At Future:NET 2018, Ed Horley got to hear a session on how blockchain technology could impact enterprise networks. Despite hype around financial applications, Ed looks how how blockchain could be used for microtransactions between unknown parties, virtualized network functions, and IoT trust models. Blockchain has many more applications beyond cryptocurrency, and Future:NET 2018 showed the possible network implications.
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Gestalt IT Rundown, December 20, 2017
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what the biggest stories of 2017 were, and how they will effect IT in the New Year.
Failing Startups, Dying Private Clouds, and more in Gestalt Cloud News 17.9
In this iteration of Gestalt Cloud News:
– The Gestalt IT Rundown discusses AWS re:Invent announcements
– Chris Evans discusses the potential death of the private cloud
– We interview Eyvonne Sharp for our IT Origins series
Blockchain and the UN
Blockchain is about verification. Ray Lucchesi recently shared how the IXO Foundation is applying the technology to the UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
Coinhive and the Audacity of Blockchain
Coinhive has been in the news recently, being used by The Pirate Bay and Showtime. The company provides a JavaScript crytocurrency miner that uses the idle CPU of anyone visiting a given web page. Can this provide an ad free path to monetization?