Tag Archives: blockchain

8 fintech trends for 2018

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] AI, blockchain, payment regionalization, and other fintech trends to watch. 2017 saw big changes, a lot of investment, and some regulatory challenges in fintech. What will 2018 bring? Here’s what we’ll be watching in the coming year. 1. AI will be implemented across the stackContinue reading “8 fintech trends for 2018”

Clustering bitcoin accounts using heuristics

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Editor’s note: we’ll explore present and future applications of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies at our upcoming Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain on Jan. 27, 2015, in San Francisco. A few data scientists are starting to play around with cryptocurrency data, and as bitcoinContinue reading “Clustering bitcoin accounts using heuristics”

Regulation and decentralization: Defending the blockchain

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Editor’s note: our O’Reilly Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain will take place on January 17, 2015, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Andreas Antonopoulos, Vitalik Buterin, Naval Ravikant, and Bill Janeway are but a few of the confirmed speakers for the event. LearnContinue reading “Regulation and decentralization: Defending the blockchain”

Bitcoin and the Future of Money

I’ll be a hosting a free webcast featuring Andreas Antonopoulos this Wednesday. Author of the new book Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas has emerged as one of the most popular & eloquent proponents of cryptocurrencies and related technologies: Bitcoin technology is taking the world of finance by storm. Bitcoin and the blockchain technology that is at itsContinue reading “Bitcoin and the Future of Money”

Decoding bitcoin and the blockchain

[A version of this post originally appeared on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] When the creators of bitcoin solved the “double spend” problem in a decentralized manner, they introduced techniques that have implications far beyond digital currency. Our newly announced one-day event — Bitcoin & the Blockchain: An O’Reilly Radar Summit — is in line withContinue reading “Decoding bitcoin and the blockchain”