A Smart Contract is a computer program that runs on a blockchain and automates the management of digital agreements. The terms of the contract are encoded in the program and executed without the need for intermediaries. From a legal and juridical view, a smart contract is an automated digital agreement that is executed securely, transparently …
Where the free exchange of goods and services is unknown, money is not wanted. In a state of society in which the division of labor was a purely domestic matter and production and consumption were consummated within the single household it would be just as useless as it would be for an isolated man. – …
The decentralized economy is a set of tools that are gradually being integrated into society, like cryptocurrencies, and are beginning to replace the traditional banking system, based on central banks and governments, which has been in place since the Bretton Woods Agreements in 1944. With blockchain, information is not stored on a single server, but …
The problem that is happening in Great Britain, as well as in the rest of Europe, has also crossed the pond and is emerging on American shores. Specifically in California, a few days after the announcement of the phase-out of gas-powered cars, the government is calling for the recharging of electric vehicles to be prevented …
At the beginning of the year, as is happening in the rest of Europe, there is disturbing energy news from the United Kingdom: Electric vehicle charging points in Britain are now almost as expensive as petrol, study finds Despite the UK wanting to end the sale of new diesel and petrol cars and vans by …
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“In Norway it is more expensive to recharge an electric car than to refuel gasoline, and in Switzerland their use is restricted.” While many countries hope to eliminate combustion vehicles by 2035 and adopt electric cars instead, the current political and economic situation due to the war between Russia and Ukraine has increased the price …
Cross-silo federated learning supports more flexibility in certain aspects of the overall design, but at the same time presents an environment in which achieving other properties may be more difficult. The cross-silo setup may be relevant when several companies or organizations share incentives to train a model based on all their data, but cannot share …
Blockchain technology has undergone significant changes since its inception, attracting the attention of a wide variety of audiences around the world. In the early days of this technology, the participants were the people who could see the change and were interested in the revolution that this technology would bring with its arrival. At its inception, …
Smart contracts are programs based on decentralized distributed ledger technologies (DLT) that are executed based on specific logic and agreements. Due to their characteristics, they can help reduce document forgery and increase accessibility, which is why there are a large number of applications. Preservation and accessibility of documents Forgery of certificates and documents has been …
In federated learning, a central server organizes the training process and receives contributions from all clients, thus potentially also representing a single point of failure. Thus, a reliable and powerful central server may not always be available or desirable in more collaborative learning scenarios, and may even become a bottleneck when the number of clients …
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