Christian's Take Has Facebook’s data breach caused ad executives to find alternative avenues to reach their intended masses? Christian Ferri, president and CEO of Geer, believes blockchain technology has an answer. Ferri believes blockchain technology will allow...
The properties of blockchain, like immutability and being a distributed network, makes it an attractive underlying platform for future innovations. It might be too early to say, but blockchain might prove to be a technology as disrupting as the internet was. The...
Has Facebook’s data breach caused ad executives to find alternative avenues to reach their intended masses? Christian Ferri, president and CEO of BlockStar, believes blockchain technology has an answer. Ferri believes blockchain technology will allow consumers and...
Hacking will cool off the hype for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and other cryptocurrencies in the short-run, but in the long-run, it will make them stronger. Hacking of cryptocurrency exchanges has always been a scary thing for cryptocurrency investors. It sounds like a run...
What if there was a way to drastically improve the likelihood that breast cancer could be detected early? Mammograms are a good start, but even regular mammograms are far from a guarantee. Their false negative rate is alarmingly high; doctors only detect cancer 80...
This past month has brought me on an unexpected journey — into the world of blockchain. I'd known from the outset back in July when I was introduced to a merry band of sustainability gurus that blockchain would play an important role in the fashioning of a...
I’ve been advising companies and ICOs for years and as a result of that experience I’ve developed a pretty good sense for what makes for a successful ICO-funded project (as well as what doesn’t). Here is a list of what I personally look for when investing in ICOs:...
On November 30, 2017, I had the great pleasure of participating in a panel discussion with representatives from the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission at an event sponsored by Blockchain at Berkeley (https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/). This was the first time...