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The British Blockchain Association
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Official Nostr account of the BBA. Advancing evidence-based adoption of Blockchain. Authored UK's National Blockchain Roadmap. Est. in 2017.
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📍Yesterday: medical and genetic data of 500,000 UK citizens listed for sale in China.

📍Today: Data of 300,000 passports leaked and "offered for sale on the dark web".

⏩⏩ We need a technology that:

→ Puts citizens in control of their own data

→ Uses decentralised identifiers and verifiable credentials

→ Secures access through cryptography, not database permissions

→ Makes mass theft mathematically unviable

Oh, wait.

That technology exists.

It’s called blockchain.


The question is no longer whether the technology works. It’s how much more of our data we’re willing to lose before we deploy it.


#Blockchain #DigitalIdentity #SelfSovereignIdentity #CyberSecurity






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🚨 BREAKING: Confidential health data of 500,000 UK Biobank participants have been listed for sale in China.

Technology Minister Ian Murray confirmed the breach to the House of Commons this morning.

One of Britain’s landmark scientific programmes and half a million volunteers who trusted the system.

It has collected intimate details - including whole body scans, #DNA sequences and their medical records - from hundreds of thousands of volunteers for over two decades. The project has led to more than 18,000 scientific publications.

⏩⏩ This is exactly why we need Bio-banks on the #Blockchain.

The British Blockchain Association has been advocating for #genetic and #bio-bank data to be secured via distributed ledger technology since 2018. Our peer-reviewed evidence base, published in the JBBA, sets out the architecture:

→ Tamper-evident audit trails
→ Patient-controlled consent
→ Cryptographic access logs
→ Immutable provenance

Centralised repositories of sensitive biological data are systemically fragile. The question was never if they would be breached - only when.

Swipe through for the evidence base ↓


#Blockchain #HealthData #UKBiobank #GenomicSecurity #JBBA #BBA #DataSovereignty #EvidenceBasedPolicy








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🇴🇲 New JBBA citation from College Of Banking & Financial Studies كلية الدراسات المصرفية والمالية , Muscat.

⏩ Original JBBA paper cited here:

'Academic Certification using Blockchain: Permissioned versus Permissionless Solutions' by Professor Carlos Castro Iragorri of Universidad del Rosario.
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/13618-academic-certification-using-blockchain-permissioned-versus-permissionless-solutions

#JBBA #Citation #Blockchain





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📍Studying Blockchain or Crypto in #Japan? 🇯🇵

Planning to submit your work to the JBBA?

🎓 Meet JBBA's senior editor Professor Mark Fenwick, professor of International #Business Law and Blockchain, and the author of many blockchain papers, books and the JBBA article:

"Decentralisation is Coming: The Future of Blockchain":

https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/10236-decentralisation-is-coming-the-future-of-blockchain

Prof Fenwick's profile:
https://kyushu-u.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/mark-fenwick/

JBBA Editorial Board:
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/editorial-board

#Blockchain #Japan #JBBA #CEBB #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #DLT #Crypto #Decentralisation #DeFi #FinTech #Law #Economics






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🌍 Today is Earth Day. This year’s theme, ‘Our Power, Our Planet’, highlights the difference we can make when we work together.

📚 Since 2018, the BBA has championed the role of blockchain in tackling some of the defining environmental challenges of our time — climate change, green finance, carbon markets, and ecosystem accountability.

Our position has remained consistent:

➡️ Net zero commitments must be provable, not merely asserted.

➡️ Carbon credits must be verifiable, not double-counted.

➡️ Climate finance must be traceable, not lost in institutional friction.

🔗 Blockchain is the convergent infrastructure that makes all three possible — immutable provenance, continuous auditability, and programmable disbursement of climate funds.

✍🏽 The JBBA has published peer-reviewed evidence on carbon markets, supply-chain traceability, blue economy tokenisation, and ESG reporting. Our parliamentary engagement continues to place these questions at the centre of the UK’s climate and technology policy conversation.

🌍 The planet does not need more pledges. It needs better infrastructure for the pledges we have already made.

⏩⏩ Swipe to learn more about our work 👇


#EarthDay #OurPowerOurPlanet #BBA #JBBA #Blockchain #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #GreenFinance #NetZero #ClimateAction










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"..Her Majesty was interested to learn that the publication is the first open access blockchain research journal available both in print and online.

👑 Yesterday would have marked the 100th birthday of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Her Majesty’s reign spanned the birth of the digital age — from the transistor to tokenisation. That she engaged, even briefly, with the evidence base of an emerging technology in the final years of a seven-decade reign speaks to the curiosity and discipline that defined her service.

Between 2018 and 2022, Her Majesty received each new edition of the Journal of the British Blockchain Association at Buckingham Palace and later at Windsor Castle.

In November 2021, the reply noted that Her Majesty “was interested to learn that this is the 4th issue which has been published during the pandemic.”

On behalf of the BBA, the JBBA editorial board, and our global community of contributors — we remembered her with respect and gratitude.

#QueenElizabethII #BritishBlockchainAssociation #JBBA










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📍An AI Philosophy and Cognitive Sovereignty Framework

✍🏽 New ground-breaking essay from Prof. Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE FBBA, published in The #JBBA.

➡️ Key explorations:

✅ Why cognitive sovereignty belongs on the national policy agenda alongside economic and data sovereignty

✅ Why our national strategies are failing to protect faculties such as pre-observational judgement

✅ What machines cannot do, and the coming scarcity of original thinkers and philosophers

✅ Why the machines will eventually come to philosophers for the questions their own logic cannot answer

✅ Why original writers, speakers, and thinkers will be indispensable in the age of synthetic prose

✅ Why the next generation of universities will quietly divide in two, and why PhDs will matter again

✅ The architecture of education, and why we are optimising for the wrong metric

✅ Why pedigree cannot be synthesised. AI will not produce more philosophers. Only philosophers produce more philosophers.

⏩ The essay introduces a new concept:

Pre-observational Judgement

The capacity to decide what is worth noticing BEFORE any data exists. It is the oldest form of human intelligence, and the one most resistant to automation.

⛓️‍💥 The essay also repositions blockchain as an epistemological tool.

Original thought is fragile. An economy that cannot reliably say who first said what will watch its best minds either give up or leave. AI produces plausible answers without origin. Blockchain records origin without distortion.

🏛️ A national AI policy without a national philosophy policy is half a strategy.


🔗 Link to the full essay in the comments.


#AI #Blockchain #Cognitive #Sovereignty #PreObservationalJudgement #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #JBBA #BBA #AIneedsBlockchain





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https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/160826-cognitive-sovereignty-and-pre-observational-judgement-a-research-agenda-and-policy-framework-to-safeguard-original-thought-in-the-age-of-machines
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📍New JBBA citation from Department of International Trade and Finance at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

⏩ Original JBBA paper cited here:

"The Relation between Tokens and Blockchain Networks: The Case of Medical Tourism in the Republic of Moldova" (The JBBA, 2021) by Marc Pilkington FBBA:
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/18156-the-relation-between-tokens-and-blockchain-networks-the-case-of-medical-tourism-in-the-republic-of-moldova

#JBBA #Citation #Tourism #Hospitality