With rising institutional interest and adoption of various cryptoassets, including bitcoin but also many other crypto related applications, it seems worthwhile to revisit an often-stated, but ...
Dr Gideon Greenspan is the founder and CEO of Coin Sciences, the company behind the MultiChain platform for private blockchains. In this opinion piece, Greenspan attacks the idea that true ...
Chris DeRose is a journalist, software developer, bitcoin evangelist, public speaker and lead developer of Drop Zone. In this feature, DeRose discusses immutability and why he believes excessive ...
GUEST OPINION: Immutability, in the context of data and information technology, refers to the property of data or systems that cannot be changed once they are created. This concept plays a critical ...
Immutability is a feature of functional programming languages that makes programs easier to write, test, and maintain. However, immutability is not supported by many imperative programming languages.
When I started coding in the 1970s, I used BASIC. I remember discovering the cool new language feature called GOSUB that let you jump around easily in code and then return to where you had previously ...
Data is the lifeblood of today's enterprises and an extremely lucrative target for attackers. Ransomware, which essentially holds data "hostage" by encrypting it until the company pays a ransom, is ...