Technology

December 20, 2019.  Making predictions is simply irresistible at this time of the year – this year in particular. Sixteen days from today will mark not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade. Not just any decade, but one that has...
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October 27, 2017.  I’ve been thinking a lot about America and how we can improve our country while things socially and politically continue to trudge forward in a state of apparent dysfunction. I tweeted this last week, and that got me thinking, so here...
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September 27, 2019. Contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is in fact backed by something. It is backed by the only thing that backs any form of money: the credibility of its monetary properties. Money is not a collective hallucination nor merely a belief system. Over...
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November 7, 2019.  One year ago exactly, I wrote my first piece about a stablecoin called Tether. A year later, uh, wow: From legal action introduced last month: Leibowitz et al. versus iFinex et al., US District Court.-A complaint is not the same thing...
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November 03, 2019. In the near future, customer experiences will be centered around ‘self-driving finance’ which automates and improves much of our’ financial decisions and outcomes. Not a fictional scenario but a very real possibility in the near term. Platform and processing power, data abundance,...
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December 14, 2019. Technology is reshaping the operating-model of financial institutions fundamentally, and the attributes necessary to build a successful business. AI is weakening various components of incumbent financial institutions, thereby creating an opportunity for an entirely new operating-models and category-dynamics focused on the scale...
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May 20, 2019. The speed of technological change is exponential. What was yesterday’s hot ticket quickly becomes tomorrow’s old news. We are living in the midst of a huge surge of interest and research in Artificial Intelligence (AI). It seems like every week...
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