One of the great thinkers in the blockchain space is Brock Pierce. Although I started working with blockchain in 2013, I really started to grasp its potential after seeing this keynote by Brock Pierce in 2017. Here’s a fully searchable transcript, enriched with slides where I found that relevant. To improve your experience in navigating […]
Category Archives: Content Timestamps
Matt Mullenweg at CB Insights: “Open-source ‘eventually’ dominates every sector it enters.”
I have been a big fan of Matt Mullenweg’s work for more than a decade. In this fireside chat at CB Insights, at the end of 2017, he gives some great insight into WordPress (which he co-founded in 2003), Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com, which received a $300M investment from Salesforce in 2019, at a […]
Transcript: Facebook’s Dopamine-Driven Feedback Loops
Social media has not been a good friend to us. Here are transcripts with insightful quotes on how social media are exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. In the video, there are quotes by Sean Parker and Chamath Palihapitiya, both were former-executives at Facebook. I made a transcription of the full video, to make their […]
The Decade of Open-Source (2020-2030); Let’s Fix the Web, Together!
Roadmap for The Decade of Open-Source (2020 to 2030): Let’s Fix the Broken Web, Together! You made it; welcome to this fresh new decade! Looking back at 30 years of the internet, we should be proud. Mankind’s achievements are enormous. We have perfectly organized everything in the world, mostly user-friendly at the same time. With […]
4 Solutions to Fix the Broken Web
Utrecht, The Netherlands – Last Thursday, Blockchain Netherlands organized a meetup dedicated to blockchain timestamping. I presented our vision on how Content Timestamps have the ability to redefine the web as we know it while bringing back integrity. Let’s fix the web, together! Here’s a summary of my presentation, including four ways to fix the […]
Brendan Blumer on Timestamps
At London Fintech Week (Juli 26th, 2017), Brendan Blumer talked about timestamps during his presentation called Decentralized Funding and the New Corporate Structure. In five years from now, if you don’t timestamp your articles on the blockchain, you’re going to be considered a fraud. Brendan Blumer, CEO Block.One, 2017, London That quote played an important […]
Dan Larimer – How Blockchain is Evolving (Q&A)
Block.One’s Chief Technology Officer Dan Larimer discusses the future of blockchain at the 2019 Blocksburg Summit. After writing a full transcript of his keynote, here you’ll find the full transcript of the Q&A on how blockchain is evolving. Firstly, a table of content to make this extremely valuable collection of insights easier to navigate through: […]
Dan Larimer – Blockchain is about Integrity by Design
Why do we need blockchain? At Blocksburg Summit, Dan Larimer shared his higher purpose on how building with blockchain is committing to integrity by design. Here’s a transcript of his talk. Later I will add the Q&A he did after his talk. Special thanks to Everything EOS for providing a recording! Here’s a table of […]
Transcript: Brendan Blumer – What’s the future of Blockchain?
After watching this recent interview “What’s the future of Blockchain?” with Brendan Blumer five times, being amazed by all the inspirational quotes, I decided to write a full transcript of this interview. As Walt Disney would have said: “Celebrate progress, tomorrow is just a dream way”! Here’s a table of content: Bringing blockchain beyond high-value […]
An introduction: What is a Blockchain Content Timestamp?
The idea is fairly simple: create a unique and universal fingerprint for every piece of content, based on simple inputs such as a title, the content itself and the date. This results in a unique fingerprint, let’s call it a hash. If one of the inputs changes, then the hash changes. That’s it! Some say it’s an ISBN for […]