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BlockChain: Analysts in Agreement That it’s Too Early for BlockChain

By Dick Weisinger

More than 60 percent of organizations with more than 20,000 employees have on-going projects that are investigating possible uses of blockchain technology, according to Juniper Research.  While the potential of blockchain reality does seem real, it’s taking much longer to

Blockchain: Everybody’s Talking, but Adoption’s Still Tepid

By Dick Weisinger

Has Blockchain stalled?  Performance is slow and adoption has been relatively tepid. Christian Catalini, As MIT professor, said that “some of these platforms are developed to be kind of replicas of the old system, where the trusted intermediary has almost the

Blockchain: Failing to Live up to the Hype as Projects Flounder

By Dick Weisinger

Interest over the last few years in blockchain has been very strong.  Businesses across a variety of industries announced plans to invest in blockchain with goals of disrupting status quo models for doing business. Few of those projects  have yet

Cryptocurrencies: Privately Issued Monies Pre-Civil War Couldn’t Survive. Will History Repeat Itself?

By Dick Weisinger

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana.  History has its cycles and its ups and downs. Some compare what is happening now in the world of cryptocurrencies with  currencies that private banks issued

Blockchain and Logistics: Creating a Shared Ledger that Disintermediates Distributors and Middlemen

By Dick Weisinger

The killer application for blockchain?  Currencies?  Maybe, but regulators everywhere are trying to kill it.  It may turn out that logistics and supply chain is the killer blockchain application.  Blockchain would enable transactions to be recorded in a secure way