The Babel Fish, Jevons, and a Changing Relationship with Money
Image: BBC via YouTube First we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. Money is one of those tools, and one that is in the...
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BlackRock and the tokenisation of everything
“ETFs are step one in the technological revolution in the financial markets; step two is going to be the tokenization of every financial...
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Tomorrow Never Knows: blockchains in the future
This is the final article in a commitment device / series that I proposed a while ago, "How to think about blockchains". The first five...
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I and I: identity and blockchains
This is the fifth article in my ongoing "How to Think About Blockchains" series. The introduction, with links to the others, is here. On...
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Everywhere: tokenisation of everything
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...
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When blockchains become operating imperatives
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...
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Money, Money, Money
Chapter 3 in a series "How to Think About Blockchains". The first thing blockchains disrupted was money. Understanding what money is and...
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New Kid in Town
Chapter 2 in a series "How to Think About Blockchains" On 31st October, 2008, a pseudonymous person calling themself Satoshi Nakamoto...
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Changes: thinking about innovation
Chapter 1 in a series "How to Think About Blockchains" Introduction In part 1, I laid out a structure for thinking about blockchains. Not...
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How to Think About Blockchains
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...
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Crypto regulation globally and in SA
One of the common questions about crypto and digital assets relates to the regulation and legality thereof. This is absolutely right - if...
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DeFi, financial services and changing times
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...
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CBDC and a new paradigm of competition
I have written before about the process of adoption of blockchain technology, and how it needs a combination of domain, or commercial,...
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Blockchain's Impact: Exit, Voice, Loyalty
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....
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The strategy of blockchain adoption
"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...
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It’s not leapfrog: financial services in Africa is a different game altogether
When Europeans and Americans talk about financial services in Africa, the enlightened ones are increasingly coming to realise that they,...
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