The Island of Crypto
Crypto-for-crypto is a normal part of a paradigm-changing shift, it’s to be expected, and follows a natural path.
Category: thought
CBDCs – Asking the Hard Questions
I’ve been following along the CBDC narrative for a number of years. It has been fun watching how the talking points have rapidly evolved. CBDCs seem to be getting closer to reality, driven by...
Audiobook Launch – The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
Happy news! (and some insights into the mechanics of authoring and publishing a little further down the page) I’ve just been told that the audiobook version of my book “The Basics of Bitcoins and...
Please Believe My Database
I was reading Matt Levine’s Money stuff today and was struck by a thought. He writes: “A national customs agency, for instance, might be happier approving shipments on an auditable open blockchain than in...
The emergence of blockchains as Activity Registers
This post tries to describe two very different uses for blockchain technology: Digital Token Ledgers that record ownership changes of digital tokens, and Activity Registers that record timestamped proofs of existence of data or agreements...
What you get for free with blockchains
People are using blockchains for all sorts of use cases because current open source blockchain solutions give you things out of the box that you’d otherwise have to code yourself. Read more.
Big wow for blockchain collaboration amongst banks
This is a win for collaboration, blockchains and the frequently-bashed banking industry. It’s exciting enough to write about at 3am. It’s exciting because it paves the way for collaborative innovation.
On KYC and blockchains
Blockchains are being considered as a Know-Your-Customer solution. What does this really mean and are blockchains really appropriate?
The pros and cons of internal blockchains
Given that a blockchain is meant to replace a trusted external third party, or is meant to create trust between entities who don’t fully trust each other, an internal blockchain seems a contradiction in terms… At this stage of the development of the technology a legitimate answer to the question “Why use a blockchain?” may actually be “Why not?”
