Positive Blockchain Magazine

• Announcement
• Lucas

Reading Time: 3 minutes PositiveBlockchain is an open database listing 1000 blockchain projects for positive impact. But not only, we are also a community of volunteers exploring the potential of blockchain technologies for the embetterment of the world. We support the ecosystem in their quest of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals.   The near future In 2021 we are aiming […]

• Interviews
• Maciej

Reading Time: 9 minutes A year after featuring the pilot results in our Community Currency report, we now talk to Sandra Uwantege-Hart, who leads the UnBlocked Cash project, which is now a live blockchain use case reaching 35,000 people in 2020 and scaling across the Pacific region and beyond. The project developed by Oxfam together with Australian Fintech Sempo […]

• Insight ,Research
• Andeh_W

Reading Time: 9 minutes DeFi what? Those who have been around crypto will be used to the fluctuations in price and sentiment that this year has brought. What is – so far – unique about 2020 in crypto, is the unveiling and delivery of DeFi to the world. As Bitcoin wallet addresses skyrockets to new highs, Bitcoin has successfully […]

• Interviews
• carmenng

Reading Time: 5 minutes Photo: Unsplash PositiveBlockchain: The Covid-19 pandemic has put the fragility of healthcare systems under public spotlight. According to the Africa CDC, over 1.4 million infection cases have been reported across the continent of Africa. Yet, global humanitarian relief bodies such as the IRC believe the true scale of the pandemic may be hidden because of […]

• Interviews
• carmenng

Reading Time: 7 minutes PositiveBlockchain: The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed not only a health crisis, but also one that affects societies and econ­omies at their core. The United Nations Development Programme recently reported that the ongoing pandemic is “hitting hard on all of human development’s constitutive elements”, such as loss of income at a scale not seen since the […]

• Insight
• Andeh_W

Reading Time: 10 minutes Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!   — Marcus Garvey   Digital Sovereignty and Inequality   Can we agree that at the halfway point, it has been a fairly comprehensive and eventful year so far? With every month comes another potentially ominous sign reinforcing the status of the year 2020 […]

• News
• Paul

Reading Time: 2 minutes Developments in the field of digitalisation have been given a further boost by the coronavirus pandemic. This is especially true for the control of supply chains and products that travel around the globe. The technology behind the Bitcoin currency is becoming increasingly valuable. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared war on the corona virus […]

• Changemakers ,Interviews
• Maike Gericke

Reading Time: 8 minutes In the PositiveBlockchain changemaker series, we talk to insipiring agents of change and impact advocates, in the industry and beyond. Today, we talk to Karim Chabrak of Coinsence about his work in community building and decentralized value creation!   Karim is founder of coinsence.org, a decentral collaboration, value creation and exchange platform that enables communities […]

• Insight
• Lucas

Reading Time: 2 minutes PositiveBlockchain has been invited in January 2020 by the think-tank European Partnership for the Environment (EPE) to present the ecosystem of blockchain for the SDGs and Climate Change at a recent workshop. We are happy to share the slides. (Read the full article on Medium)   180 million Euros. That’s about how much the EU has invested […]

• Changemakers ,Interviews
• Maike Gericke

Reading Time: 6 minutes Over the coming weeks, PositiveBlockchain will launch a broad selection of interview series related to blockchain for social impact. This series will focus on the impact itself, and provide inspiration and insights on how to maximize, sustain and quantify the impact of our work. Let’s start with Iulian Circo, the co-founder of Proof of Impact. […]