Imagine if Facebook’s content was hosted on a blockchain — across many thousands of ordinary computers — and governed equally by each of them, rather than Mark Zuckerberg.
- Principal Research Fellow and Co-Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
Despite having no real basis as a financial asset, cryptocurrency Dogecoin recently reached a market cap of more than A$12 billion.
One bespoke contact tracing device is a bluetooth ‘pen’ device, which can be handed in if diagnosed without relying on smartphones.
Libertarianism is a minority concern in Australian politics, but it offers a philosophical framework to understand contemporary social and economic challenges.
Kodak’s new blockchain and cryptocurrency hint at a new kind of intellectual property, one that doesn’t need a government to enforce property rights.
Despite its name, cryptocurrency isn’t just money. It could also be debt or equity and so it should be regulated and taxed in the same way as other finance.
Kevin Rudd believed he protected Australians from the global financial crisis with a bank deposit guarantee. But we already had one.
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