I’ve been presenting a summary of Digital Bank and ValueWeb for a few months now. It is the story of the origins of moneykind and, as many have now heard the story, I thought it’s about time to share this on the blog.
If you have half an hour free, then you can watch the presentation. It’s been filmed a few times, with the most recent decent version from Startup Turkey (excuse the shoes):
The slide deck for the presentation is here:
And the script is based upon these five blog entries:
The Origins of Moneykind, Part One: Shared Beliefs
As you all know now, this week sees the release of my new book ValueWeb. Yes, you can buy it from today on Amazon or any of the other services you use. It’s released in UK from March 15, and USA from April 7 (this is …
The Origins of Moneykind, Part Two: The Invention of Money
The Second Age of Man: The Invention of Money I’ve blogged about money being invented for sex many times before but hey, it’s a good story, so I’m going to again. So man became civilized and dominant by being able to work in groups of hundreds. …
The Origins of Moneykind, Part Three: Banking
The Third Age: The Industrial Revolution The use of money as a means of value exchange, alongside barter, lasted for hundreds of years or, to be more exact, about 4,700 years. During this time, beads, tokens, silver, gold and other commodities were used as money, …
The Origins of Moneykind, Part Four: The ValueWeb
The Fourth Age of Man: the Network Age Part of the reason for talking about the history of money in depth this week is as a backdrop to what is happening today. Money originated as a control mechanism for governments of Ancient Sumer to control …
The Next Age of Moneykind: The Future
Having covered four ages of moneykind: Barter Coins Paper Chips What could possibly be the fifth? When we are just at the start of the Internet of Things (IoT), and are building an Internet of Value (ValueWeb), how can we imagine something beyond this next …
Enjoy!
Chris M Skinner
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...
