December 21, 2020, 10am-11am

Some of the benefits blockchain will bring to the healthcare industry includes faster payment along the value chain (either payment to vendors in supply chain or payment to patients in medical insurance claims etc.), and tamper-proof audit trails for administrative or regulatory purposes.

Shorter or instant payment time because everybody is using the same ledger, thus no reconciliation needed.

Tamper-proof because blockchain promises immutability to verified data.

Blockchain Technology & IoT, Linking Medical Research To Healthcare Industry

The above file was presented in a webinar (through Webex) titled
“Blockchain Technology & IoT Linking Medical Research to Healthcare Industry” back in 21st December 2020, 10.00 am – 11.00 am GMT+8.

Video link: https://www.facebook.com/informm.usm/videos/1390535027783816

Thank you USM for hosting such a great webinar.

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Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Security Tokens – Reshaping the Future by FYHS Alumni Association in North America

Date And Time: Sun, October 11, 2020, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM +08

Location: Online Event

TechTalk Series (Mandarin and English) Session #1

Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Security Tokens – Reshaping the Future

TechTalk Series features many industry experts and their insights into the emerging, world-changing technologies, the opportunities that come with them, and ways they impact societies, governments, businesses, and individuals.

This session will provide the audience with

1. The general concept of Blockchain.
2. History and evolution – where we come from, where we are now, and where we could be heading.
3. The relationship between blockchain, bitcoin, and money.
4. Blockchain from technology and economic perspectives.
5. Real-life examples of the applications, opportunities, and impacts.

HOST: Mark Mah 馬松文

Silicon Valley Technopreneur | Venture Partner | Investor at FRACSIO, REXZ AI, ZEELY AI. Growing tech ventures in Real Estate, Digital Media, Cross-Border E-Commerce, and more with Blockchain, DApps, DeFi, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.

GUEST SPEAKER: How Tze Koh 高浩知

Co-Founder, Crypto Valley Malaysia | Author, Blockchain Insider | Tech Advisor | Futurist

GUEST SPEAKER: Dato Dr. Kevin Cho 曹耀群博士

Founder at BBAI (Blockchain Business Alliance International) 链商国际商业联盟 | Chairman at International Fintech Foundation (Yayasan Fintech Sedunia)

Full session video: https://www.facebook.com/foonyew/videos/3465863350118515/

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3 Ways To Implement CBDC

A lot of money at stake, it will take time.

1️⃣ Gradual (or) indirect approach

2️⃣ Direct approach

3️⃣ Hybrid solutions

Can start with Blockchaining Sukuk.

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Without transparency there won’t be shared prosperity. ~ Frederik Bussler, CEO BitGrit Inc

Imagine a smart city powered by data, artificial intelligence, and IoT.

If the city controls these means of production, then they control the value generation as well

If the city decides what to do with the data, AI, and IoT in an opaque system, then the citizens may not be helping good causes.

This is an authoritative system.

If we instead have citizens build the systems and set directions, then we have democracy.

Blockchain can be a way to account for contributions to AI systems, including data, computing power, and talent (code) provisions, while incentivizing good behavior

Blockchain In Smart Cities

How does blockchain play its role when it comes to smart city development?

There are at least 4 areas that blockchain can be used as part of the backbone technology for smart cities:

Reputation

One thing good about a well designed blockchain is its immutability instance. This makes it suitable to log things that could be useful in providing reputation, such as the ID of a person, a certification for education or quality assurance, and even asset ownership acknowledgement or devices identification as we are connecting more smart machines (big or small) through IoT.

We need to ensure that the other party we are interacting with are of good reputation and is genuine. For example, when we talk about connected vehicles or autonomous cars, or even the existing Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) updates, how can we ensure that hackers do not intercept in between and the firmware we are updating to our vehicles are originated from a genuine source?

Finance

Needless to say, the success of bitcoin and most of the alt-coins is a living example of how the blockchain technology can be used as a currency. The challenge now is to make it more stable so it fits the purpose as a medium of exchange as what most fiat money do well now.

Democracy

Another good use case leveraging the immutability of the blockchain is about the true democracy in our society or the city. We don’t need to have periodic votings and select our policy makers when it comes to matters related to the development or things that need to be done collaboratively through a democratic process.

Public voting can be executed via blockchain based system to decide on certain issues that affect certain communities in a certain area, if not the city as a whole. Every decision making process will become more transparent, real time, and theoretically, fair.

Energy

There has never been problem with resources, the problem lies within distribution. That was a good old saying pending a solution. With blockchain technology, a more liberalized energy market could be created. Peer to peer energy network can make the current centralized energy distribution model looks a bit autocratic and outdated in today’s world. The more efficient we transfer and distribute our energy sources, the closer we will be in reaching our greener goals.

From the successful implementation of smart grids starting with energy distribution, we could be finding more possibilities and opportunities to utilities and environmental related industry.

As such, I enclose this article for now. For further reading, check out

Blockchain Technologies: The Next Frontier of Smart Cities – Part 2  by Lily Maxwell posted in Bee Smart City on 20th August, 2018

Smart Cities and Blockchain: Four Countries Where AI and DLT Exist Hand-in-Hand by Julia Magas posted in Coin Telegraph on 17th June, 2018

Related Updates as at February 2019:

Finance and economic

Liberstad — a private, anarcho-capitalist city in Norway — has adopted a cryptocurrency native to its blockchain-powered smart city platform as its official medium of exchange, according to a press release published on Feb. 12.

South Korea’s leading telecommunications company, KT Corporation, has been selected to develop a local cryptocurrency in the South Korean city of Gimpo. The city plans to issue 11 billion won (over $9.7 million) worth of the currency per year, which includes budgets for various social services and development projects.

The Institute of Decentralized Economics (IDE) has opened in London, the United Kingdom on Feb. 14, 2019. The idea behind the IDE is to “help organizations better understand the economics that underlie the blockchain industry.” The IDE will also study the design and viability of stablecoins and how government policy and “crypto-economic” technologies interact.

Luxembourg lawmakers have passed bill 7363 into law, facilitating the use of blockchain technology in financial services, according to an official announcement published by the country’s parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, on Feb. 14.

The new law aims provide financial market participants with more transparency and legal certainty in regard to the circulation of securities with blockchain technology. The bill is also geared to make the transfer of securities more efficient by reducing the number of intermediaries.

Energy and Utilities

Dutch technology company ElaadNL has developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for a smart power grid for electric vehicles using internet of things (IoT)-focused IOTA Tangle technology, according to the company’s announcement on Feb. 14, 2019.

Per the announcement, the PoC shows the ability of smart grids to not only consume power, but also generate it and autonomously redistribute it amongst community members. The initiative was based on IOTA’s Tangle technology, which purportedly lets the charging devices autonomously decide whether there is need to help balance grid load.

The global blockchain in energy utilities market was assessed to be $210.4 million in 2018, and is expected to reach $3.4 billion by 2024. Infoholic Research thus predicts the growth at a compound annual growth rate of 59.4 percent during the period from 2018 to 2024.

Tokenization of physical assets and the impact of IoT and AI

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The event was presented by Wework, and is part of the Asean countries roadshow which include Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

supporting partners include big names in related industries such as KPMG, Deloitte etc.

Diet Chain’s project presentation was scheduled in one of the session 1’s slot.

This was Diet Chain’s project first international public exposure. The concept was well presented.

TA#3 Demo Day X Echelon TOP100 Taiwan 2018

The event was broadcast-ed live over Facebook.

Embedded below the live cast recorded during the event. Presentation of DietChain project by CEO Mr. Winston Yoo was from ~ 58:28 – 1:20:28.

TA3 Demo Day Taipei Trip Summary

This was a fruitful trip with Diet Chain’s CEO Mr. Winston Yoo. We met the development team from Taiwan (young and energetic 3Js) and came out with a solid timeline for what is coming into the picture. We also strategized an orchestrated marketing plan for upcoming’s project launching.

Diet Chain is a AI driven, Blockchain based startup poised to reshape the food supply chain and redistribute the food-dollar.

Related media coverage

These startups from Taiwan are bringing the benchmark to the next level

民視新聞網 ：台灣新創躍上亞太平台 TA Demo Day 結合 TOP100 反應熱烈

自立電子報 : 台灣新創躍上「TA Demo Day」

經濟日報 ：TA Demo Day 助台灣新創躍亞太平台

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Blockchain Innovation & Investment Summit 2018, Dubai

The Blockchain Innovation and Investment Summit (BII SUMMIT) is the largest event of its kind in the Middle East which focuses on case-study based presentations in ongoing and upcoming Blockchain based projects.

Venue of the event, Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), located in the heart of Dubai’s dynamic downtown.

We had a great meeting and discussion at DIFC, the night before the event with our fellow members from Ultroneum, a Crypto Bank project initiated by Malaysian crypto enthusiast.

Start the day by signing our presence on the attendance board.

Taking a photo with Ultroneum friends at the entrance.

Titan The Robot

One of the highlights was the opening ceremony by special guest, Titan the Robot.

The nice gentleman who communicates with the robot, Mark Foggett, Marketing Director of Titan the Robot.

BII Summit Speakers

BII Summit presents a unique platform with a diversified list of Speakers consisting of renowned Blockchain Tech companies, ICO Startups, Institutional Investment firms and Government Authorities. We managed to get intact with some of the global industry leaders and industry players related to Blockchain and A.I. technology over luncheon and exhibition area.

Simon Cocking, one of the official ambassador for BII Summit Dubai, Founder / Senior Editor of Irish Tech News, Chief Editor of Cryptocoin News, Blockchain Advisor and Strategist.

Khalid Parekh, CEO & Founder, along with his colleague of Amchart, a secure international Electronic Health Record (EHR) that will change the way we access patient and provider records, using Blockchain technology to eliminate health-record problems, improving portability and security.

Eran Eyal, CEO & Founder of Shopin, which made a very good presentation on The Future of Retail on the Blockchain. Shopin believes that in order to fix the broken state of today’s retail industry, shoppers must own and control their own data, and retailers must be given the tools and data access for a more equitable and sustainable retail economy.

Reggie Middleton, Founder & CEO of Veritaseum, who shared his point on Wall Street Disintermediation, and why this time it is really different. A nice presentation with an elaboration of the risk and rewards of participating in the shifting paradigm that threatens the legacy financial industry.

Stefan Hickmott, Founder & CEO, and Andrew Rowlstone, Head of Investor Relations from Evareium, which digitalised real estate investment via Blockchain, something I called tokenizing real estates.

Last but not least, check out the Ultroneum booth, in support of our Malaysian initiated project. Malaysia boleh !

Dr. Mohamed Al Hemairy from University of Sharjah, where civilizations meet. A very friendly and nice scholar.

VIP Gala Dinner

It was a great dinner session with some of the industry leaders working towards the same direction. We have the team from Veritaseum and Shopin with us on the same table.

We exchanged ideas and viewpoints over capitalism as what it is today, and how the shifting paradigm is threatening the legacy of existing industries by giving back people more power and control over their own data, especially in identity and financial part of it.

Learned a lot in a long single day. Tiring but happy, as how my colleagues describe it.

BII Summit Dubai 2018, Trip Summary

While most of the companies are startups with bold visions, we have yet to see any of them become as successful as companies such as Google and  Facebook of the Web Era.

A.I. could be the end game. We just happened to be in the Blockchain Era within a century of techology innovation where we are getting genuine and authentic data, linking up devices through IoT (Internet of Things).

We are feeding data and creating nodes for a powerful system of the future, something illustrated as Skynet in the movie The Terminator.

Yet, I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it all begins, what some of the people are doing and where we might be heading.

Where to go from here is a choice I leave to you.

Side Notes

Some of the photo notes taken during the event.

The tentative program, click image to enlarge.

Thanks to our book project supporters.

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On 12th December 2017, a private session on The New Investment Frontier was held at TPCKL, where speakers from Malaysia, UK and U.S. shared the same stage exchanging ideas related to Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and ICO.

The book, Blockchain Insider, made its first introduction to the English speaking group of elite investors who would like to explore more about the technology behind this cryptocurrency revolution.

The Evolution of Money

Some thoughts on the future of money.

View the Presentation slides here:

Blockchain is The Web, All Over Again

If history does repeat itself, you will be amazed by how similar it is the evolution of the blockchain to that of the internet.

Blockchain Insider
Chapter 2 – The Name of The Game

Read the SAMPLE CHAPTER here:

It was a great afternoon spent with a group of great people.

Thanks to event sponsors and our kind hosts for making this talk a success. Looking forward more success stories in the crypto world.

For a better future and a better world.

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It is a space that had existed for only 7 years.  It does represent something truly revolutionary.

• A fundamental change in our understanding of trust.
• A change in the way we organize authority and trust from hierarchy system to network-centric flex system.
• A reimagining of what it means to have currency, how currency derives its value.
• A new system for disintermediating intermediaries.
• A rebalancing of world affairs.

All of these things are true but we don’t really know how this is going to play out.

Sitting in the front row of history. Observing history in the making.

What is bitcoin? What is the blockchain?

Bitcoin is the first blockchain.
Bitcoin is the largest open global blockchain that exists today.
Bitcoin is the first borderless, transnational, open system of access for financial payments and trust that enables innovation without permission, with high resistance to censorship, coercion and geopolitical manipulation.
Bitcoin is a mathematical prove system that is fundamentally neutral to participants. It exhibits the principle on the internet that we called net-neutrality and bring that to finance, which of course, terrifies people.

Finance without concern for a source, destination, or amount?
Neutral routing of transactions?
Equal for everyone?
That idea is terrifying. Where does authority come from? Where does trust come from?

It’s almost as if suddenly we no longer pay attention to, the New York Times, and instead, anyone can publish their opinion without an editor. What will the world come to?

What the internet did for communication, bitcoin is doing for finance.

It is introducing a fundamentally different network centric and flex system that allows us to do transactions without recourse to authorities or intermediaries and that derives trust from the collaboration and computation of thousands of nodes. It uses a blockchain. The blockchain is one of the several components that make bitcoin works. And if you focus too much on blockchain you may miss the point.

Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Explained

Smart Money
Smart Energy
Smart Contract
Smart Assets

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Despite its mysterious beginnings, the blockchain may be the airplane of our time.

Economist and filmmaker Manuel Stagars portrays this exciting technology in interviews with software developers, cryptologists, researchers, entrepreneurs, consultants, VCs, authors, politicians, and futurists from the United States, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and Australia.

The documentary is divided into 7 sections:

1. First Contact With The Blockchain
2. Blockchain Technology
3. Influence of the Blockchain
4. New Business Opportunities
5. The Blockchain and Banks
6. The Blockchain and Financial Inclusion
7. The Real Revolution
8. The Blockchain and Us

Blockchain and Us by Manuel Stagars

Notes on Blockchain and Us

Roger Wattenhofer
Professor, Distributed Computing Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

“For me, part of the fascination is that we don’t yet know exactly what this thing is, and yet there are still lots of people getting around it. I thought of it as it’s like a space rock that crashed on Earth. You have a bunch of people that gather around and all pointing to it, what this thing is? You don’t really know what it is but it is still very interesting.”
Taylor Gerring
Co-Founder, Ethereum
Zug, Switzerland

Blockchains are military grade cryptography.

“We are really seeing a new way of transacting value on the internet.”
Elizabeth Stark
Co-Founder & CEO, Lightning
San Francisco, USA

What matters to people is what they can do with the technology.

“I think within 20 years, financial services will be just software and the smart contract technology, in particular, is going to automate a lot of things that institutions and people handle today.”
Caitlin Long
Chairman of the Board & President at Symbiont.io
New York, USA

“”When they saw the whole opportunity, they are ready to change, hey I don’t understand everything but I understand there’s something behind, so we really need to go forward.”
Jan Seffinga
Partner, Deloitte Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland

What prosperity offers you, is independent.

“We are at the cross road here. We have the graviton now to create the technology that will actually help the entire human race. The question is, will we do it? But we can do it now.”
Rik Willard
Founder & Managing Director, Agentic Group
New York, USA

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We need to know the philosophy of Bitcoin, categories of money and how we get into the current financial mess. The blockchain is the main thing not to be missed. It is the web, all over again.

In order to understand Blockchain, we should to take a look into Bitcoin, which is one of the most successful Blockchain application at the time of writing.

Bitcoin: Where the Laws of Mathematics Prevail

In this talk, Andreas speaks about Bitcoin as a system of commerce that is the culmination of decades of research into cryptography and digital currencies, and how it achieves digital scarcity through proof-of-work and decentralized consensus. He argues that Bitcoin is powerful because it is where the laws of mathematics prevail to deliver robust security, financial autonomy, and censorship resistance.

Blockchain 101 – A Visual Demo

The explanation about what is blockchain might be a bit technical in this embedded video. However, you should be able to understand at least something from it. We consider the explanation in the video below is pretty much on the intermediate level. A little bit of programming background might help.

This is a very basic visual introduction to the concepts behind a Blockchain. Published by Anders Brownworth on Nov 5, 2016.

As you can see, the idea of an immutable ledger was introduced using an interactive web demo. If you are interested in playing with this on your own, it is available online at: http://anders.com/blockchain

The Power of the Blockchain

Once you went through above video with some basics on the technical aspect, you may want to check out this video by Siraj Raval which was published on Jun 9, 2017.

Use case #1: Giving datasets and models a reputation
Use case #2: Peer to peer Model training
Use case #3: AI-run Companies!

This video also goes through a little bit of demonstration by building a Blockchain in Python.

In summary, we barely have begun to explore what happens when we use the blockchain as a way to improve our AI:

– Help verify data + model quanlity
– P2P exchanges
– Entirely new business models
– AI based companies, create independent organizations run entirely by AI

Enjoy the video!

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