Blockchain Startups and Projects in Alignment with the United Nations SDGs (Part 1)
Blockchain driven projects are starting to take off in both institutional and private organisations. The technology behind the Bitcoin is seen as a faster and safer way to reach those who are most in need and, at the same time, with the highest accuracy. First of all, the important thing here is not the Blockchain […]
Race Is On To Use Blockchains To Improve Banking
Will traditional banks introduce their own, closed blockchains, or will people opt for blockchain-based apps that cut out the middlemen? Banks are exploring how Blockchain technology can help them to provide services more efficiently and at lower cost, it is reported. Commentators say that while the technology offers them an opportunity to respond to competition […]
Blockchains and Pharmacies: a New Way of Leveraging Medication Adherence
Non-adherence to a treatment is becoming an important public health issue. This bad behavior is accountable for 125,000 deaths in the U.S. alone and costs the country $300B each year. There are multiple reasons that explain why patients do not take their treatment correctly. It can be that they stop as soon as they feel […]
The Economics of Blockchain Protocols
It is expected that more than one hundred cryptocurrencies will be in the market by the third quarter of this year. Under this scenario and after the speculative phase of cryptocurrency trade that we are currently witnessing, experts figures that a sobering will follow and a great portion of current protocols and currencies shall be […]
Blockchain and Social Impact Through Everex and Humaniq
Blockchain technology was since its very beginning back in the late 70s an alternative way of digital communication focused on privacy and data protection. Working together through Peer-To-Peer connections, blockchain safety concerns have been its most value distinctive throughout the years. Even if blockchain is not something new, it is now when small businesses and […]
Enhancing the Economy ‘Block After Block’
There is a way of doing business that doesn’t need anything else rather than a computer and a good internet connection. A new model where all participants build relations and communicate through “blocks” whereas they are all connected by chains. Roughly explanation of a much complex world known by the Blockchain technology. The blockchain was […]
Blockchain Boosts the P2P Economy
Users have become the main characters in the new technological-based economic wave. Customers and sellers exchange their roles due to their transaction necessities. Connectivity and new technologies make global transactions easy and accessible. Indeed, in the digital world, deals are quicker, easier and fairer as long as all parts keep connected to each other. Welcome […]
The Future of Exchanges Speaks in ‘Blockchain’ Language
It can be said without much hesitation that the current exchange system needs a change, a boost that satisfies new trade necessities. There is a technology supporting a new model that just needs a little push to start working. We are talking about Blockchain technology and how it can begin a revolution in the old exchange schemes. […]
The ICO Phenomenon is Hitting Healthcare
ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), a new form of fundraising using digital tokens, have become increasingly popular in the blockchain and crypto spheres. New tokens appear on exchanges each month and numerous startups are planning their own ICO. In June 2016 alone, over $600 million were raised by 36 companies, exceeding for the first time venture […]
Blockchain And Mobile Apps Can Bring Health Insurance To Developing Countries
In developing countries, access to healthcare is often limited by financial constraints. Individuals often have to pay out of their pocket even for very serious diseases that require hospitalization and heavy treatments. This system leads to impoverishment in already poor economies. However, health problems don’t only contribute to impoverishment because of the cost of the […]
Why Building Trust Is Key To Universal Access To Banking
Progress towards an ambitious global target to open the opportunity of the 21st Century economy by widening access to electronic transactions to everybody has been made. But evidence suggests much more work is needed to fully engage the 2bn people without access to a financial account to both access and use financial services. The World […]
Why Blockchain is a Game Changer for the Health Industry
In 2017, blockchain will change healthcare. Although this might seem like a bold statement, the facts show that this years could mark a turning point in the sector’s history. Blockchain, ICOs, AI. Healthcare is taking a step into the future Lately, in the blockchain and crypto-currency world, everyone’s attention has been caught by the ICO […]
The New Future Of Work: Flexible But Also Equitable?
The platform-based gig economy opens up opportunities but has been accused of not involving or fully recognising workers. Positive platforms show a path to a different future, according to a new repor. It treats people like “expendable cogs,” with “no rights,” and “dulls wages,” is what a selection of headlines say about the gig economy, […]
Unicef Joins Up With Ethereum to Level The Trust of Its Transactions
Blockchain transparency and peer-to-peer Ethereum systems is showing off once again its utility joining forces with UNICEF in a so-called ‘smart contract’ establishment. With it, the UN’s principal aim hopes to tackle the interference of mediators which hinder international transactions to those in the need of help, specially aiming to lower the “cost of trust” […]
Interview With Kumar Gaurav , Founder of Fin-Tech Company CASHAA
Humaniq faces had the pleasure to interview Kumar Gaurav. Kumar is a serial entrepreneur who has been responsible for building some of the today’s most exciting fin-tech business. He is considered to be one of the 100 most influential people in the world who are leading the evolution of Blockchain. Kumar is the Chairman of […]
The New Startup Paradigm
Startups are innovative companies, through which younger generations of entrepreneurs access capital and then reach the market in this new economic era. For the past ten years startups have taken over the new entrepreneurship field. Through technology and following breakthrough dogmas as the Sharing Economy model or the Blockchain system, these new companies compete against old-dinosaur multinationals based in centralized […]
What Blockchain Means For The Sharing Economy
One of the biggest commonalities between big businesses that have emerged in the last decade or so, such as Facebook and Airbnb, is the fact that they depend entirely on user content to develop platform value. This is very different than the business models of the past where customers were somewhat passive creatures. Today’s consumers […]
Blockchain And World Poverty
One of the questions frequently under discussion at the current time, is to what degree blockchain could assist, if at all, in alleviating world poverty. As Michael Casey, writing for Techonomy points out, it is estimated that as many as five billion people do not have adequate records. This lack of documentation causes no end […]
Are Platform Coops The Answer After Uber Missteps?
Uber has not had the best time of things, not least because it has made some bad decisions about its activities. At least, this is a view portrayed by Neal Gorenflo of Shareable recently. Uber has had a lot of backing from many investors, but according to Gorenflo, “Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful people […]
How Blockchain Can Impact Positively Emergent Economies
Managing money in the developed world is simpler than in the developing world. Here, we can easily find ways to save money and spend money, and there are various ways of sending money to others, such as PayPal. This has led to a lot of people in the developed world not really seeing the point […]
Cryptocurrency Mining Reviewed
Since the early days of bitcoin there has been a good deal of change in the industry, and particularly with regard to the mining of cryptocurrencies. As Ken Addison reports, writing about developments with bitcoin and blockchain for PC Perspective, much has changed since 2011. Back in 2011 it was possible to mine bitcoin using […]
How Far Will Blockchain Technology Go?
Bitcoin has been a transformational technological development that has been observed in recent years, yet blockchain could be of even greater value, going forward. What will the future reserve for Blockchain? According to Raj Kosaraju of icrunchdata blockchain technology has a long way to go yet, with plenty of likely advances forthcoming. This is because […]
Five Ways Blockchain Can Transform the World Around Us
Blockchain could bring about big change in the world around us. That could happen as soon as this very year, at least, so argues Nesta. Nesta is an innovation foundation from the UK, that researches and fosters new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time. The foundation also organizes the annual festival Futurefest, that […]
How Blockchain Can Make Identification Borderless and Immutable
Many people around the world are termed “unbanked”. BanQu suggests that the number of these people is likely to be as high as 2.7 billion. For these people there may now be a better solution to identification delivered through blockchain technology and borderless in nature. This would eliminate significant problems for many. Writing for Singularity […]
