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10 Feb

The Sacred and the profane

Two spheres cohabit within every society or group within societies: the Sacred, and the profane. The sacred sphere, being esoteric, wields control over mysterious powers, only accessed and enjoyed by...

21:35 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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13 Sep

Bitcoin Growing Governance Pains

Given the governance exercise happening in Montreal on September 12 and 13, see here, I thought it timely to discuss how bitcoin is governed. As a pure p2p network, the bitcoin blockchain...

08:53 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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02 Sep

Do Distributed Ledgers dream of Crypto Sheep?

If you do not follow Matt Dooley on twitter then please do so immediately. I started a conversation with him several months ago in Hong Kong and every time we interact he...

08:02 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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20 Aug

Distributed Ledgers Part IV: Internet of Value

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Successful American Investor, Omaha NE, circa end 20th century. I have written about distributed ledgers extensively recently and this post is...

09:23 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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10 Aug

Distributed Ledgers Part II: Clearing, Settlements and Legal frameworks

"At his best, man is the noblest of animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst." Aristotle. I pointed to the difficulty the bitcoin blockchain has in providing clearing...

08:12 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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04 Aug

Distributed Ledgers Part I: Bitcoin is dead

"What awaits us is never what we were awaiting" French Fintech Investor, circa July 2015, Washington DC. I uttered the words "Bitcoin is Dead" at FintechStage in Barcelona a few months...

07:41 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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11 May

Musings with Remittances II

In my previous post on remittances (see here) I concluded bitcoin or crypto platforms could play a role in the remittances space (with the necessary caveats).  I also mentioned incumbents...

08:29 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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10 May

Musings about Remittances

What with all the interest, VC investments and PR around the remittances business in the past 5 years, I decided to pore over the Q1 2015 financial results of Western...

13:02 / Uncategorized / Pascal Bouvier
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