Soumak Chatterjee (@soumakchatterjee) | Exponentials

Blockchain - Apr 12, 2016

The concept is a bit obtuse but once you get your head around the breadth of P2P interactions a Blockchain can support the possibilities are limitless. The P2P energy exchange story below is a simple use-case but in this sharing economy today this kind of interchange can create complete new business models and social behaviours...mind boggling!

Ethereum Used for ‘First’ Paid Energy Trade Using Blockchain Tech - CoinDesk

The Ethereum blockchain is being used by Transactive Grid to log energy created by solar panels so that it can be sold to neighbors connected to the grid.

coindesk - Michael del Castillo

#blockchainp2p

Soumak Chatterjee

Blockchain - Mar 28, 2016

Good summary of Digital Identity, a domain fast emerging as one of the hotbeds of Blockchain innovation.

12 Companies Leveraging Blockchain for Identification and Authentication

Increasing data breaches, illegal hacking and identity theft cases are raising the demand of the fraud and authentication industry. No entity seems to be immune – from small banks to

let's talk payments

#digitalidentity

Soumak Chatterjee

Blockchain - Mar 25, 2016

After the June 2015 mega-trends report, the WEF is investigating Blockchain and Digital Identity as two specific disruption themes. Interesting sobering stance on the time is will take Blockchain to reach mainstream adoption...although I believe in some domains the impact will be far earlier, I get what McWaters is cautioning the industry against. #goodread "It’s wonderful to see the awakening, but we need to see that this excitement is tempered by patience and that taking the tech from pilots to full-scale implementation will be measured not in months and not in years, but maybe decades."

World Economic Forum Gears Up for Hands-On Blockchain Research in 2016

CoinDesk profiles the World Economic Foundation and its ongoing blockchain technology research.

coindesk - Pete Rizzo

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Soumak Chatterjee

Blockchain - Mar 22, 2016

Of all the innovators investing time to grow the Bitcoin community, Elliptic is interesting given their focus on making it easier for compliance teams to identify patterns of irregular activity on the bitcoin Blockchain, allowing law enforcement to peel back a layer of the pseudonymous digital currency. While transparency and removing anonymity of bitcoin transactions is not their stated goal, advanced forensics capability in the bitcoin space might push the currency towards adoption. And of course, they intend to start focusing on other no-bitcoin blockchains with the newly raised capital.

Elliptic takes in $5M for its blockchain forensics tool |…

UK fintech startup Elliptic has pulled in a $5 million Series A round to keep building out its blockchain forensics tool. Its transaction-tracing technology mines the public Bitcoin ledger to identify and flag up suspicious transaction patterns within the distributed digital currency — offering the promise of combating Bitcoin-powered money laundering and other criminal activity.

techcrunch - Natasha Lomas

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Soumak Chatterjee

Mar 12, 2016

A lot of the world around us doesn't know how to play Go, which is probably why this has been getting much less mainstream traction that what Watson got when it triumphed in jeopardy. I don't know how difficult Go is, but popular opinion suggests it's multiples more difficult and a holy grail of sorts....now that DeepMind has defeated a Go legend (18 time world champion), looking forward to where Google is going with this...!

Google’s AI Is Now Reigning Go Champion of the World

It’s a pretty big moment for artificial intelligence.

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