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Norway and Sweden's cheap energy is luring cryptocurrency miners
Cheap renewable energy could be the answer to cryptocurrency's large usage.
Blockchain
These 11 questions will help you decide if blockchain is right for your business
Blockchain is an innovative solution, but it is not the solution to all problems.
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How secure is blockchain?
Blockchain is transforming the way we do business, and has the potential to reduce poverty throughout the developing world. But can it simultaneously offer trust and privacy to ensure pri...
Blockchain
Blockchain can solve some of the world's most pressing challenges. Here's how
A new report highlights how blockchain is helping non-profit organisations to grow.
Blockchain
Blockchain is facing a backlash. Can it survive?
As more people question the political, security and environmental implications of blockchain and digital currency, its future may depend on a new wave of projects designed to make a posit...
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Powerful predictions for the future from a leading physicist
After 25 years as a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, Michio Kaku has a unique perspective on the future.
Education, Gender and Work
This is how new technologies could improve education forever
New technology has the capacity to revolutionize education, but only if we let it.
Blockchain
How Blockchain could boost the economic power of the LGBT community
Blockchain could allow the LGBT community to fundraise and become a major economic power.
Emerging Technologies
Is new technology hurting our productivity?
To take advantage businesses, buildings, and infrastructure will need to be re-configured - and we'll have to stop getting distracted at work.
Illicit Economy
Christine Lagarde: The peril of cryptocurrencies
The Managing Director of the IMF discusses how we can make cryptocurrencies more transparent.
Blockchain
This US city is the first to ban the mining of cryptocurrencies
The city of Plattsburgh will ban any commercial mining for cryptocurrency for 18 months.
Blockchain
This is how cryptocurrencies challenge the status quo
In order to assess the pros and cons of cryptocurrencies, we need to have an open discussion about their place in economics.
Blockchain
Google is banning online ads promoting cryptocurrencies
In a crackdown on high-risk financial marketing, the world's search engine is getting rid of all promotions for cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain
The world’s first blockchain-powered elections have just happened in Sierra Leone
And the foundation behind it wants to spread it to other African countries.
Blockchain
Can blockchain help in the fight against corruption?
For all its uncertainties and risks, blockchain could add a layer of security to records and transactions that are particularly exposed to high corruption risks. The time to experiment is...