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Francis Pouliot separates Bitcoin from blockchain

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 12:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, TNW2019


At TNW2019, Francis Pouliot, CEO and co-founder of Bitcoin exchange BullBitcoin, gave a technical overview of the cryptocurrency’s network, focusing on how it works, and what it’s capable of. During his presentation, Pouliot rounded up Bitcoin’s core value and primary directives. In terms of emergent properties, Pouliot spoke about Bitcoin’s immutability, censorship-resistance, trustless validation, and self sovereignty. He also highlighted the cryptocurrency’s monetary properties, focusing on its decentralized digital scarcity, fungibility, and liquidity. Additionally, Pouliot chatted about the platform’s properties, including security, smart contracts, integration usability, and payments. Pouliot wrapped his talk by clarifying his own stance on the cryptocurrency and…

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Opera: Self-sovereign identity is the next target for dapps

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 12:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, TNW2019


Margarita Khartanovic of Binary District took to the Hard Fork stage at TNW2019 this morning to talk with Charles Hamel, Opera‘s crypto product lead, and Aron Fischer, product developer for Ethereum. The topic of conversation? Realistic use cases for dapps (decentralized applications). According to Hamel, the next big dapp use case isn’t even financial, it will be identity-based. Both Hamel and Fischer agreed the industry has a long way to go before we start seeing people regularly share their identity with websites via the blockchain. Indeed, it won’t happen overnight, but what they both referred to as “self-sovereign identity” could…

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IOTA’s Dominik Schiener is live at TNW2019 – tune in now!

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Welcome to the first day of TNW Conference 2019, our flagship technology festival in Amsterdam. We’re about to kick off our livestream at the eToro Studio, where we’ll be chatting about the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain with some of the industry’s leading experts. Joining us first is Dominik Schiener, co-founder of IoT-focused distributed ledger IOTA. Tune in to the eToro Studio for our chat with him at 14:00PM (CEST) sharp by following this link. Up next are: 14:20PM (CEST): Stephane Ifrah – Co-founder and CEO, NapoleonX 14:40PM (CEST): Gali Benartzi – Co-founder, Bancor 15:00PM (CEST): Yoni Assia – CEO and…

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The Mill’s Rama Allen is live at TNW2019 – tune in now!

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web, TNW2019


Welcome to the second day of TNW Conference 2019, our flagship technology festival in Amsterdam. Up next on the Art of Tech stage is Rama Allen, Executive Creative Director at London-based VFX and creative studio The Mill. Allen is an interactive artist, and futurist. He was included in Adweek’s Creative 100 that listed him as one of the 10 Visual Artists changing the way we see the world. He has created works for IBM, Showtime, HBO, Playstation, and has two Emmy nominations for his True Blood and Vikings title sequences. For his talk titled ‘The Outer Dark,’ Allen will move…

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AI avatars could be the next generation’s favorite entertainers

May10
by on May 10, 2019 at 11:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Insider


Last year, Netflix reportedly published a whopping 1,500 hours of original content. And with the launch of streaming services from Apple and Disney, the on-demand video market is getting very competitive. Media houses and companies are already looking towards the next solution for producing content to keep up with the trend: AI avatars. Last year in November, Chinese state-run media company Xinhua debuted an AI anchor that looked exactly like its real-life counterpart Zhang Zhao. The company said that the avatar speaks both in Mandarin and English. Xinhua said at that time that AI anchors are now officially a part…

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