MintChip/Bitcoin: no processor role between payer and payee
(3 min. read) Yesterdays post dealt with MintChip, the new Canadian digital currency based on a secure element on a chip to make payments. The novelty of this scheme is [...]
(3 min. read) Yesterdays post dealt with MintChip, the new Canadian digital currency based on a secure element on a chip to make payments. The novelty of this scheme is [...]
"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 [...]
(2 min. read) With the start of the new year it is my intention, no my vow, to publish "Collaborability; a theory of human collaboration" as a free eBook this [...]
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 [...]
One of the things that has always intrigued me immensely is how companies can operate while not a single person in that particular company has a full apprehension of what [...]
A regularly recurring theme at Red Planet Dust is the impact of IT-driven trends on decision-making and robosourcing, marketplaces and exchanges. "High Frequency Trading" is an exemplary example were technology [...]
The starting point of my inquiry into collaborability is mega trends are influencing the way we collaborate big time. It will also influence the way our economy is structured; hence [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. ... [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]