid I was supposed to get five vaccines in school. I think it was five. I have no idea what they were. I was gearing up to travel Asia last year and needed to know which ones I hadn’t received, so I did a cursory…
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Complex problems call for innovative solutions. Here’s one: In 2017 alone, over 500,000 Rohingya refugees fled violence in Myanmar to promises of a safer life in Bangladesh. As an ethnic minority, the Rohingya people have suffered persecution and been denied Burmese citizenship for decades. They are citizens without passports…
On November 19, 2017, more than $30 million worth of Tether tokens were removed from the official Tether Treasury wallet by malicious hackers. Due to this security breach, Tether has executed a newly hard forked version of the Omni Core code, which powers the Tether network. Why? Because this…
O, Canada has been doing some cool stuff with blockchain lately, eh? It’s been pointed out that Ontario is home to one of the highest concentrations of tech firms outside of Silicon Valley. Toronto in particular is second only to New York in the scheme of North American financial…
Smart contract technology is booming with the release of Ethereum and programming languages such as Solidity and Serpent, that have made contracts much simpler to build and deploy. The idea has been around for a long time, though. Nick Szabo, the cryptographer known for his research on digital currency,…
From socializing to hailing a cab to finding our way around, there’s an app to help. Now, there is a new and improved model that is revolutionizing the way we build scalable applications called a DApp, or decentralized application. David Johnston, CEO of the DApp Fund, predicts in his…
Equity and debt-structured financing has dominated the startup market and the world of investments for some time now. To remain solvent during the debt-repayment process, entrepreneurs and their hopeful companies must keep a significant amount of fixed-value assets on-hand to cover these liabilities. They must maintain both solvency and…
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