Tokenisation of financial assets provides a new transaction layer on top of the nation state stack layers of governance, regulation, and...

On Monday night I went to see “ A Complete Unknown ”, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have been reading the avalanche of reviews and...

I am fascinated by the adoption of new technologies, especially in financial services, which is where I have spent the vast majority of...

First we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. Money is one of those tools, and one that is in the process of being...

“ETFs are step one in the technological revolution in the financial markets; step two is going to be the tokenization of every financial...

This is the final article in a commitment device / series that I proposed a while ago, "How to think about blockchains". The first five...

This is the fifth article in my ongoing "How to Think About Blockchains" series. The introduction, with links to the others, is here. On...

Chapter 4 in a series "How to Think About Blockchains". This is the fourth chapter in an ongoing series. The first was about how we think...

Tokenised money is here, and further developments and adoption of it are inevitable. If you look for the signs, then the same is true of...

Chapter 3 in a series "How to Think About Blockchains". The first thing blockchains disrupted was money. Understanding what money is and...

Chapter 2 in a series "How to Think About Blockchains" On 31st October, 2008, a pseudonymous person calling themself Satoshi Nakamoto...

Chapter 1 in a series "How to Think About Blockchains" Introduction In part 1, I laid out a structure for thinking about blockchains. Not...

Part 1: introduction to an open-ended series Many years ago I saw an idea online, the internet's version of a parlour game. It said that...

One of the common questions about crypto and digital assets relates to the regulation and legality thereof. This is absolutely right - if...

Crypto and DeFi are changing the financial system, but it's a very complicated system, so it's hard to predict how this change will...

I have written before about the process of adoption of blockchain technology, and how it needs a combination of domain, or commercial,...

If you have read about bitcoin, then you should have thought about what money is all about, what it is, fundamentally, and why it works....

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." So said Mark Twain, we are told. Anyone who has spent any time thinking about the...

When Europeans and Americans talk about financial services in Africa, the enlightened ones are increasingly coming to realise that they,...