Vitalik “Tweetstorm” Promotes Non-Financial Applications Of Blockchains
Applications of blockchain technology apply to a wide array of use cases other than financial applications such as supply chain management, healthcare and identity management just to name a few. Touching on this matter, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder and figurehead of Ethereum recently went on a tweetstorm on the non-financial applications of blockchains. Read more
Rich Communication Services RCS
Verizon urges FCC to include RCS in declaratory ruling for SMS, MMS. While wireless operators generally and wholeheartedly support the FCC’s decision to classify SMS and MMS as “information services” rather than “telecommunications services” or “commercial mobile services,” Verizon is urging the commission to go a step further and include Rich Communication Services (RCS) as well. Read
Is blockchain a movement?
"We make the net work” used to be a slogan of Sun Microsystems. Repeated many times by its then visionary and fearless leader Scott McNealy, it placed the emphasis on the Internet and how their servers are powering the backbone of it. Sun combined with their Java fueled the internet from both hardware and software
Blockchain, a communication channel
When McLuhan wrote the lines “Medium is the message”, almost all of the communication mediums (newspaper, radio) were unidirectional. Messages were pushed out and listened to by the intended audiences. Measuring the quality and quantity of the reach was mostly guesswork whereas getting feedback for the pushed message was near impossible. Till internet gave birth