We've published a free eBook that you can download here, explaining what smart contracts are. It covers the purpose of smart contracts, gives an understandable yet technical overview of how they work, and explains some of the pitfalls and risks associated with them. Enjoy and share!
Link to Teosto's announcement. Earlier this year the Finnish collective management organization Teosto, which represents the interests of thousands of Finnish composers and music writers, engaged Chainfrog to implement a proof-of-concept blockchain-backed collective rights management system for Teosto Futures Labs in Q1 2017. An announcement was made by Teosto on 29 May, and the system is [...]
I’ve worked in quite a few companies, and I’ve often been frustrated by their attitude to hierarchy. Business culture is very male, so it always seems to become a very status-based culture. The guy at the top is treated like royalty, the people at the bottom are treated as replaceable units. Only one place I [...]
Sometimes the simplest ideas have the profoundest influence on the way humanity progresses. This may sound like a peculiar way to start a post about blockchain, which is currently seen as a complicated and convoluted invention that it's hard to get your head around. But it's not the esoteric mix of cryptography, game theory and [...]
We held the first Chainfrog social outing on Friday 24 February. It's been almost 6 months since Kimmo and I met to discuss the possibility of setting up a blockchain company. He didn't know what the concept of "blockchain" was all about, and to be honest I didn't know what the concept of "company" was [...]
I will be the first speaker at a blockchain event in Helsinki on 22 March 2017, called "Blockchain – tulevaisuuden digiloikka", which I think means "Blockchain - the digital leap of the future". Fortunately I'm allowed to present in English. I'll be explaining what blockchains can do, and when or even if you should use [...]
Back in early January, on the 11th to be precise, we got to spend more time at the Leonidas offices in central Tampere. This time it was in the evening, to present an "after-work" session to 25 interested people who had registered back in December. As it turns out, this was the first ever "after [...]
A short while ago I was asked to comment on the potential for using blockchain in issuing a Universal Basic Income. Finland is about to start an experiment in which some citizens are going to get 560 EUR a month, to see if it would actually work. The potential for reducing government administration overheads is [...]
To be honest, when I signed up for the TDF conference in Oulu, I was in two minds whether I made the right decision. Fortunately the event was easily worth a long train journey, a short night in a hotel, and then another long train journey back home. There were a lot of very good [...]
Chainfrog is attenting the Technology Disrupting Finance conference in Oulu today. Within seconds of arriving at the venue we already met Pekka Leviäkangas, a principal scientist at VTT, who we have been working with in the generation of a proposal for an EU funded project for the last couple of months. Later today I'll be [...]