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Combining two hot tech trends in one product is bound to stir up interest, and the ICO of AI + blockchain startup SingularityNET was no exception. Its token, AGI, was sold at ten cents a piece in a token sale at the end of December. The company raised its goal of US$32,800 and the token is…
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Jarrod Dicker just left his executive job at The Washington Post to become CEO of a blockchain company. Dicker described his new employer, Po.et, as “a shared, open-source universal ledger designed to track ownership, attribution and the marketplace flow” of content. When I checked out the Po.et homepage, I was immediately reminded of Ted Nelson’s…
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Over the weekend Andreas Brekken published a lengthy post denouncing IOTA, which had previously received a lot of hype as a cryptocurrency for Internet of Things (IoT). Brekken, who named his blog Shitcoin, concluded that “IOTA cannot be used for Internet-of-Things devices. Or anything.” Damn. I’ll comment on Brekken’s analysis, but I also want to use this post…
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Narrative is a blockchain startup that is running a token sale in a week’s time. This one caught my eye for two reasons. Firstly, it’s building a content network on a blockchain – similar to the already established Steemit. Secondly, Narrative just announced it has switched platforms. Previously it was planning to build on top…
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Augur is a good way to begin my ongoing series of blockchain startup profiles, because this project started well before the ICO craze of 2017. Indeed, it was one of the first independent Ethereum projects to get off the ground. Augur is a prediction market tool built on the Ethereum blockchain. It was founded in 2014, with the goal…
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