Predictoor – Decentralized Prediction Feeds
Trent McConaghy is an AI and blockchain expert and the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data marketplace. Ocean’s newest product is Predictoor, a decentralized prediction feed platform.
Deus ex Machina: Züs Arrives to Solve Web3’s Big Data Problem with the Future of Decentralized Storage
dStorage leader 0Chain becomes Züs, offering lightning fast solutions for DeFi NFTs, and the Future of Web3
ASK Permission – How to monetize your data
Charlie Silver is the founder and CEO of Permission, a crypto startup that gives individuals a way to monetize their data and get paid in ASK, the crypto asset that powers the Permission ecosystem.
Unlocking the ocean of data around Facebook and Google
Only a handful of companies have both the access to big data and the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities to utilize it. This has created an inequality chasm between the data-haves and data have-nots and an oligopoly in big data.
We need to talk about autonomous vehicles and the blockchain
The momentum behind the autonomous vehicle movement has been growing rapidly as the major technology vendors, and new players, seek to define the future of road transport. Given the volume of potential data and the critical nature of automated transport it will be essential to get cybersecurity policies, tools and responses right. It should be no surprise that many in the automaker community believe the blockchain is the answer.
InvestFeed signs deal with BNC as preferred market data vendor
investFeed is a social networking and market access platform. Initially developed for traditional financial markets, the company has recently pivoted to focus on servicing the crypto sector and has selected BNC as its market data provider.
Chinas banking sector: Performance of listed banks and hot topics
This issue focuses on big data used to promote the transformation of banking outlets; how to build a data mart for banking credit risk from the basics; the interpretation of the implications of Circular No.42 on banking business; the discussion and analysis of the accounting treatment of the business of investment-loan linkage of banks; and the implications of blockchain technology on commercial banks and proposed countermeasures. These topics are receiving more and more attention in the banking industry, and we hope that our discussion will help our readers gain a firmer understanding. Furthermore, this issue provides an overview of the financial position and performance of listed banks in the third quarter of 2016, which will allow readers to better understand the overall performance of the sector.
Blockchains for Big Data
Big data arose in the early and mid 2000s to meet internet-scale computation needs: ZooKeeper at Yahoo, BigTable and MapReduce at Google, Cassandra at Facebook; and so on. Then came open source projects like Hadoop File System (HDFS), Hadoop MapReduce, Cassandra, and more.
BNC launches finance data Oracles, to expand the usefulness of smart-contracts
Smart contracts are an exciting new frontier for technology, business, and law that have the potential to usher in a wave of innovation, and serve as a building block for the next chapter of the internet.
Bitcoin’s best funded startup offers marketplace for user collected data
21 Inc. is a privately-held bitcoin hardware company that launched in May 2015, having raised over $121 million in venture capital, more than any other company in the bitcoin space to date. The company's stated goal is “putting a bitcoin miner in every device and in every hand.” The team has also been busy creating a [tutorial library](http://21.co/learn) on their website recently, teaching not only how to use their hardware and software products, but how to use them to earn an income.
Backing Australian FinTech
At the recent World Economic Forum it was noted that 90 per cent of the data we use today has been created in the past two years. The ability of new technology to capture and process big data is changing how we do business and the way consumers use products and services.
Provable market data – bitcoin liquid index now on the blockchain
In a first-of-its-kind, Bitcoin Price Index is being stored on the Blockchain. By securing any market feed onto the bitcoin blockchain, Brave New Coin and Smartbit hope to revolutionize markets in several important ways.
UK to lead on big data research,says Harriett Baldwin
£42 million will be invested in research, the Economic Secretary said in a speech to the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science.
Factom Ledger by Consensus
This paper goes over the architecture of Factom,and describes how its components fit together. We discuss a set of attacks,and demonstrate that as long as more than half of the participants are honest,and run the protocol as defined,Factom will perform as needed. Performance slows with increased dishonesty among system actors,however. As actors fail to perform,they are replaced with new actors.
The Blockchain is the New Database, Get Ready to Rewrite Everything
Bitcoin's Blockchain Concept represents a paradigm shift in how software engineers will write software applications in the future. The Blockchain can be viewed as a database, representing a rethink of how we interact with data.
Business Processes Secured by Immutable Audit Trails on the Blockchain
In this paper,we describe how Factom creates a distributed,autonomous protocol to cost effectively separate the Bitcoin blockchain from the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. We discuss client- defined Chains of Entries,client-side validation of Entries,a distributed consensus algorithm for recording Entries,and a blockchain anchoring approach for security.
