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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
With February 2014 looming around the corner and many companies scrambling to get their act together to implement SEPA in time it might be regarded as to early to start [...]
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 [...]
Whenever I talk to people within the payments industry about Bitcoin the absence of a central issuer and the regulatory void it is operating in will be one of the [...]
Whether Bitcoin will hit the mainstream still remains to be seen, but if it wants to it has to become much more easy to be set up and used. Setting [...]
One of the developing themes on Red Planet Dust is the way our personal and company decision-making is being influenced and even replaced by software. We are getting more dependent [...]
[translation original post] Bitcoins are like digital paper banknotes without the paper (NB Paper banknotes are numbered, coins are not numbered, bitcoins ARE numbers). An oxymoron seemingly, but it is [...]