Whether through the news, from excited computer-savvy friends, or over a family dinner, you may have heard of such cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin or Ethereum. These electronic financial currencies have ...

Susan Alman and Sandra Hirsh—like many people—couldn’t avoid news about blockchain in 2017. But it wasn’t all about Bitcoin. “There were interesting applications across numerous industries that piqued ...

What if someone told you that the future direction of the Internet is about to be influenced not by Palo Alto, Beijing, or the multi-stakeholder groups of the United Nations, but by an ancient library ...

The U.S. government has awarded a $100,000 grant to a group of researchers looking to apply blockchain to public library systems. The work being conducted isn't exactly technical, however – rather, ...

A blockchain is a kind of database invented in 2008 that stores and secures information in sequential blocks. Unlike the case with traditional databases, a blockchain’s contents are not kept on a ...

Cathy Mulligan is Visiting Researcher, Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering; Member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation; ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Nicosia. Sustainability is no longer optional; it is a regulatory ...