Interview

The idea of creating an insurance platform for the cryptocurrency industry has been on the front burner for a while. There are plenty of stories telling how blockchain and bitcoin related projects fail because of hackers, insufficient security or simply human errors. All these factors impede the industry’s development, scare people away, and cause mass […]

Emercoin team isn’t dying to persuade exchanges to add EMC, preferring to focus on developing the technological side of the project and implementing Emer-based services in everyday life instead.

Earlier this year Swiss blockchain startup DECENT released a prototype of its upcoming content distribution platform. Seeking to empower the platform’s further development, the project has recently announced the crowdsale of its DCT tokens to start on September 10.

Back in 2011, when just a few knew about the existence of cryptocurrencies and even fewer people believed in their future, founders of Bitcoin Hedge Fund Anatoliy Knyazev, Alexey Kirienko, and Gatis Eglitis put their stakes on bitcoin and this was  the right thing to do. The price of bitcoin was about $5 these days when […]

Founders of Steemit, a platform rewarding its users for creating and curating content, believe that  blockchain technology can be applied to social media. Forklog discussed the idea of leveraging the technology behind bitcoin for social media applications with Ned Scott, Steemit Co-founder and CEO. Forklog: The first question is about the basic idea of a […]

June 29, Emercoin and Microsoft Azure have announced that Emercoin Blockchain Engine is added to Azure Marketplace. The app will enable developers to use Emer blockchain system within Microsoft Azure environment. ForkLog asked Stanislav Polozov, director for implementation at Emerlabs, as to how the platform currently works, its capabilities and general state of affairs in […]

ForkLog talked with Luis Molina, leader of initiative on creating a blockchain-based platform for p2p apps Fermat about the opportunities of creating decentralized services. The issues of existing internet centralization, end-to-end encryption of personal data and sharing economy emergence hit the headlines every now and then. Sharing economy principles found in Uber and Airbnb becomes […]

Distributed ledger technology may be successfully applied to develop artificial intelligence projects, thinks Dr. Maxim Orlovsky, Ukrainian complex systems and neuroscience expert.