Many of those my age will remember Magic: The Gathering. Part of the joy of physical card collecting was unwrapping a card that you had no idea how many other people had access to in the world. It’s possible that those cards might not ever be manufactured after a limited run, and therefore your card […]
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If You Like Decentralization, You Should Love Hard Forks
If decentralization is to realize it’s potential, various problems need to be addressed. Scalability issues get the most attention and have the most people working to solve it. So my assumption is that scalability is getting solved. The bigger issues with decentralization are Token Economics and Governance & Consensus. While people are working on those problems, it’s […]
The London Startup That Raised £800K Has Crypto Specialists on the Edge of Their Seats
Blockchain is a promising technology that many believe will widen the access to capital, and Globacap is the London startup founded on that belief. It provides end-to-end capital raising and it’s the first regulated asset tokenization platform in the UK. This blockchain startup intends to initially target the SME sector – specifically firms trying to […]
The Crypto Bloodbath isn’t a Bloodbath, it’s a …….
This is the 60th crypto related post I’ve written since I saw the crypto light on June 29th, 2017. My most read piece remains “7 Thoughts On Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & Decentralization After Three Months Down The Rabbit Hole”.The 5th thought in the piece, which tried to give context to the remarkable run-up in crypto prices […]
Making Blockchain Technology Increasingly Relevant to a Wide Audience
Blockchain technology has truly grown up and moved out of its Bitcoin parent’s house. Its potential reach across non-financial sectors is mindblowing: Imagine the possibilities of unified healthcare records for patients and doctors, or the benefits of a validated voting system during elections. These applications of blockchain technology are already in use and in development by […]
12 Interesting Crypto Thoughts From The Dissenting SEC Commissioner
As Asia (Korea, Japan, Hong Kong…) and Europe (Switzerland, Malta, Gibraltar..) work to create friendly regulatory environments for Crypto, driving innovation and investment, U.S. regulators struggle to approve the most simple of Crypto investment vehicles. The latest regulatory fail is the SEC’s decision on July 26th to deny the Winkelvoss’ bitcoin trust the ability to […]
TradeTeq Raises $6.3M Make Trade Finance Efficient
The global trade finance market is worth around $12T USD, and it’s still undergoing massive restructuring and revisioning during this exciting digital age. Tradeteq is one of the companies that is at the forefront of the digital transformation of the trade finance market. This finance distribution platform gives trade finance originators and institutional investors the […]
Blockchain Technology Applications in Fashion: Part 2
In the first article of this series, Application of Blockchain Technology in Fashion Industry, I wrote about the effects of blockchain on the pre-consumer aspects of a fashion product lifecycle. I covered the way supply chain can become transparent using blockchain products tracking on every stage of production. Blockchain can also facilitate the product authentication process […]
Blockchain Technology Applications in Fashion: Part 1
Blockchain has been a buzzword for the past few years, thanks to the rise of cryptocurrencies that are mostly built on blockchain technology. What blockchain does is essentially distributes data storage across multiple points and makes sure that each transaction or entry is being locked and secure. This makes it virtually impossible to hack or […]
A Call For US Leadership in Crypto
I work in New York, a city known for finance, in a country known for innovation. We Americans now find ourselves at a moment of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the […]