With the intention of learning the ins and outs of the music industry, I began my work at Epic Records at Sony Music Entertainment in December 2014, just after it was hacked and confidential data from the film studio at Sony Pictures was leaked. The hackers claimed to have…
The DAO has given the world a glimpse into the promise of general purpose blockchains. A headless investment fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars sounds crazy to most people and wasn’t even possible a year ago. Despite the catastrophic flaw in The DAO, which eventually led to a hard fork, it…
In a short time Ethereum has turned into the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of $1B and thousands of nodes around the world running its code. Developers and companies in a number of industries are exploring its potential to improve existing…
I am as guilty as anybody at enjoying the Ether price rise. I returned to this field, my second love really (after VR). Crypto…
Boardroom is an Ethereum-based blockchain governance tool, an invention by Nick Dodson. As with any design, our governance codebases need to be used and tested before they can be called reliable. On Thursday July 14th at 5pm EST, we ran a live experiment with Boardroom on the…
By 1975, hardware developments enabled cost reductions that brought cryptographic devices to remote cash dispensers and computer terminals, standardizing cryptographic systems in a way that required innovation. Because existing hardware…