Top 20 Coins: Uncommon Core Podcast Episode 15
Throwing this up for discoverability: I enjoy the Uncommon Core podcast and this is a helpful episode for those looking to get a quick summary of the top coins by market cap as at...
Category: smart contracts
What Actually is Programmable Money?
Everyone seems to be interested in programmable money (and assets), but what exactly does this mean? This post explores the concept of programmable money – what is possible today, and what is possible with...
Tokens: Shares with Benefits
This short post explores some of the additional value that tokenised assets on blockchains can add, over and above pure financial return. The assets in question could be shares, or bonds, or other financial...
Tokenisation – Innovation in Capital Markets
Here’s what I think is going on with digital assets and security tokens and why it’s the most exciting thing going on in finance right now. There are two parallel streams of innovation: A...
Banking When the Bank is Shut – Token Maximalism
In this post I describe why freeing financial assets from the books of custodians and returning control of them to their owners could create significant benefits to an economy. This brings together concepts from traditional finance, cryptocurrencies, and enterprise blockchains.
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
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.
Blockchains and financial inclusion
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)...
Avoiding blockchain for blockchain’s sake: Three real use case criteria
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...
Three common misconceptions about smart contracts
There is a lot of misleading commentary about smart contracts, leading to confusion about what they are and what they can do. Here are three of the most common myths that I have noticed. This...
Distributed ledgers: “Confirm-as-you-go”
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...
