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IOHK partners with Wolfram

IOHK have struck a deal with Wolfram, and Cardano will join Bitcoin and Ethereum in integrating into Wolfram’s industry leading technology and knowledge base, Wolfram Alpha. You probably already know that Wolfram’s knowledge base and Natural Language Processing technology helps power agents like Siri and Alexa. The blog post notes: We are currently defining a…

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Cardano ‘Elevator Pitch’

Charles covered ‘Why Cardano?’ in a recent AMA. In 2 minutes he explains the Cardano mission and how it aims to change the world to using a single financial system, empowering people without access to identity, banking, insurance, and other financial services that many people in the ‘West’ take for granted. This mission goes back…

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Cardano brand update

Details of the Cardano brand update and associated animation have been released. In early 2020, the Cardano Foundation and its ecosystem partners embarked on an ambitious brand reappraisal exercise for the Cardano blockchain, enlisting the help of award-winning design and creative agency McCann Dublin as well as our valued community. This led to a unified and renewed…

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The ‘problem’ with Altcoins

We’ve been spending some time lately looking through the Nakamoto Institute web site. You could perhaps say (unfairly?) it’s the spiritual home of the “Bitcoin Maxi”. It has a large amount of excellent references hosted that relate to the goals and design decisions that fed into Bitcoin. For example publications by Ludwig Von Mises on…

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A reflection on progress

On Ada Lovelace’s birthday Charles reflects on Cardano progress over the last 5 years, and shares goals as we go into 2021.