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At the Speed of Money: How Cryptocurrency Will Transform Everything | David Morris | TEDxTampaBay

Published on Oct 28, 2015

At TEDxTampaBay, David explores how Bitcoin and related technologies will radically change just about everything.

Passionate about the intersection of technology and culture, Dr. David Z. Morris is a researcher with a PhD in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Iowa. As a writer and strategist, David has written about Bitcoin and other technology for Fortune, The Atlantic, Aeon, and Pacific Standard. His academic work has appeared in journals including Technology and Culture and Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and he has received research awards from the National Communication Association and the Modern Language Association. He is a former research fellow with both the Japan Foundation for the Promotion of Science and the University of South Florida’s Provost’s Fellows program.
 

Blockchain and the middleman

Published on Sep 22, 2017

Transactions have always involved middlemen. They establish trust—but also bring extra cost, complexity, and potential for error. Blockchain provides a secure, fast, transparent, and error-free digital record of the history of transactions, and so has the potential to replace many intermediaries. Will it?
 

Microsoft and Blue Prism collaborate to deliver intelligent automation capabilities

Published on Oct 16, 2017

Microsoft, Blue Prism and Identitii have teamed-up to streamline financial transactions and address money laundering using blockchain technology. This solution enables banks and financial institutions to use Blue Prism to automate and audit financial transactions while Azure provides the machine learning analytics and Identitii the database capabilities.
 

Samsung: Mine bitcoin with old Galaxy S5s

Published on Oct 30, 2017

The software is coming in a future update

Samsung read the last e-waste report from Greenpeace too, and likely wasn't too happy about the slamming it got from the organization. Which leads us to the Korean electronics juggernaut's system for upcycling old phones. Specifically, the company rigged a bunch of them together and turned them into a bitcoin mining contraption. According to Motherboard, Samsung strung 40 Galaxy S5 together to mine recently, and apparently just eight of them wired together can mine in a way that's more power-efficient than a desktop computer.
 

What is Bitcoin? - Live Q&A

Streamed live January 18, 2018

Crypto-currencies like Bitcoin are becoming more and more popular with investors and online businesses, but what exactly is it? Find out everything you need to know in todays live show and be sure to leave your comments in the chat box!
 

How cryptocurrency can help startups get investment capital | Ashwini Anburajan

Published on Oct 30, 2018

We're living in a golden era of innovation, says entrepreneur Ashwini Anburajan -- but venture capital hasn't evolved to keep up, and startups aren't getting the funding they need to grow. In this quick talk, she shares the story of how her company became part of an entirely new way to raise capital, using the powers of cooperation and cryptocurrency.
 
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