Beyond Cryptocurrency: Blockchain for the Real World
This past year has been defined by cryptocurrency. It is the latest trend; the hottest new technology. However, while most are familiar with powerhouses like bitcoin and Ethereum, many users have overlooked the full potential that blockchain technology has to offer.
Join Professor David Mazières as discusses the fundamentals of blockchain technology and its value to other real world applications.
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Never underestimate the resourcefulness of a great plumber.
Had it not been for the genius of , champion inventor of the water-waste-preventing cistern syphon, Victorians would have been left to make their trek to that malodorous darker place otherwise known as the Out House, or perhaps the crockery pot stashed under the bed for a while longer.
Born in 1836, Crapper was apprenticed to a master plumber at the tender (today) age of 14 and had hung his shingle in Chelsea by his mid-twenties. Such was Crapper’s renown and stellar reputation, that even the Royals themselves were early adopters. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, is the first known to grace the invention with his regal rear. Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey would be appointed in short order ensuring safe and sanitarily stately relief as the royal “We” traveled from castle to castle.
Of course, it took rude Americans to nick his last name, giving future generations of boisterous boys endless joy at having a humorous potty word to reference the potty. Crapper took great pride in publicly peddling his patented products. Legend has it prim British ladies would faint upon happening upon his Marlborough Road shop, such was the shock at the sight of this and that model of the technological wonder behind huge pane glass windows.
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This past year has been defined by cryptocurrency. It is the latest trend; the hottest new technology. However, while most are familiar with powerhouses like bitcoin and Ethereum, many users have overlooked the full potential that blockchain technology has to offer.