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Blockchain / Crypto

Blockchain: New Use Cases for Governments and Business

Governments, businesses, and individuals are developing new use cases for blockchain as barriers to adoption continue to decrease. Blockchain has already had a significant impact in the finance industry with the global cryptocurrency market cap now exceeding $1 trillion. Blockchain looks set to be deployed in many other industries. The technology adds value by enabling […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

Blockchain: Bitcoin, Bored Apes, and Beyond

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. Removing the financial intermediary, i.e. the bank, can increase convenience, efficiency, and security. Direct peer-to-peer transactions can be settled instantly compared with interbank transfers that traditionally take several days. Transaction fees can […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

Berlin Blockchain Week 2019

In my last blog post I interviewed a fellow CEMSie, who heads partnership advisory at ScanTrust by day and co-runs BerChain by night, about the potential focus areas for blockchain in supply chain and one of the world’s most impressive blockchain ecosystems: Berlin. We learned that due to the ecosystems varying focus areas, the many […]

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Blockchain / Crypto Healthcare

Blockchain in Healthcare: Possibilities and Limitations

The blockchain revolution continues…next stop: healthcare! Blockchain has shown the ability to streamline and revolutionize a number of industries and sectors and its ability to have a sizeable impact on the healthcare industry will be no different. Being able to capitalize on this unique technology could potentially connect fragmented clinical information in such a way […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

Blockchain and the Law: Is It Safe and Legal to Trade Cryptocurrency?

Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are revolutionary thanks to their decentralized and unregulated nature. Not tied to any central bank or government, these virtual currencies have begun to redefine the fintech sector in a number of ways, but their iconoclastic properties mean they inhabit a murky stretch of legal landscape. As virtual currencies that permeate […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

BlockChain: Opportunities for the Consulting Industry

What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a decentralized network of computing units called nodes  that facilitate peer to peer transactions without the need for a third party or a larger centralized server to facilitate or validate those transactions. Currently, a trusted third party like a bank,lawyer or a government body is required to validate transactions, such […]

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Innovation

How To Pitch A Disruptive Business Plan

One of the things I learned during my EMBA was how to break down, re-organize and clearly explain certain kinds of information; a skill which has proved useful when preparing and pitching my start-up based on my b-school business plan. In late October, that got put to the test. I had the opportunity to pitch […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

Blockchain Entertainment

While the global banking behemoths rush in to the blockchain space, many industry verticals beyond banking are also exploring applications for this technology.  This starts with insurance but also extends to supply chain management and shipping. However, there is a new vertical that has almost overnight started using the technology, learning how to make money […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

Bitcoin Remains Resilient Despite Establishment Backlash

Just this week, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon came out strongly against Bitcoin.  Calling it a “fraud“, claiming that “it is worse than tulip mania”, and declaring that he will fire any employee who trades the cryptocurrency for being “stupid”. (While somewhat amusingly admitting that his daughter invests in Bitcoin.) Also this week, several China-based Bitcoin […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

Blockchain as Monetized Infrastructure

For those struggling to understand blockchain, think of it this way. It will be the digital connection between people as well as between machines – starting with your cell phone. It will be used to tell your washing machine when to run. It will also be used to bill you for the electricity and water […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

Blockchain For Managers

No matter one’s professional background, these days it is almost impossible to escape at least a very basic introduction to “blockchain.” At its core, blockchain has the potential to give every individual access to data, processes, and the ability to transact with others on a scale that was never before possible. From a strictly mid-20th […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

What Does Blockchain Mean For HealthCare?

There are many people who cringe when they think about what is going to happen to healthcare under a Trump administration. Healthcare is a subject which has wormed its way into everyday conversation since Ronald Reagan was in office. Back then “entitlements”, specifically social security, were a supposed “third rail” that could not be touched, […]

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Blockchain / Crypto

What Is Blockchain? A Beginner’s Guide

The year 2017, for everything else it may or may not be, is already heralded as “The Year of Blockchain.” But what exactly is “blockchain” – and why is it slated to be the debutante of the ball across multiple industries? Essentially blockchain is a way of connecting distributed databases to each other. In other […]

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Blockchain / Crypto Economics

The Far Reaching Impact of Blockchain

Blockchain, the underlying technology used by Bitcoin, has implications that reach far beyond the financial services community and banks. This is where new development and implementation may have focussed so far. However, as the technology and its implications become better understood, it will rapidly expand to new industries and verticals. Blockchain systems operate as a […]

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Banking Blockchain / Crypto

Bitcoin, Digital Currency and The Future of Banking

When news broke in late October that some of London’s largest banks were investing in Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies in general got another boost. According to reports, however, this latest move to embrace Bitcoin was not a positive embrace of the digital currency per se, but rather a move to stockpile Bitcoin to fend off denial of […]