When a hash is worth a million words By now it’s clear that many blockchain use cases have nothing to do with financial transactions. Instead, the chain’s purpose is to enable the decentralized aggregation, ordering, timestamping and archiving of any type of information, including structured data, correspondence or documentation. The blockchain’s core value is enabling… Read more »
Posts By: Gideon Greenspan
R3 Corda: Deep dive and technical review
A detailed look at the non-blockchain blockchain As time goes on, the blockchain world has been separating into two distinct parts. On one hand, public blockchains with their associated cryptocurrencies have enjoyed a remarkable recent comeback, minting many a multi-millionaire. On the other hand, use of permissioned or enterprise blockchains has been growing quietly but… Read more »
Second MultiChain 2.0 preview release
Per-asset permissions, capacity upgrading and inline metadata Today we’re pleased to unveil the second preview release of MultiChain 2.0. This makes substantial progress on the MultiChain 2.0 roadmap, and includes an important extra feature relating to asset permissions.
Three (non-pointless) permissioned blockchains in production
Solving real problems in infrastructure, finance and e-commerce It’s exactly two years since we published “Avoiding the pointless blockchain project“, a checklist of questions to ask when assessing permissioned blockchain use cases. The post obviously struck a nerve and continues to attract thousands of monthly readers on our site and others. People are still hungry… Read more »
First MultiChain 2.0 preview release
Taking MultiChain streams to a whole new level Today we’re delighted to share the first preview release of MultiChain 2.0, which implements one major part of the MultiChain 2.0 roadmap published earlier this year – a richer data model for streams.
MultiChain 1.0 released with 14 new partners
One cycle ends, the next one begins Today we’re delighted to announce the release of MultiChain 1.0 into production and the addition of 14 new members to the MultiChain Partner Program. These include two multinational consulting companies: Cognizant and Indra Sistemas, as well as twelve other companies: Aicumen, Bambusoft, Chainfrog, CrimsonLogic, Encrypgen, Hypatia Technologies, Maroon… Read more »
A rational take on cryptocurrencies
What they are and what they’re not. Probably. Here at Coin Sciences, we’re best known for MultiChain, a popular platform for creating and deploying permissioned blockchains. But we began life in March 2014 in the cryptocurrency space, with the goal of developing a “bitcoin 2.0″ protocol called CoinSpark. CoinSpark leverages transaction metadata to add external… Read more »
MultiChain 1.0 beta 2 and 2.0 roadmap
Where we are today and where we’re going tomorrow Today we’re delighted to release the second beta of MultiChain 1.0 for Linux, Windows and Mac (for now the Mac version requires compilation). This concludes the planned development of MultiChain 1.0 – with the exception of any bug fixes, the final release of MultiChain 1.0 over… Read more »
The Blockchain Immutability Myth
Where flexible thinking is preferable to dogmatism “The highest good, than which there is no higher, is the blockchain, and consequently it is immutably good, hence truly eternal and truly immortal.”— Saint Augustine, De natura boni, i, 405 C.E. (with minor edits) If you ask someone well-informed about the characteristics of blockchains, the word “immutable”… Read more »
Video talk: Blockchains vs databases
Watch a video of a half hour talk given at the CityChain17 conference in London this month, organized by MBN Solutions. Below is a list of the topics covered, with links to more in-depth information in brackets: