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PYMNTS Talk Back: The Bitcoin Breakdown

PYMNTS

.” For fear of being shamed publicly, no one is willing to speak up and acknowledge that there’s no real “there-there” when it comes to its use as anything other than the currency of crime and speculation – even though deep down, they know that the emperor has no clothes. “Few people speak out. Technology Consultant.

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I’m not keeping an open mind about Bitcoin, and nor is the government

Tomorrow's Transactions

They’re not: they are keeping an open mind about the blockchain, and that’s much more interesting. Before I say anything more about Bitcoin, let me make it quite clear that Consult Hyperion is carrying out paid professional services work for financial institutions in connection with Bitcoin. His position is quite understandable.

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The bastard child of the blockchain and the internet of things: the identiverse

Tomorrow's Transactions

The relationship between the blockchain and the internet of things may turn out to be especially rich because the blockchain means that the virtual world can be constrained to be like the physical world. Eric is talking an aspect of the blockchain that we at Consult Hyperion find fascinating. Guaranteed. They can’t.

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Will the Blockchain Economy run on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Central Bank Digital Currency?

Lex Sokolin

The vectors of change for software and money remain deeply anchored to the fractal of blockchain. The price of the cryptocurrency rose to over $15,000, breaking again the $250 billion market capitalization barrier. Those nodes are financial or economic in nature, and speak in the language of money?—?banks, The election’s end?—?and

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Banks and blockchains and clouds, oh my

Tomorrow's Transactions

The kind people at Barclays invited me along to their “Distributed Banking” workshop to explore some new possibilities around the blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital identity, cloud computing and such like. Maybe this is where banks can find a role in the new economy. a pseudonym). a pseudonym).

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, MEMX CEO Jonathan Kellner said the exchange is “prepared to be aggressive and lose money on every transaction to get people to participate.”. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size. INITIAL COIN OFFERINGS.