Blockchain has been accused by detractors as nothing more than a more complicated and expensive database. While both technologies offer data storage and management, blockchain has one unique feature a ...

The foundational technologies underlying Bitcoin are a secure, distributed transaction ledger, timestamp server and proof of work algorithm implemented as a blockchain ledger. As Satoshi put it his ...

Because there’s so much excitement about the potential of blockchain, there’s a risk that project planners will start throwing this emerging technology at problems that don’t fit. This article is ...

The creator of Proof-of-Stake, Sunny King, has been working on a blockchain database cloud that has been dubbed the “supernode proof-of-stake” or SPoS. The project is designed to work in conjunction ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When I think of why we need a blockchain, I think of one guy. There was a ...

For the past few years, database vendors have been busily enhancing their cloud offerings and consolidating the innovations that arose more than 10 years ago from the big data and NoSQL movements.

ProvenDB, a new blockchain-enabled database service, has launched an early access program. The MongoDB-compatible database service aims to make it easier for developers to build cutting-edge apps ...