Bits on Blocks - Thoughts on blockchain technology
banking / bitcoin / blockchain / digital tokens / distributed ledgers / fintech / ICO / money / smart contracts / tokens
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains is an essential guide for anyone who needs to learn about cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and business blockchains. Written in plain English, it provides a balanced and hype-free grounding in the essential concepts behind the revolutionary technology. It is available on Amazon.
There has been a lot of hype around central banks, interbank payments, blockchains, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), but the narrative has become confusing and often misses the point. What’s going on? Actually...
banking / fintech / introductions / payments
How do banks pay each other? In most countries, when banks want to transfer money to each other, perhaps upon instruction from a customer, they don’t put bundles of banknotes in vans, they pay...
This post aims to explain the various common forms of money that exist today, and the words we use to describe them.
bitcoin / blockchain / Events / fintech
I was honoured to be invited to Brett King’s Breaking Banks podcast to talk about Bitcoins and blockchains with an Asia angle in the “BITCOIN & BLOCKCHAIN IN ASEAN” episode. Here’s a transcript.
How should incumbents, startups, and VCs think about FinTech, disruption, and blockchains?
Over Chinese New Year I read about Professor Clayton Christensen’s fascinating model for identifying and dealing with disruptive innovation, and attempt to summarise it in this post.
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