2016 : The Blockchain Awakens

We will remember 1995-2015 as the 20 year era of the centralized client-server Internet.  As we enter 2016 and the “blockchain awakens”, let’s take a quick look at how we got here: 1995: The Dawn of the Internet 20 years ago in 1995, the Internet took its big first steps: HTTP documented and HTML 2.0 released Netscape […]

@Lessig Keynote: Deja vu all over again (#BlockchainSYD)

Highly recommended: A brilliant blockchain keynote by a brilliant mind, Lawrence Lessig, at Blockchain Workshops, Sydney – December 11, 2015. This is deja vu for me as well.  I worked for a high flying public internet technology incubator and I saw Lessig speak so passionately about the innovation in ‘Fight For Your Right to Innovate’ at […]

Bitcoin & Blockchain Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Believed Found

News of the potential inventor of Bitcoin and “blockchain” technology, Satoshi Nakamoto, broke on December 8, 2015 on Wired Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius and Gizmodo This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin. The reporting provides compelling evidence of the investigation. Dr. Craig Steven Wright, shown here introducing himself […]