Uber and the future of Banks
Every month ABNAmro organizes “Startup Friday” meetings. I have been attending several of these meet-ups lately. Two months ago it was about “Behavioral Biometrics” which led me to write a [...]
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02, 2015
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08, 2014
Contactless payments are not used by Dutch payers at all
Everywhere, and literally every time I use the facility the employee behind the counter is total stunned that this capability exists and actually operational. Maybe 25% knew the facility was present the others did not even know it existed. If I may use the explanations of counterparts as survey input I have been the first to use it at every location without a flaw since early this year.
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03, 2014
Why to worry even more about service throttling by Google then Facebook
Search is basic to the Internet and to be considered a utility function. Without „search” no find. "Degraded links" are hurting society as a whole and should be banned.
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06, 2013
“If you only look at your dashboard while driving, you will crash”
In the early stages of Red Planet Dust I posted on my views on strategy and decision making in companies regularly. With Collaborability becoming more prevalent at Red Planet Dust [...]
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06, 2013
How to defeat the blogs’ timeline?
With starting Red Planet Dust I had multiple objectives but without having a clear goal or format in mind. One of my objectives was to gain first hand experience to [...]
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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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05, 2013
Half-Baked SEPA CSM interoperability: next steps needed
For those who are not initiated in SEPA or in CSM interoperability lets first dissect the title of this post. You can find a short synopsis here on: What is [...]
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05, 2013
Process orientation of SEPA Direct Debit is biggest challenge to functionally orientated businesses
With the end-date of local payment formats in February 2014 looming around the corner I have started to evaluate the SEPA endeavour. The first part was published at April 3 [...]
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05, 2013
Shocker: I Find Google Much More Interesting Then Apple!
Some of today's technological and economical trends culminate in the battle between Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Samsung and some of the other well known tech giants. I have been following [...]
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05, 2013
Bitcoin transactions explained
To make bitcoin payments or receive bitcoins the payer and payee both need to have a bitcoin wallet (at a connected computer) at their disposal and the payer the necessary [...]
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04, 2013
Download Paper “Bitcoin’s legacy and the crypto-currency promise”
Now, with the media hype about bitcoin residing a little over the last two weeks it is time to get into the reflective mode. Today Leika Consult releases the first [...]
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04, 2013
Money as Mechanism for Implicit Collaborability
(This is part 6 of a series of posts that will be bundled in apaper on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1) We need to understand our [...]
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04, 2013
For most companies using “standardization” as a business strategy does not come natural
The relevance, let alone the power of standardization is only understood by a limited degree - if at all - by most companies. Even companies that are totally dependent on [...]
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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
Will the SEPA payments network become a distributed network ever?
Yesterday, I attended a conference of EACHA, the European Association of Automatic Clearing Houses (in SEPA parlance CSM’s: Clearing and Settlement Mechanisms) in Berlin. This is a group of payments [...]
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04, 2013
Money and Payments are Essential Part of Human Collaboration
With all the attention to money and payments related topics here at Red Planet Dust lately I feel inclined to explain how this fits in with the theme of this [...]
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04, 2013
Robosourcing: software deciding what we think, how we act, when we do and where we are
A regular theme on Red Planet Dust is about how the increasing capabilities of software are influencing the way we make decisions as persons and as companies. How these capabilities [...]
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04, 2013
Bitcoin Represents the Ultimate Commodity
The first misconception covered in this series is Felix Salmons’ notion of trust in general and trust in the interconnected world. The next misconception I want to address is Felix [...]
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04, 2013
From Barter Trade to Bitcoin in 5 Logical Steps
What we today perceive as money is the result of thousands of years of evolution. And looking at history, why we would be the “lucky guys” to live in the [...]
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04, 2013
Regarding The Use of Trust in “The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency”
The article of Felix Salmon ”The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency” triggered me to write a series of posts on Crypto-currency at Red Planet Dust (see part 1). [...]
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04, 2013
Your Behaviour will Haunt You in Big Data Driven Job Application Assesments
Big data will push out human factor more and more in decision-making. An interesting quote from the economist article "How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects?" underlines [...]
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04, 2013
Trust in an Inter-connected World
(This is part 3 of an article on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1, Part 2) Human collaboration is based on trust. We do not have a [...]
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04, 2013
What is Digital Currency?
(This is part 2 of an article on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1) Many call Bitcoin “digital money” but not all types of digital money are [...]
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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 [...]