Contours of the “Utopia Wallet”
(4 minutes reading time) Picking up the glove I threw in front of myself in my previous post on Clinkle to describe “the contours of the ultimate payment method” I [...]
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01, 2014
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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
What would be the contours of the ultimate electronic wallet?
(4 minutes reading time) Basically we only know a few things about Clinkle. Firstly it is a payments start-up based in San-Francisco promising “something that’s fundamentally different from everything else [...]
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01, 2014
Reflecting on a year of blogging
(3 min. read) The oldest post on Red Planet Dust is dated Februari 6, 2013. This post will constitute the 125th in a very divers row, just 3 weeks shy [...]
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01, 2014
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 [...]
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01, 2014
What is “digital money”? Or what is money in the digital age?
(4 min. read) FinExtra today covers the introduction of the MintChip in Canada: “Royal Canadian Mint demos digital currency.” Questions arise: why are we talking currency here? what is “digital [...]
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11, 2013
Market efficiency of bitcoin trading still a long way off
My bitcoin wallet address Earlier this year I bought a fraction of a bitcoin. Getting a bitcoin wallet app (Blockchain) was easy enough. Getting it loaded with bitcoin [...]
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07, 2013
Suggested Reading: Interesting Articles Roundup dd. 05-07-2013
With this regularly returning blog-post I list the articles used in Red Planet Dust posts (non this episode) and cross publish articles I have flipped at Flipboard for your enjoyment: [...]
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06, 2013
Suggested Reading: roundup dd. 07-06-2013
Many Red Planet Dust posts contain links to - in my view - very interesting articles and video's from all over the web. Most of the times I only link [...]
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06, 2013
The interconnected world brings good as well as bad…
In a side line of this Mondays post on the way governments will enforce their interest - while hopefully representing us citizens for the better - in this interconneceted epoque: [...]
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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
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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05, 2013
To break out of the recursive circle on “collaborability” I need to collaborate!
In yesterdays post I indicated that I have to overcome myself if I want to create the foundations for my theory on “collaborability” and to translate this theory to practical [...]
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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
Standardization is an evolutionary process
New standards are building on past achievements, introducing improvements for further evolution. Standardisation is in a way standing on each others shoulders. Successful iterations of standardization commands, almost by it [...]
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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
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
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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04, 2013
Crypto-Currency Part 1: Introduction
While aware of bitcoin for some time being professionally involved in payments, my interest in bitcoin was triggered when I had the opportunity to discuss bitcoin backgrounds and developments with [...]
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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 [...]