Bits on Blocks - Thoughts on blockchain technology
This short post gives an overview on how blockchains could impact financial inclusion and “banking the unbanked”. There are two parts to this: Financial inclusion: who counts as unbanked? (it’s not just poor people)...
2016 was the year of creating frameworks and filters to determine if a business problem was worthy of a blockchain-based solution. Often, the frameworks would declare inappropriate potential use cases as ripe for blockchaining, as the...
Currently a number of central banks around the world are exploring two things: A decentralised interbank payment system A central bank digital currency Though often conflated, these are slightly different concepts. You can decentralise...
Following on from the “Blockchain is a solution looking for a problem” narrative of 2016, distributed ledger technology has evolved. Distributed ledgers – databases with shared control over what and how data is added...
Q&A with George Samman, co-author of KPMG’s report: “Consensus: Immutable agreement for the Internet of value” This interview is posted on both http://www.sammantics.com and http://www.bitsonblocks.net. Interviewer is Antony Lewis (AL) and interviewee is George Samman...
I have heard this comment many times: “Blockchain” is a solution looking for a problem. That is incorrect – here’s the problem statement, originally articulated in 2008: The problem statement, to paraphrase, is “How...
This article attempts to explain the difference between the revolutionary disruptive innovation of Bitcoin and the evolutionary efficiency innovations of industry workflow tools, and why calling them both “blockchains”, even as a generic term, is incredibly confusing.
Bits on Blocks by Antony Lewis is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
