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Toshendra Kumar Sharma

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What is Hard Fork & Segwit2X?

The Segwit2x fork which was expected to take effect this week was going to be the final in a series of hard forks which have caused a lot of infighting in the bitcoin community over the last three years around the optimum scaling strategy for Bitcoin. Please note that Segwit2x fork has been…

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Blockchain Use Cases for Insurance Companies

The use cases address improvements in blockchain and therefore insurance company’s operational functions as well as dealings with providers, intermediaries, and policyholders, thereby improving the customer experience, enhancing product value, and laying the groundwork for greater consumer choice…

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Blockchain use cases for Finance Industry & FinTech Players

The blockchain technology developed as the technology underlying Bitcoin in the world of internet, blockchain has quickly climbed to fame for its identity to create a major hype in the world of E-currency. This is a globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, capable of recording…

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Blockchain Use Cases For Healthcare Industry

The Blockchain technology has made a serious impact and brought out initiatives to the financial technology industry. This initiative has helped to inspire the health industry with some great potentiality apps. The stakeholders of the healthcare industry are motivated and eager from the set of…

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Blockchain Use Cases For Telecom Industry

Telecom industry today has the most complex operations framework, involving many partners, vendors, customers, distributors, network providers, VAS providers. There are a lot of trust issues and transparency challenges due to the involvement of multiple entities. Also, there are no clear mechanism…

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What Are Crypto Tokens & How Crypto Tokens Work?

Crypto tokens are a new way to design open networks that arose from the cryptocurrency movement that began with the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008 and accelerated with the introduction of Ethereum in 2014. Crypto Tokens are created over an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). What Are Crypto Tokens &…

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
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DAO

  DAO is the organizations running in the software in a fully democratic way. Before we jump into how exactly they work, we need to go through the tradition organization structure quickly. What is Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) & How DAO works? from Blockchain Council An…

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What Is Crowdsale Or Crowdfunding In Blockchain & How It Works?

The Blockchain technology can be readily implemented into the crowdfunding industry segment to automate most of the processes. What Is Crowdsale Or Crowdfunding In Blockchain & How It Works? from Blockchain Council What is Crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is a process of raising funds for a project…

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What Is Initial Coin Offering & How It Works?

The drive to discover alternate ways for a new company to raise money, but none more prominent than the 2017 rise of so-called Initial Coin Offering, or ICO. What is Initial Coin Offering & How it works? from Blockchain Council The decades-old, tried-and-true way for a technology company to…

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Blockchain FAQs – Most Frequently Asked Questions in Blockchain

These are few frequently asked questions in blockchain. Blockchain FAQs – Most Frequently Asked Questions in Blockchain from Blockchain Council What Is Blockchain? Blockchain is the core technology behind bitcoin. At its heart is a distributed data store. Anyone who participates in this…

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Blockchain Glossary – Most Used Terms in Blockchain

Having a blockchain glossary will help you understand the terminology which is used in the blockchain environment. As with any developi9ng sector or sub-sector, an understanding of the keywords and key phrases is essential. Blockchain Glossary – Most Used Terms in Blockchain from Blockchain…

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How Blockchain Can Be Used In Trade Finance & How It Works?

Though financial institutions and technology companies have experimented with trade finance for years, it has a slow progress. Despite automation advances in many areas of financial services, trade finance remains a largely paper-based, manual process. But it could be one area where blockchain…