Bitcoin & Blockchain

Is Bitcoin quantum proof? With the anticipated (or more often imagined) rise of quantum computing, this is an often asked question. First of all, due to the yet-to-be-solved (perhaps even unsolvable) unscalable error correction problem and the peculiar algorithm of quantum computing, it is still unclear whether quantum computing will ever achieve scalable general computation....

Introduction Bitcoin was invented at the turn of the new century and made public on October 31, 2008 by Dr. Craig S. Wright (a.k.a., Satoshi Nakamoto), an Australian polymath. Wright was born in Brisbane, Australia to a family of both intellectual and public service (military) traditions. His maternal grandfather, Ronald Lynam, was a mysterious World...

The entire crypto space has gone astray and wasted over a decade of time and many billions of dollars to build on wrong blockchains and ineffective infrastructures, business models and the subsequent ecosystems. Many causes have contributed to the failure, but the unregulated crypto exchanges can easily rank among the top three reasons. Due to...

Let us think about the following two numbers: – The total size of the present global financial services industry is about $20 trillion. – The total size of the present global supply chain management industry is about $20 billion. The former is 1000 times that of the latter. This is a picture of the entire...