📍BBA Forum July: Healthcare on the Blockchain 📍 Medical fraud costs $250B+ annually — Blockchain can reduce this. 📍30% of global healthcare data is inaccurate or siloed. 📍3 out of 4 patients want control over their own health records. 🏥 From Tokenised Medical Research to Patient-Owned Data — the next frontier of health innovation is Decentralised Healthcare on the Blockchain. 📅 Join us on 9 July 2025 at 4:00 PM (UK) for the BBA Forum, where industry pioneers will explore how Blockchain is reshaping data ownership, trust, and digital health infrastructure. 🎙️ Featuring: ✅ Dr Burhan Ahmed Ahmed (CEO, BlockMed Pro) ✅ Prof Dr Marc Pilkington FBBA (JBBA Associate Editor in Chief and BBA Fellow) ✅ Chrissa McFarlane (CEO, Patientory, Inc. ) ✅ Dr Sean Manion FBBA, JBBA Editor and BBA Fellow ✅ Prof. Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE FBBA (President, @The British Blockchain Association) ✅ Moderator: Deborah Jane Cleary, BBA Secretariat Join Online: 🌐 Zoom Meeting ID: 872 3105 8220 🔐 Passcode: 318143 #Blockchain #Healthcare #Tokenisation #Research #Trials #Decentralised #MedicalRecords #Web3 #BBA #JBBA #CEBB

🚨 10 striking similarities between the 🇺🇸 U.S. Blockchain Act 2025 and the 🇬🇧 UK Blockchain Roadmap 2021: 1️⃣ Mandate Transparent Progress Reviews: 🇺🇸 "Require annual public reporting on blockchain adoption metrics, risks, use cases, and legislative gaps" 🇬🇧 UK NBR 15: "Conducting regular evaluations and audit of blockchain programmes, "and 8: "Foster Evidence-informed policies.." 2️⃣ 🏛️ Leadership & Governance: 🇺🇸 "Establish new Blockchain & DLT Subcommittee and mandates the creation of a multi-stakeholder National Blockchain Deployment Advisory Committee." 🇬🇧 UK NBR 7: "Establish Sub-Speciality Steering Groups (SSGs)." 3️⃣ 🏢 Establish Public Sector Use Cases: 🇺🇸 "Encourages blockchain deployment across identity management, procurement, records verification, healthcare, logistics, and more." 🇬🇧 UK NBR 11: “Blockchain for Public Services” and 2: "Build a public repository of successfully blockchain use cases.." 4️⃣ 📑 Standards & Interoperability: 🇺🇸 "Define technical standards, interoperability protocols, risk frameworks, and secure infrastructure models in coordination with stakeholders." 🇬🇧 UK NBR 5: "Agree upon Taxonomy of Evidence, Frameworks and Standards" 5️⃣ 🌐 Global Competitiveness & Cooperation: 🇺🇸 The Act "positions blockchain as strategically vital and supports U.S. participation in international standard-setting and policy harmonisation." 🇬🇧 UK NBR 13: " International Partnerships: Garner support through collaboration with other countries.." 6️⃣ 📊 Best Practices, Reporting & Oversight: 🇺🇸 "Mandates annual progress reporting to Congress and the publication of guidelines and cost-benefit evaluations to support evidence-based blockchain deployment." 🇬🇧 UK NBR 3: "Establish measures to Audit the societal impact of Blockchain applications.." 7️⃣ Develop Multi-Stakeholder Implementation Roadmaps: 🇺🇸 "involve academia, SMEs, public agencies, and civil society to shape national blockchain frameworks and ensure diversity of input..." 🇬🇧 UK NBR Recommendation 1: "Foster 'Quadruple Helix' blockchain ecosystem (Government - Academia - Industry - Society) 8️⃣ Focus on "Public Value": 🇺🇸 To fund pilots in healthcare, supply chains, digital ID, education, and financial infrastructure to generate measurable public value. 🇬🇧 UK NBR 11: "Utilise the potential of Blockchain for Government and Public Services" 9️⃣ 🇺🇸 "Invest in Capacity Building": 🇬🇧 UK NBR 9: "Commit resources to generate and deploy quality evidence and 10: "Direct resources to programmes backed by evidence". 🔟 📈 Industry Growth & Workforce Development: 🇺🇸 "Prioritises a future-ready workforce, with an emphasis on blockchain education, training, and public–private talent pipelines.." 🇬🇧 UK NBR 16: "Establish a long-term Roadmap for industry growth and workforce planning" #UK #Blockchain #Roadmap #US #NBR #Crypto #Policy #Bitcoin #EvidenceBasedBlockchain

📍Imagine losing your job today. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Could you sustain yourself and pay your bills on just your #DAO earnings? 📊 Research from The Journal of the British Blockchain Association #JBBA sheds light: 📉 Only 4% earn over $10,000/month 💸 81% of DAO workers earn less than $5,000/month 💼 50% don’t rely on DAO income as their primary source 👩‍💼 Millennials are the most ready to embrace DAO work. 🌐 DAOs may shape the future of work—but are they stable enough to replace a traditional paycheck? 👇 What are your thoughts: Would you work for a DAO? ------- ✍🏽 JBBA Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE FBBA 🌐 The JBBA is the world's first and only research journal that publishes peer-reviewed research infographics in easy-to-understand plain English summaries for #policymakers and non-tech readers. #DAO #Blockchain #Web3Workforce #DecentralisedEconomy #FutureOfWork #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #JBBA #DigitalAssets #Job #Growth #Economy #LabourEconomics #Crypto

📍Paying for a 🍔 burger using #Bitcoin at Florida's Steak n Shake: 📸 Yes — this is a real receipt: ✔️ Payment made on Bitcoin Lightning Network ✔️ 13,612 Sats ($1 USD = 912 Satoshis) ✔️ Almost zero fees ✔️ Instant confirmation ✔️ Final settlement ✔️ Peer-to-Peer 🌐 Bitcoin’s Layer 2 infrastructure is quietly building a parallel, permissionless payment rail — already in use. The future of money doesn’t need a card reader. #Blockchain

🚕 Would you ride a blockchain-powered Uber or a self-driving Taxi — if it cost less, accepted fares in stablecoins, worked offline, and rewarded you with crypto-based micro-subsidies? ➡️ What if it gave you cheaper rides, protected your data, and worked peer-to-peer — even without a smartphone? This isn’t the future. It’s already here. 📍A decentralised, low-latency transport infrastructure — built on blockchain — could be the missing layer for solving real-world problems in cities across the Global South: • 💸 Automated, fair fare collection • 🌍 Micro-subsidies and credit for the unbanked • 🔐 Trusted data, roaming, and offline access • 🌿 Congestion & pollution reduction through mass-transit enablement 🌐 Backed by the World Bank, EBRD, and WEF, and highlighted in the #JBBA, this infrastructure isn’t about crypto — it’s about equity, efficiency, and economic opportunity. 🧠 Time for policymakers and transport innovators to think beyond tickets - Think Tokens. 🚝 Blockchain for Transport is no longer a ‘what if’ — it’s a ‘what next’. 🏛️ Infographics from BBA's Centre for Evidence-Based Blockchain #CEBB based on research published in the Journal of The BBA in 2019 - relevant now more than ever before. ✍🏽 JBBA Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE FBBA 🔗 #BlockchainForPublicGood #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #DigitalTransport #Web3Infrastructure #SmartCities #CryptoPolicy #DigitalInclusion #BBA #GlobalDevelopment #SmartMobility #JBBA #DecentralisedSolutions

🚨 What if Blockchain Could Power Smart Factories Without Draining Energy? 🏭 A new consensus model makes that a reality. ⚙️ Forget PoW and PoS — Here Comes READ-HC for the Industrial IoT Era: A Secure, scalable, and energy-aware blockchain model for Industry 4.0. 🚀 NEW JBBA Research Alert: ➡️ Reputation and Energy-Aware Dynamic Hybrid Consensus (READ-HC) Model for Industrial IoT (#IIoT) 🔑 Key Takeaways for #Industry and #Policymakers: ➡️ Problem Addressed: ⛓️‍💥Traditional #blockchain consensus mechanisms (like Proof of Work or Proof of Stake) are too energy-intensive and slow for real-time, mission-critical environments like Industrial IoT (IIoT). Centralised models, meanwhile, suffer from single points of failure. 📍 Solution Proposed: The READ-HC model — a novel blockchain consensus mechanism that intelligently combines: ✅ PBFT (for security and fault tolerance), ✅ Proof of Reputation (prioritising trustworthy nodes), and ✅ Energy-aware participation (minimising energy waste). ➡️ Why It Matters: 💡 Scalability: Supports thousands of IIoT devices with low latency (50–100 ms), even under constrained bandwidth. 🔋 Energy Efficiency: Reduces energy consumption by up to 70% compared to Proof of Work and 40% compared to PBFT. 🔐 Security: Effectively mitigates Sybil, replay, and sensor injection attacks through a dynamic reputation-based system. 📈 Performance: Achieves up to 3000 transactions/sec, with up to 90% fault tolerance in simulations involving malicious nodes. 📍Industry Readiness: ✅ Compatible with common IIoT protocols (OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus) ✅ Easily integrates with legacy industrial systems without major infrastructure overhaul 📍 POLICY Implications: ✅ Encourages energy-conscious blockchain standards in industrial settings. ✅ Provides a blueprint for secure-by-design data infrastructures for smart factories, logistics, and critical infrastructure. ✅ Reinforces the need for reputation and compliance-driven participation in digital infrastructure layers. 🧠 This research represents a step forward for energy-efficient, secure, and scalable blockchain adoption in the industrial sector — without sacrificing performance or interoperability. ✍🏽 From Sristi Mitra, et al of Kadir Has University, #Turkiye. 🔗 Read the full paper in the Journal of the British Blockchain Association (JBBA): ➡️

Reputation and Energy-Aware Dynamic Hybrid Consensus (READ-HC) Model for IIoT | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By Sristi Mitra, Vaishnavi Santosh Sable & 1 more. This article introduces a novel blockchain-based Reputation and Energy-Aware Dynamic Hybrid Cons...

🌐 This paper will be featured in the upcoming 16th issue of The JBBA (Oct 2025). This paper was first presented as an Abstract at the BBA's 7th Blockchain International Scientific Conference London #ISC2025. 🎓JBBA Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr @Prof Naseem Naqvi MBE MBE FBBA #Blockchain #IIoT #DigitalInfrastructure #Web3 #SmartFactories #JBBA #CyberSecurity #EnergyEfficiency #UKBlockchain #ResearchToPolicy #ConsensusMechanism #EvidenceBasedBlockchain

🇺🇸 With the U.S House of Representatives passing the American Blockchain Act, the number of countries with a dedicated national-level Blockchain Roadmap/ strategy/ policy/ Act has now reached 15. From the UK to Nigeria, Australia to the USA, governments are formalising Blockchain policy as a core pillar of their digital economic growth. It’s no longer a question of if other governments will act — but how fast they can catch up. The global race is on. #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #CryptoPolicy #Web3 #NationalStrategy #DigitalEconomy #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #JBBA #Crypto #BlockchainRegulation #DigitalTransformation

📍Your blockchain app just got hacked. Sensitive data leaked. Smart contract exploited. Millions lost. Who do you turn to for answers? This 6-year-old peer-reviewed study from the Journal of the British Blockchain Association explored exactly this: ✅ Blockchain security frameworks and your Blockchain investigative "Toolbox" ✅ Governance models ✅ Risk mitigation strategies ✅ Incident response protocols Still relevant — now more than ever. #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #Cybersecurity #SmartContracts #Web3 #DeFi #Crypto #Blockchain #JBBA #DigitalAssets #DataSecurity #BlockchainRisk

🌐 Countries are now shaping national blockchain strategies based on peer-reviewed research and real-world impact data. ➡️ Are you building the foundations of the #Web3 digital economy on evidence, meta-analysis, and national policy guidelines? This is where credibility meets innovation. #EvidenceBasedBlockchain | #JBBA | #Crypto | #Web3 | #Blockchain | #DigitalEconomy | #PolicyDrivenInnovation

US National Blockchain Roadmap on its way..