Last year, I spent some time in Jakarta visiting HARA, an AWS customer. They've created a way to connect small farms in developing nations to banks and distributors of goods, like seeds, fertilizer, ...

The video above from the Late Night With Seth Myers show does a pretty good job of breaking down the mind-bendingly weird world of Bitcoin (in hilarious fashion), which has been gaining of late in ...

First there was Bitcoin, friend of criminals, speculators and tech geeks everywhere. It’s grown amazingly. Then there were alternatives to Bitcoin, often sharing much of the same code, but with ...

Blockchain has rapidly gained popularity because of its ability to store transactions in an immutable format, and Amazon makes it really easy to create your own Blockchain ledger within the AWS ...

Blockchain is a decentralized, digital database that stores transactions and other forms of data. Key blockchain features include immutable records, distributed ledger security, and smart contracts.

What Is a Distributed Ledger? Blockchain has gotten a lot of attention recently thanks largely to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but distributed ledgers have not received the same level of focus.

Amazon last year dismissed the idea of getting into the blockchain with AWS, but today that’s changed. The company announced a new service called Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, or QLDB, which is a ...

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Editor’s note: This article was updated on Sept. 29 to correct Jordan Fried’s role in the Hedera Hashgraph (CCC:HBAR-USD) distributed ledger network. Jordan Fried wants to put the power of the ...