(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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03, 2015
From EDI to API
Over the last two decades we have seen accelerating proliferation of electronic interchanges between the primary partners in transactional value chains. Initially these Electronic Data Interchanges (EDI) as they were [...]
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01, 2014
Why Bitcoin Matters – NYTimes.com
Sometimes you are made aware of an article very worthwhile (Thank you Henk!). Marc Andreessen (from Andreessen Horowitz) has written a pretty balanced and informative piece on Bitcoin (BTC) via [...]
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01, 2014
Can development of photography teach us something more broadly?
"Light at the end of the tunnel, but what lays around the corner?" iPhone 5s (3 min. read) As many people I frequently visit a fair amount of [...]
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12, 2013
Phising has come a long way…
As everybody else living on the web I have received phishing mails for years and years. Not very many, they seem to come in waves. Initially these mails were so [...]
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06, 2013
From location dependent, to device dependent, to device independent
Just a few weeks ago I referred to how the mass adoption of mobile has had its impact on "collaborability". The crux of the addition of mobile was that we [...]
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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
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
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
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
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
Standardisation: An Underrated but Very Effective Form of Collaboration
Most people are not aware about the staggering amount of standardisations that is scoping their lives. Most probably you are reading this post on some sort of electronic device that [...]
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04, 2013
Two Seemingly Unrelated Articles at Flipboard
In a matter of 2 minutes I was presented two seemingly unrelated articles on Flipboard Technology section yesterday. Rather small news items as we have seen them before, so nothing [...]
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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
When Will Virtual Reality Become (Indistinguishable from) Reality?
The borders between reality and virtual reality are getting blurred ever more. Ealier on Red Planet Dust I postulated: The technology, which is necessary for Augmented Reality develops quickly. ... [...]
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03, 2013
Unified devices, synching apps. (collaboration next?)
In an earlier post I pointed to an undercurrent tech trend I dubbed "unified devices" for lack of better terminology at hand: a reality where users can pick up any [...]
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03, 2013
Dropbox acquiring Mailbox could signal serious development in tech
For those who use Dropbox it is synonymous with seamless file synching and sharing over multiple devices. Mailbox is a very recently launched email-client - Gmail centric for the time [...]
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03, 2013
Trend of scaling down hits wall of regulations
Marketplaces enable individuals and small business to offer products and services to a wider audience in a structured manner as ever before. Laws and regulations are not always designed to [...]
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03, 2013
Marketplaces as driver for scalability
With a background in wholesale I have followed the development of marketplaces on the internet with a keen eye. Marketplaces are instrumental in the emancipation of the individual or small [...]