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14 02, 2014

Ripple: The “Ultimate Wallet” at todays standards
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Ripple: The “Ultimate Wallet” at todays standards

Electronic Wallet, Next Payments, Payments, Standardisation, Updated posts

Ripple: The “Ultimate Wallet” at todays standards

jwmars2016-11-16T10:46:39+00:00February 14th, 2014|Categories: Electronic Wallet, Next Payments, Payments, Standardisation, Updated posts|Tags: Amazon, Amazon Coins, Apple, Clinkle, Collaboration Mechanism, Currency, Distributed Network, P2P, Ripple, Standardization, Utopia Wallet, Wallet, Wallet chain|

(Utopia Wallet Part III) (3 minutes reading time) In part II of this miniseries on Electronic Wallets I promised to have a look at the contours of the Ultimate “Electronic [...]

31 01, 2014

Amazon’s foray into payments: a big melting-pot of concepts
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Amazon’s foray into payments: a big melting-pot of concepts

Electronic Wallet, Marketplaces, Next Payments, Payments, Updated posts

Amazon’s foray into payments: a big melting-pot of concepts

jwmars2016-11-16T10:46:40+00:00January 31st, 2014|Categories: Electronic Wallet, Marketplaces, Next Payments, Payments, Updated posts|Tags: Amazon, Amazon Coins, Apple, Collaboration Mechanism, Consumerization, Currency, Democratization, Fragmentation, Mastercard, P2P, Payment Chain, Paypal, Wallet|

(2 minutes reading time) Since having spend some early years of my professional life in a technical wholesale company I have been following the incredible developments of Amazon with great [...]

31 03, 2013

Payments should be about democratisation not commercialisation of the internet

jwmars2016-11-16T10:46:50+00:00March 31st, 2013|Categories: Against the tide, Below the surface, Bitcoin, Next Payments, Opinion, Payments, Trends|Tags: Amazon, Amazon Coins, Apple, Bitcoin, Collaborability, Collaboration Mechanism, Democratization, Digital Money, Evolution, Facebook, Mars' Law, Paypal|

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 [...]

26 03, 2013

Amazon Coins: Fun for Amazon, not for us.

jwmars2016-11-16T10:46:51+00:00March 26th, 2013|Categories: Against the tide, Bitcoin, Next Payments, Opinion, Payments|Tags: Amazon, Amazon Coins, Bitcoin, Collaboration Mechanism, Currency, Digital Money, Disruption, Facebook, Fragmentation|

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 [...]