Earlier in the summer, leisure travel giant TUI released a corporate video showcasing their exploration of blockchain technology as a means of managing their committed bedstock, an application they’ve dubbed ‘Bedswap’. CEO Fritz Joussen had previously attracted attention by commenting on the potential for blockchain technology to replace the likes…
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Part One took a heroic stab at explaining the technology that underpins Bitcoin – the blockchain. But although the mysterious inventor (or inventors) of the blockchain concept, ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, wrote specifically about using it to implement a ‘crypto-currency’, the concept is not dependent on this: in principle the blocks could…
In 1936, a promising young Cambridge Mathematician, Alan Mathison Turing, published a peculiar paper with a misleadingly dry title. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem was an important piece of work in the world of formal mathematical logic, a world blown apart 5 years earlier by Kurt…