During Facebook’s connect 2021 keynote presentation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented the name “Meta” as a new corporate identity. This new identity provides Facebook its new “North Star” to help bring the metaverse to life. If you want to know more about the Metaverse, check my post about the Metaverse.
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In a previous post, I discussed a framework that can be used to link the key financial processes in a business with Fintech solutions.
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During one of the webinars I was following about Business Intelligence, the name “Power Apps” appeared. It was only mentioned very briefly but it piqued my interest because I never heard about Power Apps before. I decided to do some research myself to get a grasp of the basics. Personally, my first “hunch” was that Power Apps was closely tied to the creation of automatic solutions in the administrative/financial environment of an enterprise. So let’s see if my assumption was correct.
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The latest Bitcoin update was the Segregated Witness (SegWit) soft fork update in 2017. This eventually ended in a split in the Bitcoin community and to an undesirable hard fork that created Bitcoin Cash.
In November 2021 Bitcoin will undergo a significant soft fork upgrade. In contrast to the SegWit update, this update has the full support of the Bitcoin community and the risk of an unexpected hard fork like the one in 2017 is negligible.
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Fintech is the application of new technological advancements to products and services in the financial industry. Fintech can be immediately linked to banks, blockchain, stock trading, insurances, and hedge funds but it can also be applied to technological advancements of corporate information systems about their financial processes.
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Today (12 September 2021) is a big day for Cardano because the Alonzo hard fork upgrade will finally bring smart contracts and NFT support to this third-largest blockchain. This upgrade means that Cardano will finally be able to compete with Ethereum because of the added functionalities.
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After my previous post about the history of bitcoin and the Bitcoin blockchain, I wanted to get a better understanding of how bitcoin and the Bitcoin blockchain work and to share this with you. Please note that I purposely distinguish between bitcoin and Bitcoin. The reason I do this is that bitcoin refers to the cryptocurrency “bitcoin” and Bitcoin refers to the software that facilitates the transfer and safekeeping of bitcoin, the currency. In this post, I take bitcoin and the Bitcoin blockchain as an example but the main concept works the same for every blockchain of any cryptocurrency.
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