Trust people, not companies
So, as people come to trust institutions less and peers more; the pitch could be: trust people, not Big Tech. Or trust people, not companies. Blockchains are a part of a much bigger social movement, the changing nature of trust.
London Blockchain Firms Raise over $500 Million in Equity Funding since 2013
Analysis of global startup hubs has revealed that London may be one of the most preferred hubs for blockchain start-ups to headquarter themselves.
Thick Clients, No Servers aka Web3
The logical extension of “Thick Clients, Thin Servers” is non-existent servers. Go full peer-to-peer.
Base Camp Application Guide
Outlier Ventures opens applications for the Base Camp accelerator programs twice a year per city in various locations. After the success in London, we are expanding to Berlin!
Cross-Enterprise Collaborative Analytics with Enigma
Homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation have long been heralded as the advent of privacy-preserving outsourced compute, however, for practical applications, these technologies have been in research limbo since the 1970s. Leveraging a new technology from Intel chipsets known as SGX, Enigma has created a practical implementation of private compute in the Rust programming language. Rust, […]
18 Predictions for 2020
Over 11 years since the creation of Bitcoin, 2020 will be the year we follow the S-Curve of technology diffusion out of the period of Installation and into Deployment, where we see ‘synergy’ and ‘consolidation’ of the technology begin to take effect. Blockchain will finally grow up, with institutional money trickling into the market based on fundamentals – real traction and usage.