Hindsight is 20/20 and foresight is riddled with uncertainty. In 20 years time, I would expect that people will be writing about other types of revolutionary new technologies that will be addressing the biggest challenges of that era -- such as manufactured particle space clouds to reflect sunlight ... more

In 'Some' cases Hyperledger Fabric is the best choice.

Any Platforms' features and design is important to align with the use-case you are looking to fill. 

The use-case should use evaluated with subject matter experts to verify the Need and understand the opportunity.

The need must justify the ... more

"The blockchain" won't make "the supply chain more transparent for consumers" but there are blockchains that can be structured in such a way that the public can access supply chain information in a permissioned manner. The organizations building out the individual blockchain networks will have to ch... more

Thank you for your question. Yes. Our KYC works globally, except that we automatically decline any countries that specifically ban cryptocurrency (of which there are just a few currently). For the more difficult documents (i.e. tough for recognition software), our manual verification is completed wi... more

As people will be looking at the CREBACO report as a resource to know which exchanges are high quality and safe and which are not, there is a big responsibility in this choice.  To be globally relevant, the list needs to include the exchanges that have ease of access for citizens of countries a... more

With emerging technology such as blockchain you may need to keep the door open for a while, as the most value-added projects are still yet to come.  Value-add may be difficult to gauge for many early-stage projects.  It may be a good idea to monitor the progress of individuals (members) on... more

What kind of project are you looking to do?  Do you have any specifics? There are several use cases that can apply blockchain to agriculture.  

Identity Management

Consumer control of access to their data

Incentive lifecycle management

Not a bad idea.  But speaking fees are driven largely by celebrity/publications status more than anything else.  If they don't fall into one of those two categories then compensation may need to be reconsidered.  I recently chaired a conference for IEEE and we had some high profile sp... more

One of the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) technical committees (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41) which serves the Power Utility industry, are working to incorporate blockchain technology into IoT solutions, which could serve as the backbone for Smart Cities projects and others.  This work ... more