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Is Blockchain a General Purpose Technology?

Historically, eras of technological progress and economic growth have been driven by a number of key technologies, known as general-purpose technologies (GPTs) ...

The Fluid Consumer

The Fluid Consumer is a term coined by Teo Correia, the Global Senior Managing Director of Accenture's Consumer Goods & Services industry group, to describe...

What's FinTech?

In short, FinTech is the contraction of Financial and Technology. It's an umbrella term describing everything related to technologies serving financial services...

From Digitization to Digitalization

The history of humanity is undeniably marked by technological evolution. We, as a species, are particularly characterized by Technology. In other terms, our hum...

Choosing Optimism

One of my intentions with this blog is to share a realistically optimist point of view on our world and society. Many of us are drawn into a very pess...

Blockchain Design

While public blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum were the first to emerge, private and consortium blockchains that restrict access to specific users witness...

General Terms

Before I start telling you about all the wonderful and mundane things revolving around blockchain technology, let's first revisit some terms.  To do so, I'...

What is blockchain?

Blockchain is a set of technologies allowing us to build a new kind of network infrastructure enabling the transfer of value. Network of Value Vs. Network of In...

On Decentralization & Scalability

Would centralization undermine blockchain technology’s purpose as a shared ledger? When we address the topic of centralization or decentralization in block...

Another one I kept for myself (or is it away from myself?)

Choosing optimism = This blog post was written on May 9, 2018. I forgive myself for holding myself back on many things I wanted to do but didn't want to do. ---...

On Transparency and personal Integrity

Original title: Vulnerability: what happened to my writing attempt and what I discovered (text written on the 1st of April 2018, Bali) For the past couple of mo...

Depression? I don't know...

I was talking to Khlayla -my aunt- last week, and I said: "I may seem like the happiest person but also like the most depressed" I guess I have been both, and s...

What do you want to do?

What do you want to do? We often ask each other, ourselves. Well, I never really had an answer to this question in terms of doing something in particular. So th...

Be The Change

Hello world, Just a quick introduction as I want to share with you a piece of the vision that I have for a new system. I wrote this for an assignment back in Ju...

Beauty in contrasts

.jpg) The beauty of human kind resides in its contrasts. We are genuinely good yet naturally cruel, incredibly strong yet instantly weak and highly complex yet ...