(Where) will the bitcoin massacre stop?
I have been looking at tradingview.com charts almost hypnotized for the last week, just to see this intriguing pattern developing before my eyes. While the rise of the bitcoin was [...]
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02, 2018
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01, 2018
Yes, Bitcoin should be considered a competitive zero-sum game
What is the essence of a zero-sum game? Wikipedia: A zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant's gain or loss of utility is exactly [...]
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01, 2018
Should Bitcoin be considered a zero-sum game?
In principle, you can use Bitcoin to pay for things electronically. Bitcoin turns out to be a clunky, slow, costly, and - due to its volatility - a very uncertain [...]
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03, 2015
Malignant Differential Pricing at POS for foreigners
While traveling to Copenhagen yesterday I was presented by the POS-terminals the option to pay my taxis and restaurant bill at the airport in the locale Danish Krona or in [...]
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03, 2015
“Unicorns vs. Horses”
Nice read and reminder that we have other options then to follow the high finance narrative: The siren call for many entrepreneurs isn’t money, it’s freedom. The freedom to chart [...]
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02, 2015
Shamefully missing from my Blog Index: Edward Snowdon
After updating my tags and looking at some of the sherds of documents littered all over my folders I found two prominent subjects I had been writing about independently from each other numerous times but which never came even close to publishing: Edward Snowdon and Self-Censorship.
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12, 2014
The sliding scale of physical and behavioral “fingerprints”
(Part II in a series on behavioral biometrics) On the side of a little inquiry I am making at the moment into the developing concept of “identity in the digital [...]
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06, 2014
A great talk on the development of the commercial internet
Various themes are combined by Maciej Ceglowski into a thoughtful, though bleak, talk on the development of the commercial internet: "The Internet with a human face" delivered at the Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference
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06, 2013
Bitcoins’ anarchistic character will be pounded into line by real world regulations
Finextra: Bitcoin exchange MT. Gox introduces account verification: In a statement on its Web site about the new verification system, MT. Gox says: "The Bitcoin market continues to evolve, as [...]
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04, 2013
Man has Trouble to Observe Complex Relationships
In an earlier post I referred to an analysis that showed the effect of lead on the development of crime in our societies. We have difficulty seeing longer term developments, [...]
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04, 2013
SEPA: a Missed Opportunity for True Payments Standardisation
With February 2014 looming around the corner and many companies scrambling to get their act together to implement SEPA in time it might be regarded as to early to start [...]
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03, 2013
Payments should be about democratisation not commercialisation of the internet
Payments are about the logistics to transfer money (value) from one to an other. Governments have long tried to control the mechanisms to pay as payments are an important part [...]
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03, 2013
Amazon Coins: Fun for Amazon, not for us.
We have a real digital currency like Bitcoins and we have seen the emergence of "pseudo money" like Amazon Coins, or Facebook Credits. These two are totally different and should [...]
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03, 2013
“Predatory pricing” is powering disruption by IT
Marco Arment has been very successful in creating Instapaper and more recently The Magazine app. Arment has been experimenting with new business models for electronic publishing. In his recent blog-post [...]
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03, 2013
Strategy is about keeping your eyes open, not ceding to the fashion of the day.
In an earlier post I indicated to have been following the "clash of the tech-titans" for some time now. I do this with a mixture of personal interest - I [...]
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03, 2013
What Google Graph will be to people, big data will be to companies
IBM CEO Rometty says that "Big Data Are the Next Great Natural Resource": “With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will in fact see the death of [...]
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03, 2013
Trend “schaalverkleining” hakt er in bij consultancy bedrijven
Internet leidt tot schaalvergroting, schaalbaarheid én schaalverkleining In "The World is Flat" schetst Thomas Friedman een wereld waarin de letterlijke en figuurlijke grenzen door nieuwe technologie worden afgebroken. Het effect [...]
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03, 2013
Anoniem in de kantoortuin van het “nieuwe werken”
Ik ben geen fan van het "nieuwe werken" en met name niet van de kantoortuin welke overal een onvermijdelijk deel uitmaakt van dit met bravoure verkondigde concept. En dit terwijl [...]
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03, 2013
Back to the excesses of early industrial age or guided distribution of wealth?
(translation 4 march 2014; "Terug naar excessen van vroeg-industriële tijd of naar geleide welvaartsverdeling?") One of the consequences of technological innovation is, not as you might think, the simple service [...]
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03, 2013
Tokenization is fundamental shift: 4 corner model is dead
One of the cornerstones of my speech at the conference on the Future of Payments in June 2012 (Amsterdam), which I delivered on behalf of Enigma Consulting, was that the [...]
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03, 2013
The commercial Internet has far-reaching social consequences
(This post has been translated from Dutch original 29 Jan 2014, "Het commerciële internet heeft verstrekkende maatschappelijke consequenties" original text included below) Michael Fertik CEO of Reputation.com has written a [...]
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03, 2013
Turning the SEPA switch in Feb. 2014? Miracles do not exist.
[Translation of original post] In the course of time Chris Skinner has worked his way up to become the uber-blogger of the European payments world. Also today an interesting article: [...]
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03, 2013
Van zitten, naar staan, naar lopen achter je bureau
Sinds 2011 sta ik als het even kan te werken achter mijn bureau. Het begon bij een klant die in hoogte verstelbare bureaus had en waar ik een opdracht deed [...]
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02, 2013
Het “nieuwe werken” werkt niet.
Forbes: How Multitasking Hurts Your Brain (and Your Effectiveness at Work) Hoe langer ik in de nieuwe kantoortuinen werk hoe meer het me verbaast dat er niemand in opstand komt. [...]