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By Sandra Quinn Today, November 17, is National Unfriend Day – I know it’s not a regular international day of recognition and indeed is not a particularly nice one, but it does provide some food for thought about the social media saturated world in which we live. This is a day, which logistically speaking, from […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Twenty years ago, most people’s houses would have been filled with books, manuals, DVD’s and CD’s – now many of these have been replaced by apps on our smart phones and tablets. Apps are wonderful, as many of them are compatible with both Android and Apple and the majority are free or […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn A Decentralised Application, otherwise known as a DApp, is an app run by multiple users on a decentralised network with trustless protocols. They are intrinsically designed to avoid being felled by a single point of failure and typically have tokens to reward users for providing the computing power. These are very much […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Over the next month, all of the little people in your life will be busy poring over toy catalogues, paying eagle-eyed attention to toy adverts on television and YouTube and listening to what other children are wanting to get for Christmas, as they prepare to draft their letters to Santa. In that […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Christmas is a time of excitement, joy and for children (and some of the bigger children amongst us) a time for tinkering with new toys and playing with new inventions. If you have any little people in your life who are interested in science, space, computers, inventions, how things are made or […]Continue Reading

By Andrew Le Gear During July of 2018, the gas price for Ethereum rose by 500% to an Ether price of 100GWei (average), but some peaks of 150Gwei~ were seen.  This rise was unprecedented. On closer inspection of the block range 0x5AC91B to 0x5B009B where the rise occurred we see over 80,000 transactions centred around […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn Is there a secret to success? Are we missing a trick by not coming up with the latest blockchain innovation? What am I missing that the most recent blockchain success story has? These are just some of the questions, which whirr around the minds of blockchain innovators and tech inventors, as they […]Continue Reading

By Dr. Andrew Le Gear Ladies and Gentlemen – introducing “Dora the Blockchain Explorer.” This new blockchain innovation from Horizon Globex allows you to query any transaction from the Ethereum blockchain by constructing a URL in this format and you have a response within seconds. https://exploradora.io/api/BlockchainExplorer?block=[Block]&hash=[Transaction] For example, take a look at this to see […]Continue Reading

By Sandra Quinn “I want to be a firefighter,” “I want to be a doctor,” “I want to be a magician,” – when you ask a young child what they want to be when they grow up, these are some of the common answers, but now more than ever we are starting to hear things […]Continue Reading

By Severin Kranz and translated into English by Sandra Quinn Original article published on Medium on October 8, 2018 read the full article in German here. Brian Collins, CEO and Founder of Horizon Globex presented his business at the second blockchain pitch-in Liechtenstein, speaking abotu the development of blockchain applications. The talketh.io presentation is an example […]Continue Reading