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”

The Sharing Economy

The sharing economy has a lot of positives: it allows customers to share information, increase the efficiency of their assets, get cheaper rides and a whole lot more of services that without technology it would be impossible to obtain. Just a decade ago, it would have been unthinkable to lend your home for the weekendContinueContinue reading “The Sharing Economy”

Going Digital

Digitalisation is a process that a lot of companies are going through. We are ourselves in the midst of a large, software deployment that will change the way we manage and run our entire business. It will allow us to gather, analyse and understand the enormous amount of data that our company and its customersContinueContinue reading “Going Digital”