China may ditch paper money

Blockchain, Bitcoin, paper money.   What say you China ?  They are on the road to eliminating paper money altogether ?  Sounds fierce.  Sounds like a good plan. Sounds meaningful. Sounds righteous. Sounds interesting.  But will China do it ? And when ?

Berry cool container electricity

This Container ship is powered by electricity only.  This is a step in the right direction if it works as planned.  Go future alternative energy shipping.  

Blockchain for web developers

I was always a better C++ programmer than a web developer...

Blockchain explained for web developers

Linux Edge Computing Framework for IOT gains members

A bunch of Companies join the linux foundation project's open IOT Edge computing Framework.   It's getting real now. 

united nations ethereum test

The United Nations just launched
its first large scale ethereum test

Open source autonomous cars

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/18/baidu-project-apollo/

Delaware blockchain corporate law

Many many companies already incorporate in Delaware already, so this could be interesting. 

http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/04/18/delaware-blockchain-friendly-corporate-law/

Cost benefit analysis of smart contracts.

"The aim of smart contracts is to deliver superior security than traditional legal contracts and to reduce the administrative and transactional costs involved in legal transactions. While smart contracts will most likely not universally replace traditional legal contracts in the near future, they can reduce the burden, time and complexity of writing new legal documents for each new transaction as smart contracts can automate this process to a large degree."

Good read.

https://btcmanager.com/a-cost-benefit-analysis-of-using-smart-contracts-in-banking/

Ukraine's fury into blockchain

Cool that Ukraine and bitfury are launching a full scale blockchain government pilot.  Bitfury is part of a Richard Branson Startup.