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Blockchain technology is familiar to us in the form of digital currency bitcoin. And if it makes it way to the mainstream, could it change the way the world does business forever?
Providing security in the blockchain would convert into a degree of predictability in the technology. If this was shown to work in the long term, it would also create trust.
Bitcoin’s central appeal of anonymous, irreversible transactions could become its biggest weakness.
All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.
While the current speculation in crypto-currency and assets should make us pause, this is not a speculative driven bubble like tulips, or gold mining stocks.
The blockchain has been successful when it comes to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but we haven’t yet figured out other uses.
The digital world is taking more and more space in our lives… and dramatically increasing electrical use. It’s a serious problem given the urgent need fight climate change.
NHS data is being held to ransom by criminals. This the mother of all wake-up calls.
Laws cannot keep pace with technological advances – but that may not be a bad thing.
Money is pouring into exchange traded funds, but making a bitcoin one isn’t necessarily a good idea.
The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa’s legacies of underdevelopment.
The blockchain isn’t just for Bitcoin transactions. Advertisers can no longer ignore blockchain’s huge implications for the world of marketing.
The cryptocurrency is now starting to challenge gold as the investment of choice.
New financial innovations and products are constantly being touted as the safe haven of the future. But physical gold has properties that will cause it to stick around.
Where our money comes from is deeply political and the politics involved is often highly complex.
Many believe we can stabilise the power supply by asking customers to help - but there’s a problem.
What a difference a year makes. In January 2016, ASX was bathing in the warm glow of having been acclaimed by Blythe Masters, an American super saleswoman and head of a Blockchain start-up called Digital…
The transaction system underlying the bitcoin network has far broader uses than easing financial transfers – including identifying people and tracking property ownership.
Chaos happens when ‘smart’ contracts act stupidly.
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Professor of Law, University of East London
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology, University of Reading
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Assistant Professor - Geography and Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia
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Senior Lecturer in Business and Commercial Law, Lancaster University
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Hon Associate Professor. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, University of Salford
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Professor of AI and Public Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro