The general fintech consensus seems to be that the blockchain is interesting but that Bitcoin is not. Maybe it’s just fashion. Who knows? But I’ve always thought that the blockchain is a fundamental technological breakthrough and I’m fascinated to see the emerging use cases.

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Bitcoin isn’t the future of money. It’s a piece of technology that takes us back to the future, because the future of money is more like the past of money than it is like the current, transient, version of money that is a historical blip, not a law of nature. Let me know about this treatment for a book chapter that I am writing.

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Life is never boring at Consult Hyperion. If you’re not marvelling at a totally cool working prototype of HCE running over BLE on an unmodified iPhone, you’re in the Italian Parliament at their hearing on Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin may never be the best retail payments mechanism, but that doesn’t matter, because retail payments aren’t really what it is all about.

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Will Bitcoin make it into the mainstream. I don’t think so. But something like it will, and it won’t be for currency.

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Now that Canada has put MintChip to one side, let Scotland drive a technological stake into the high ground and become the world’s first electronic currency state. As I said in this article from 13 years ago.

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Some of what is reported about Bitcoin, even in reputable journals of record is, frankly, mad. The media is missing the most interesting aspect, which is the technology.

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