First there was Bitcoin, friend of criminals, speculators and tech geeks everywhere. It’s grown amazingly. Then there were alternatives to Bitcoin, often sharing much of the same code, but with ...

Last year, I spent some time in Jakarta visiting HARA, an AWS customer. They've created a way to connect small farms in developing nations to banks and distributors of goods, like seeds, fertilizer, ...

Hence blockchain. A blockchain is made up of two primary components: a decentralized network facilitating and verifying transactions, and the immutable ledger that network maintains. Everyone in the ...

Blockchain: Immutable Ledger, But Admissible Evidence? This article begins with a brief overview of blockchain technology, then addresses the current evidentiary hurdles blockchain records face, and ...

What Is a Distributed Ledger? Blockchain has gotten a lot of attention recently thanks largely to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but distributed ledgers have not received the same level of focus.

The power of the blockchain, the technology that underlies the immutability of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, may be that once a transaction is secured it cannot be changed or edited. To combat forgery ...

Amazon last year dismissed the idea of getting into the blockchain with AWS, but today that’s changed. The company announced a new service called Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, or QLDB, which is a ...

The video above from the Late Night With Seth Myers show does a pretty good job of breaking down the mind-bendingly weird world of Bitcoin (in hilarious fashion), which has been gaining of late in ...

Blockchain is being explored by a wider and wider audience everyday, and traditional centralized bodies like banks and governments are starting to take interest into what the tech can do for them. But ...