We need a simple, safe, and privacy-preserving link to test results. — Businesses and communities everywhere are struggling to safely and effectively reopen following the lockdowns and social distancing policies triggered by the COVID 19 pandemic. The only way to make this happen is to provide as much meaningful, relevant, and actionable data as possible to decision makers on the ground. …

Why lockdowns, surveillance and contact tracing fall short — and what doesn’t. — Freedom. Gone. Life was so simple. We used to be able to travel, hop in a car or train, meet anybody we want, walk into any building or store, have fun, study, attend church. And then came Covid-19, and so many freedoms vanished. Our social life and businesses were closed down. And…

Looking Beyond the Asia-Libra-China Trap — Is the crypto-rush toward Asia a trap? Are we deceiving ourself? Missing the biggest of them all? Asia is supposed to lead the rest of the world in Blockchain adoption and technologies. There are lots of reasons to think so. There are also strong arguments pointing at something different. President Xi’s announcement First…

Why blockchain technologies can create the most effective cyber-security mechanisms — At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the annual cost of cyberattacks has reached trillions of US dollars. Expenditures on cybersecurity are measured in the hundreds of billions of US dollars per year. It is a lucrative market. But the situation continues to worsen. …

5 Key Takeways from the Eurasia Blockchain Conference in Istanbul More likely than not, the major blockchain battles for empowerment of people and a better future will be fought somewhere else than Turkey. But this week’s impressive Eurasia Blockchain Summit showed that its market and people matter. Attendance and energy…

Five Key Takeaways from the 2019 Cryptofin Conference in Tallinn Diversity is good and benefits everybody, as Lavinia Osbourne from Women in Blockchain Talks correctly pointed out during the 2019 Cryptofin conference (#cryptofinconf) in Tallinn, Estonia. …

5 Key Takeaways from a High-Profile London Blockchain Conference Like in physical mining, not the digital version of it, gems usually are below the surface. And sometimes finding the most valuable ones requires digging a bit deeper. It was similar at the CC-Forum blockchain conference in London. …

How Idaho can catch up and ride the wave of the innovative future — 20 billion dollars. That is the short-term haul the State of Wyoming aims to get from East Asian and particularly Hong Kong businesses by the summer of 2019. The source: Blockchain companies. That is 20 billion dollars more than Idaho.

The Powerful Argument for Blockchain in Project Management — This story was first published here. At the end of the 2010s, almost all businesses still plan, manage, and execute their projects inside corporate silos. This is inadequate and contradicts powerful and accelerating trends of global business. Emerging technologies are transforming global commerce towards ever more digitization, integration, and decentralization…