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TechTarget Recognizes Geeq as a Blockchain Problem Solver

TechTarget recently recognized Geeq as a problem solver in blockchain, and we are bursting with pride. In the article called, “Problems with blockchain and how they’re being solved,” author David Petersson points out some of the issues with blockchain and then discusses how “cutting-edge companies” like Geeq are tackling these complex challenges.

“IoT deployments have their own problems with blockchain,” Petersson writes. “IoT sensors and devices have low battery and storage. Thus, blockchain IoT developers must deal with feasibility issues,

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Check Out Our Updated Demo!

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Geeq has developed a protocol unlike any other for blockchain technology. It empowers the user to find a provably honest, immutable blockchain.

Demo v1.1 has arrived!

One of Geeq’s founding principles is: You only have control over yourself. You cannot control other people. Yet the promise of public blockchain is to connect, trade, buy and sell,

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Video : Geeq at UC – Berkeley

Geeq Chief Economist John Conley and Professor Greg LaBlanc (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley) preview their fireside chat as part of the Blockchain for Enterprise course for the UC – Berkeley School of Law.

Geeq : Interview in Blockleaders

One of our favorite OGs (Original Geeqs), Stephanie So, was recently profiled by Blockleaders, an online publication that features men and women who “inspire, challenge, design and build blockchain and cryptocurrency projects.”

Check Out Our First Demo!

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The only useful blockchain—or at least the only one that honest, risk-averse people should trust—is one that can be proven to be a record of truth at all times. In blockchain speak, there must be a canonical (universally accepted) blockchain that always displays a truthful and immutable Current Ledger State (CLS). Geeq has proven this is possible by developing a proprietary consensus mechanism,

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Cost Estimates for IoT on GeeqChain

Geeq’s flexible federated chains allow you to customize your IoT-on-blockchain solutions. Here’s what you need to know to calculate costs.

Geeq : In It For The Revolution

One of our fearless founding Geeqs, Stephanie So, was recently profiled in a Medium Authority Magazine article entitled, “Women Leading the Blockchain Revolution.”

In this illuminating interview piece, author Tyler Gallagher chatted with Stephanie about everything from her winding career path and her influential high school math teacher to the magic of micropayments and how blockchain technology will be more disruptive than the internet.

“The focus of Geeq has always been on security,

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Geeq : Pushing Distributed Ledgers Toward True Decentralization

One of our founding Geeqs, Stephanie So, was recently featured in a BlockPublisher article by Shehryar Hasan about consensus protocols. In the piece, Stephanie discussed some of her ideological issues with other blockchain implementations.

The idea that databases can be publicly accessed and distributed geographically often leads to the dangerous assumption that this data is beyond any outsider’s control. Stephanie says this is not the case.

In the BlockPublisher article,

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AMA Session with Geeq Founders

Update: A transcript is now available, courtesy of PaperstreetVC.

Ask Me Anything on Telegram: TH 1/24/2019, 4 pm EST

Join us on Telegram this Thursday, 1/24, at 4 pm EST for Geeq’s 1st AMA. Hosted by PaperstreetVC.

With Chief Economist John Conley – Aligning the incentives in blockchain and CEO Ric Asselstine – Steering straight at business pain points

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Terepac IoT + Geeq Blockchain

Our CEO, Ric Asselstine, knows how to build successful companies.

Geeq : Featured in Blockleaders

John P. Conley: Blockchain, Game Theory, and Empowering Humans Above Machines

by Fernando Sanchez

John gets candid in an interview with Fernando Sanchez, and Fernando gets John to explain in plain terms how crucial it is to think about economic game theory when the blockchain stakes are high.

“If you want to trust your society to a blockchain, 51% Byzantine Fault Tolerance is not enough to guarantee the security of stock exchanges,

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Meet the Geeq : Thomas Johnson

Thomas Johnson, Co-Founder and Head of Operations for Digital Asset Management (DAM). DAM’s primary mission is to offer asset security, liquidity and conversion for corporate clients—like Geeq—as well as private individuals.

Welcome to Geeq Thoughts

We want our blog to be an honest, constructive, engaging and sometimes funny place for people to express their opinions, ask questions, make suggestions or simply think out loud about any topic that intersects with blockchain.

What’s Wrong With Blockchain and Why Do I Not Understand It?

William Maeck steers us out of the ‘semantic wasteland’ of blockchain (credit goes to Nic Carter for the term), and leaves us with a three word phrase to remember.

Meet the Geeq : Jay Coshan

“GeeqChain is one of those rare and beautiful projects where someone is building a truly disruptive technology that will further the foundation for blockchain adoption,” says Jay Coshan, CEO & Founder of UK-based Unique Block Group.

The Geeq Project is launched!

The Geeq Project introduces a new engine for blockchain validation that is far more secure and reliable than Bitcoin (Blockchain 1.0) and Ethereum (Blockchain 2.0).