Estonia is a small nation of just over a million people with a reputation as a global leader in e-government. Citizens of Estonia enjoy a streamlined experience across their digital interactions with the state. The “e-Estonia” narrative has driven Europe’s most efficient and effective digital public service, putting it in the driving seat of the European Commission’s digital single market, and sustaining Estonia’s tech start-ups at home, and its international growth aspirations.
Read MoreIn my previous article Blockchain 101 (part 1) I introduced some of the fundamental concepts of bitcoin. I ended by promising a follow up post where I would come back and explain proof of work, and this is it! To recap, I am focusing on Bitcoin in this post to keep things simple. Proof of work is the way that Bitcoin does things but other blockchain use other systems such as proof of stake or proof of authority...
Read MoreSince starting at Wallet.Services I have learned a fair bit about blockchain but I still find it difficult to explain it to other people! This is partly because it is such a massive subject which can be approached from many different angles. So, I thought I would write this post to organise my understanding of blockchain fundamentals and hopefully help a few of you who are trying to get their first bite of the blockchain learning apple...
Read MoreWhen you hear the word “apprentice” you probably think of joiners, electricians, plumbers etc. You may also think that those are the only types of apprentices that exist! Well, that is fortunately not the case! The world of modern apprenticeships is still a new one but one that is growing very quickly!...
Read MoreMobile World Congress welcomes over 100,000 attendees over four days to the beautiful city of Barcelona, to showcase the newest and most exciting mobile applications.
Wallet.Services was lucky enough to attend as part of the Scottish Development International delegation, alongside other top Scottish tech companies.
Read MoreEven in this age of digital transformation (DT), protecting assets across organisational boundaries, establishing and verifying identities, chronicling events, and guiding interactions between individuals, communities, organisations and nations, usually happens offline. Blockchain is a decentralized software protocol for managing a shared dataset. Enabled by a public distributed ledger system, it allows the tracking and recording of assets and transactions without the presence of a central trust authority or intermediary.
Read MoreWith under 500K inhabitants Dubai seems committed to taking a global lead in digital Public Services through leading the way in practical application of Blockchain tech. Around the world smaller states and cities are being more agile in driving exploitation of this new tech.
At the Scottish Cyber Awards 2017 last week we were shortlisted for 2 awards alongside very strong and established cybersecurity companies.
So we were delighted to be invited up on the stage to collect our Best Cyber Breakthrough award for our Siccar solution.
Read MoreA fully funded PhD studentship on Trustable dapps on reliable blockchain technologies is available at the Computing Science and Mathematics division of the University of Stirling, UK, in collaboration with Wallet.Services.
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