Global Payments: Are we past the First Bad Pancake?
Or shall we make it plural? If everyone from SWIFT to Visa to Facebook to IBM to Unbounded to even JP Morgan...
IBM will create a payment system Blockchain World Wire based on the Stellar protocol
American technology giant IBM announced the development of a new payment system, Blockchain World Wire, which will be based on the Stellar...
Cards and Theft – Swipe, Sulk, Suffer, Repeat
Magnetic stripe, EMV or behavioural AI – when it comes to card theft, are banks barking up the wrong tree? When...
CPU to ASIC to Clouds: Crypto-miners still changing Pelotons
Processing muscle matters a lot when you need really-brute compute force for mining something as mathematics-y as crypto-currencies. Mining hardware has come...
Crypto-Bans: Let’s Kill The Strawmen
There are two ways to resolve an argument. The harder one endures
Hitting the weak...
Government on Crypto – Sounds like ‘I am Groot’
The fears can be reasonable but it would be better if regulators took a brave leap of clarity on cryptocurrencies and blockchain....
Four big misconceptions about corporate blockchains
Blockchain technology is considered revolutionary when it comes to database management and record-keeping systems. However, the emergence of any new technology is...
Crypto-Exchanges: Weight For The Trust- Go Hummers
Hacks, solvency issues, fake trading and ICO scams – the road of investor confidence is only more muddy and inhospitable for crypto...
IPO withdrawals – Canaries in a Goldmine, Bats of Recession
What happens before a storm? The birds fly away, in flocks, in a panic - yes. But before that…
D-Commerce: The Sliced Bread of Blockchain
E-commerce has brought speed, scale and a burst of options that were never possible before. Imagine what happens when decentralisation slices some...
