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Archives for October 2014

Porn is a serious issue, and so is identity

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We’d all, I’m sure, prefer a world in which children did not have access to corrosive and nauseating material that undermines our civilised society. But how can we stop children from seeing MTV and the Daily Mail? The government has given up on this, I’m afraid, and has instead decided to try to stop them from seeing porn.

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The phoney war is over, part 2

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In the battle for your digital identity, the banks do have some advantages. But they need a strategy, because the technology, business and social roadmaps are not as stable as they seemed.

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The phoney war is over, part 1

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The real battle between MCX and Apple, between banks and Google, between retailers and telcos is not about your handset, your SIM (soft or otherwise) or your payments. It’s about your identity.

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I’m not keeping an open mind about Bitcoin, and nor is the government

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I saw a number of excited, and entirely mistaken, tweets saying that the British government are supporting Bitcoin, when they are doing nothing of the sort. In fact, the relevant UK Minister merely said that they government are keeping an “open mind” about Bitcoin. They’re not: they are keeping an open mind about the blockchain, and that’s much more interesting.

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The British cash gap

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Central banks and criminals are colluding to grow the shadow economy, which seems mad to me, because the seigniorage income from the circulating medium of exchange is a fraction of the tax gap it stimulates. Surely we should have a plan to do something about this?

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We still haven’t finished talking about mobile wallets

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I had assumed that the world had got bored with talking about mobile wallets by now, but that certainly wasn’t the case in London last week, where I had the great fun of chairing a couple of discussion panels on the topic and found new perspectives on the likely marketplace trajectory.

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Cash is a feminist issue

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Cash is becoming a payment mechanism for poor people (and poor countries), but because of its high costs it’s very bad for both of them. Oh, and it’s really annoying for women, even if they are not in poor countries.

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Bill Gates was spot on at SIBOS – there’s an identity problem

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Last week I was very interested to see that Bill Gates highlighted identity as a key problem at SIBOS. This was because I’d already noticed that there was a problem with one of the identities there: mine.

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Bitcoin, currency and competition

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Why is there only one Bank of England? Only one Pound Sterling and one interest rate throughout the UK? The Head of the Competition and Markets Authority says that competition in currency is “welcome”. So what is he going to do about it?

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These are the personal opinions of Consult Hyperion and its guests and should not be misunderstood as representing the opinion of its clients or suppliers. To discuss how any of the technologies discussed in this post can benefit your business, please contact Consult Hyperion.

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