I finish the first day of SIBOS by returning to the innotribe tent to watch the world premiere of the film The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin. It was surprisingly well attended with a packed room of popcorn munchers and beer drinkers (no puns intended). The film is 90 minutes long and traces the origins of…
Since the Mt.Gox implosion, confidence in bitcoin has somewhat dampened, as demonstrated by its flat-lining priceline… You would think that when Dell, Baltic Air, Wikipedia, the German newspaper Taz and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) all announce that they will be taking bitcoin payments – as they all did in July – the price would jump. …
Since the Mt.Gox implosion, confidence in bitcoin has somewhat dampened, as demonstrated by its flat-lining priceline… You would think that when Dell, Baltic Air, Wikipedia, the German newspaper Taz and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) all announce that they will be taking bitcoin payments – as they all did in July – the price would jump. …
Bitcoin has gone from the leading light for the future to a flaky, shaky infrastructure. This is the result of the Mt.Gox meltdown, along with other exchanges since. In other words, the essence of bitcoin – the blockchain and the algorithms – are all perfectly fine and make eminent sense. The issue is that the…
Bitcoin has gone from the leading light for the future to a flaky, shaky infrastructure. This is the result of the Mt.Gox meltdown, along with other exchanges since. In other words, the essence of bitcoin – the blockchain and the algorithms – are all perfectly fine and make eminent sense. The issue is that the…
I keep getting into debates about bitcoin and when banks should take notice of bitcoin. C’mon. If a bank hasn’t noticed bitcoin yet, then they must be a bank completely uninterested in banking strategies. bitcoin is important, but it’s not the be-all and end-all. In fact, it is fairly irritating. It is irritating because bitcoin…
It's obvious that gamification is a game changer – apologies for the pun. Gamification is huge. The games industry is bigger than the movies these days, with Call of Duty, Halo and World of Warcraft, leading the charge but we must not forget Angry Birds, Candy Crush and the range and reach of Flappy Bird….
What amazes me about the banking system is that the banking system does not believe it needs to change. It does not believe it is being disrupted by technology. It is dismissive of many new start-ups and innovators. And it points to past performance for the reasons why. There has been no major disruption in…
I find it interesting to see so many people believing that bitcoin is dead because MTGox died. Listen: MTGox was a flaky, insecure trading platform for Bitcoins, but it isn’t bitcoin. MTGox was killed by a couple of bots called Willy and Markus, that’s how flaky MTGox was. However, the death of MTGox along with…
Building to the theme of the divide between the old world of finance and the new, and why (some) banks aren't fit for the 21st century, brings a few more points to mind, in particular about control and centralisation. Banks were built as control freaks. They need to own the complete end-to-end cycle of everything….
