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...
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...
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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
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...
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...
