North Carolina-based Fluree has raised $4.7 million in its first funding round for the company’s blockchain-based database system, according to a report by Tech Crunch on June 3. The firm’s blockchain ...

Fluree is not a very straightforward product to get. To some extent, that goes for all data management systems. More so for graph databases. Even more so for blockchain-based systems. Fluree combines ...

The foundational technologies underlying Bitcoin are a secure, distributed transaction ledger, timestamp server and proof of work algorithm implemented as a blockchain ledger. As Satoshi put it his ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Jonathan Reichental covers technology in business and society. In 2009, Bitcoin, the first of many cryptocurrencies and still ...

Cryptocurrency, blockchain and decentralized data are all buzzwords we've seen floating around in recent years, but the technology is so new that it's hard to see direct applications to our lives, ...

Much of Bitcoin’s BTC/USD characteristics and advantages over fiat currencies stem from its underlying system - the blockchain. Things like the anonymity of transactions, protection from tampering ...

Blockchain has been accused by detractors as nothing more than a more complicated and expensive database. While both technologies offer data storage and management, blockchain has one unique feature a ...

Fluree, a North Carolina startup that wants to bring the immutability of blockchain to the database, announced a $4.7 million seed round today led by 4490 Ventures with participation from Revolution’s ...

The blockchain-based art registry startup Artory has acquired auction house database Auction Club, according to a tweet from Artory on March 21. Auction Club is a subscription-only database containing ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Blockchain is an obscure term to most Americans, even if due to its growing popularity they ...