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Me on Identity

Written by admin on October 16th, 2020October 16th, 2020. 1 Comment

I was asked for a few links about identity that serve to outline my thinking on the fascinating subject of digital identity, so I put together this shortlist. I hope you find it useful. Thinking about credentials and entitlement [Forbes]. Banks and identity if you like podcasts and not reading [Financial Brand]. This is from […]

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  • You Can’t Launder Bitcoins!
    We could well see a strange and interesting twist in the world of cryptocurrency: clean and dirty money in which some bitcoins will be worth more than others! Maybe a year or two from now, exchanges will be quoted two BTC-USD pairs: clean BTC at $100,000 and dirty BTC at $75,000.
  • When The Revolution Comes, It Will Be Decentralized
    While defi is now mainly used for speculation between tokens of many varieties, in the longer term it offers the promise of reduced costs in financial intermediation by removing middlemen and automating them, it opens up the possibilities of financial instruments better suited to the new economy.
  • Forget Contactless, We’re Going Contact-Free
    Everyone uses QR codes now. There are two main reasons for this: COVID-19 and Apple. Apple changed the iPhone software so that you could scan QR codes with the camera and shortly afterwards along came a pandemic that accelerated the demand for contact-free transactions.
  • Embedded Finance? We Need Embedded Health
    A great app with great payment options doesn’t get me in to see a movie. Embedded finance is great but in the post-pandemic world, embedded health is essential. There's a fintech opportunity to bring the two together.
  • Most Blockchain Pitches I Hear Make No Sense, Yet I’m Sure That Blockchain Will Transform Business
    Many of the "blockchain" ideas I hear don't make any sense, yet I still think that the use of enterprise shared ledger (ESL) software will transform business just as much as enterprise resource planning (ERP) did a generation back.

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  • The Transparency Machine
    Most blockchain ideas that I hear about make no sense. In general, they do not involve blockchains (just some sort of shared database) and where they do actually involve blockchains they are used to emulate shared databases to deliver a … Continue reading →
  • Crime, Coins, Cryptography and the Quantum Future
    There are people who prefer to exist in a cash economy for reasons other than their negative economic analysis of central bank monetary policies or an attachment to the iconography of banknotes. Criminals and corrupt politicians, for example. Cash works … Continue reading →
  • Legal and illegal tender
    China is home to not one but two fascinating experiments in what people have taken to calling “stablecoins”. One of them is the public electronic cash system run by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), known as the Digital Currency/Electronic … Continue reading →
  • Stablecoins and Soft Power
    The Libra Association has rebranded as the Diem Association and plans to launch its first digital currency, a USD dollar “stablecoin”, early this year so it’s time to think again about the implications of stablecoins. But first of all… here’s … Continue reading →
  • Show me the money
    In the UK, a committee of MPs has said that the Bank of England should be trying to track down £50bn of “missing” UK currency. This is about three-quarters of all UK banknotes in existence! So where is all of … Continue reading →

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