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Platform Exposure Risk - the biggest risk in distributed ledger technology

One of the largest risks in the blockchain space is that of platform exposure. To simplify things first let’s briefly mention there are three main blockchain pr...

Is society ready for freedom of speech?

One of the largest tenants of the American constitution is the right to freedom of speech. This universal right spans much wider than America, as the tenant is ...

How blockchain developments are permiating the news cycles

There is a saying, all news is good news. With respect to the current wave of blockchain technology, this could not be truer. In early 2016, it was hard to find...

Colliding Ideologies - Governments centralised military style management and open, disruptive blockchain technologies

Since the year 2000 the largest shift in society has been around the fact that society and its leadership models have fundamentally changed. Due to the advent o...

The day that I LOVED going to the bank. It’s the 'end of an era' - RATM

In this last week, there have been two occasions where I have had to make trips to the bank to see a physical teller. Both times I was beaming from ear-to-ear a...

We called it! On-boarding of multinational mass brands starts NOW.

Over the course of 2017 many multinational corporations have been working behind the scenes to enter the blockchain space and race. But so far most of the compa...

WAIT! Did I miss the blockchain/ bitcoin investment opportunity?

2017 was a spectacular year for all things blockchain. Since early Jan there has been an overall prolific rise of tokens and cryptocurrencies as the world start...

Decentralized maximalism and blockchain purists - the Ripple run and debate

Over the last week, we have seen yet another cryptocurrency and blockchain company crush the market and make one of the most noteworthy moves in 2017. That toke...

Show me my tokens! On-boarding issues preventing mass adoption of cryptocurrencies

As we now draw into the final week of 2017 we reflect on what an amazing break-out year it has been for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Against the ...

The Idealogical Clash of Government issued Centralized Tokens vs Bitcoin and the wider open blockchain

In order to understand the main clashes, it is first important to understand a little bit of money history and some of its core principles below. (If your keen ...

Hard stats on the global nature of blockchain/ crypto usage and FACTS you should know!

One of the core tenants that underpin the support and growth of bitcoin and now subsequently blockchain technology is in its decentralized nature. We are so use...

A crypto BACKED by Gold - DigixDAO (DGD). Perfect for all those gold bugs (Peter Schiff) who cannot wrap their head around crypto assets!

As the crypto market ramps up, there is a relatively silent token that continues to be strong and something that blends the old, with the new, based out of our ...

NXT and why the 28th of December is an important date. The run up is certainly on the way

Over the last 72hours there obviously been substantial market movements. One thing I like to do in a crazy market movement is to look back over 7 day moving pri...

How game theory is being deployed and will grow and stabilize cryptocurrencies in 2018

Here at the Blockchain Hub we believe 2018 will be another very strong year for cryptocurrencies and blockchain tech. Here is our underpinning ideas driving thi...

What are early adopters in the blockchain space seeing, that your not?

When I chat with most people about Bitcoin, Ethereum and the blockchain space, most cannot get past the first question of; ‘I don’t see people using bitcoin and...

Why Blockchain will revolutionize society - the story not being told!

Yesterday I was listening to Bitcoin and blockchain expert Andreas Antonopoulos. In the middle of the talk he said something very profound and why I believe so ...

Net Neutrality - ramifications for blockchain technology

The current net neutrality debate has some interesting ramifications on blockchain technology. As blockchains are peer-to-peer and run on decentralized nodes ea...

Hard and Soft forks explained. This is the most simple explantion you will find!

So what do you know about a hard and soft fork on a blockchain? This is an important time with Bitcoin, Steeming ahead to a pivitol hard fork that will split th...

Scaling issues on several blockchains - here is a simple to understand overview of the problem

Here is my latest youtube clip of the most simple overview of current scaling issues that several blockchains are facing. As mentioned in a critical post by Vit...

Hacked exchanges, hacked accounts - Be careful out there everyone!

If you missed the news, this has made massive headlines today. One of Koreas biggest exchanges has been hacked and hundreds of millions of dollars of WON have b...