Great short video on one of the key technologies that I see as a potential disruptor to the current Bitcoin blockchain: Proof-of-Stake (vs proof-of-work)
Author Archives: Pablo Alonso Caprile
Pigs’ AI
Large tech companies are starting to realise the importance of applying exponential technologies to the food supply chain. In Asia specifically, customers worry a lot about the safety of the food they are eating and scandals occur often. One way to deal with this, and make very decent money on the way, is to applyContinueContinue reading “Pigs’ AI”
Disruptors
Excellent video summary of 19 industries that are prone to disruption by blockchain-based start-ups. Here are some examples: Smart contracts based on real-word data (for insurance, futures market etc): Aethernity Ride-sharing platforms: Arcade City Distributed Cloud Storage: Storj Charity donation: BitGive Foundation Supply-Chain data analytics: Provenance.org Future Thinkers’s 19 Industries The Blockchain Will Disrupt
The Swapy Network
Blockchain technologies are obviously going to affect financial services companies. The wide availability of credit globally combined with a de-centralised platform to move funds around combine for an obvious outcome: C-to-C fundraising for personal credit. And it was only a matter of time before someone came up with such a platform. The Swapy Network isContinueContinue reading “The Swapy Network”
FlyingFox
Sensational, just watch: Festo’s Flying Fox
Upwards
Central bank accommodation and monetary looseness might be coming to an end. After six years of virtually nil fed funds rate, the Fed under Yellen and now under Powell, is starting an upward cycle that to me might go faster than the market thinks. With the US economy buoyant, unemployment at all-time low and marketsContinueContinue reading “Upwards”
BlockChain
Two quick, concise explanations of Blockchain. Worth watching: Whiteboard Session: How Does Blockchain Work? Simply Explained’s Blockchain
Financials in the Digital World
Really interesting take by HBR on how financial statements in the digital era are becoming redundant and new metrics have to be used to quantitatively harness the value present in digital companies. Examples such as WhatsApp’s $19bn sale to Facebook whilst having no revenues and Twitter’s lack a profit since inception only go to proveContinueContinue reading “Financials in the Digital World”
60 Seconds Online
60 seconds in the life of the Web.
Power Couple
Great article on how couples need to have a long-term plan on how to advance, or not, their careers. Very, very interesting read. HBR on career couple
Pablo F. Alonso Caprile 