Self-sovereign identity and identity management

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Today, there are three major problems with how we transact online today: users have low privacy, fraud prevention efforts cost businesses a lot of money, and password-based authentication leads to frequent data breaches. Will the blockchain-based self-sovereign Identity rectify these?

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Distributed systems – The foundation of blockchain technology

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By Lumai Mubanga. [email protected] There are many current technologies today, whose backbone are distributed systems. We need to understand what distributed systems are to understand blockchain technology. Like many others, blockchain is just a specific type of a distributed system. What are distributed systems and what properties or features do they have that favor the […]

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How Africa can immensely benefit from blockchain technology (part 3)

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In this article, we will discuss how Africa can still benefit in other areas such as credible voting.

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Blockchain indexing – a marvelous feat!

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The graph has immerged as that blockchain “search engine” equivalent to google… it is a protocol developed to specifically index and make queries on blockchain data. As a blockchain user, you have much to explore and learn about the Graph.

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Bitcoin merchanics – key generation best practices

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By Lumai Mubanga. [email protected] Depending on your level of involvement in the Bitcoin ecosystem, you surely should have either a hot or a cold wallet to conduct transactions. Sending and receiving bitcoins into your wallet requires that you generate a private key were you will receive the bitcoins. Recall that, to successfully transact, you need […]

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Hyper ledge, a unique permissioned ledger.

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As an open source hosted by the Linux foundation, hyperledger cuts across many industries. Unlike bitcoins, it is actually more enterprise focused than any other similar platform. Nevertheless, just how unique is hyperledger?

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Blockchain application and foreign aid

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Foreign aid disbursements have been a challenge for donor countries for some time. The aid is normally sent to developing countries in war-torn countries, refugee camps and underdeveloped countries especially in Africa, South America and middle east. some of the challenges have been lack of accountability, absence of records and the aid not reaching the intended recipients. Blockchain, however, seems to have been the solution already. This article will discuss how that could be possible and how it is being done.

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Enterprise blockchain platforms (part 3)

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The need for more centralization and a choice of consensus mechanisms are among the critical factors that determine the success of individual enterprise blockchains. There are arguments that this compromises on the security feature as opposed to decentralization and scalability.

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Blockchain and conflict minerals

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African is well known for its mineral wealth many of which is rare, expensive, and in high demand. However, Africa is also well known for civil strife especially in areas where these minerals are found. One mineral that was recently classified as a conflict mineral is tantalum.

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How blockchain can be used to manage land titles

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Many underdeveloped countries have a huge challenge in accounting for the massive land they own. With millions of hectares of land available largely owned by the state, they lack the mechanism to properly manage, allocate and account for.

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