I've also tried trademarkia.com but I don't find it that user friendly. Source: about 1 year ago

I have sold lot of designs in various market places and building my website and trying to see what I need to do to protect my business name / brand. I was worried that if I start making lot of sales and suddenly someone has a same name as my shop in tshirt industry I wanna be able to protect this before it gets complicated. So far, I dont see anything via trademarkia.com etc so do I need to register in my state... Source: over 1 year ago

I would guess they did go out of business from the info in the trademarkia.com listing:. Source: over 2 years ago

Also, two different companies can use the name if it is for different categories. Car tires are different categories from branding agencies. Hurry up and take the URL and then trademark it using trademarkia.com if nothing comes up in google. Source: over 3 years ago

In my day job[0], I talk to a lot of start-up ventures about blockchain. Only one was honest enough to say they were only using it because, at the time, it was easier to get funding. [0]: https://hyperledger.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Ethereum is not just currency at its core, its a smart contract platform which is used to implement distributed consensus, where each participating party sign the result, with their consensus algorithm. Currency is a side effect. You can just remove the entire ETH/gas dependency on the base, to use the platform as a distributed ledger between all the participants. And use another kind of consensus algo(proof of... Source: almost 3 years ago