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Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
What is Blockchain Technology? How one blockchain can have Infinite possibilities & opportunities in hand in this red ocean market world. Total Reading Time – 7-8 Minutes Some background Blockchain as on date is mystery story for many (Including my self). We have heard lot that it yields strong potential in global supply chain. It is beco...
22 September 2018
Chris Brown CTO at Trusek
Cryptocurrencies have shown the world a new way of paying for goods and transferring money using an international currency unconstrained by national boundaries and national politics. A new democratised, decentralised way of managing money. There are problems in paradise however. The current crop of cryptocurrencies are swiftly turning into an en...
20 September 2018
Retired Member
Whilst it is easy to “mourn” the loss of US$600bn in cryptocurrencies “value”, let’s pause there for a second. All the money in the world is backed by nothing but “full faith and credit” of the government that issued that money. That’s why it’s called “fiat money”. Cryptocurrencies are a form of money, but not “fiat” – as there is not even a lame...
18 September 2018 /payments
I’ve covered decentralization in my previous post. It is also important to understand another related fallacy – consensus. Consensus is the foundation of any blockchain protocol which makes the “decentralised/distributed” part of it possible. There are several core mechanisms – and their derivatives – currently in use by the crypto/blockchain commu...
16 September 2018
Priya Lakshmi Digital Leader at Own
I am a huge Apple fan and this year’s launch of Watch Series 4 (I am sold, goodbye Fitbit!) and its huge focus on health (with fall sensor and ECG on your wrist!) made me think how these innovations are now creating a digital twin of all of us. Digital twin is not a new concept, it has been there for many years and more recently has seen more adopt...
14 September 2018
Reporting is no mine, though. I’ll reproduce some insights from Pavel Kravchenko, a smart PhD founder of Distributed Labs whom I was introduced to by Dave Birch. Pavel has just returned from a trip to California where he attended a number of blockchain and crypto events. Here’s his view of where the market is going to: Large funds are still doing...
11 September 2018
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
“Out of the Blue”, and “quite in the shadow”, IBM recently introduced a new product called Blockchain World Wire. A cross-border payments system for financial institutions based on blockchain technology. This new global financial network will work on the Stellar network and will not only compete with the traditional Swift system, but could also be...
06 September 2018
Would you fly on a plane guided by a decentralised air traffic control system, even if the price was cheaper?.. Decentralisation is a term often thrown around when someone talks about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. At a recent TechCrunch event in Zug, Vitalik Buterin infamously quipped that “I definitely hope centralized exchanges go burn in hell...
05 September 2018
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
Blockchain technology is finding barriers to acceptance among global corporate institutions. Lack of trust among users represents one of the biggest hurdles to full acceptance. So what? The real problem is that blockchain-based applications make transactions immutable; hence, corporate users feel they will never be able to rectify mistakes, or, wor...
04 September 2018
After a not so short “sabbatical”, I am back at Finextra. (Thank you for the warm welcome, Steve.) To kick things off, I’ll write a series of short blog posts on the changing world of money – blockchain, stablecoin, cryptocurrencies, micropayments, ICO, STO, to name a few global macrotrends and buzzwords. Things are changing at breakneck speed. 25...
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