See this Reference Link. Difficult to say. The fiat currencies we have today, have built-in fault lines within them, when it comes to issuance and usage. The US Dollar certainly is the preferred reserve currency of choice at the moment, but if history has taught us anything, it is that nothing lasts forever. Especially empires. I think […]
Category: Blockchain
What is the best crypto currency out there outside of bitcoin?
Probably Ethereum. It is the one that is perhaps most used. Plenty of smart contracts on it. Almost every ICO conducted has raised funds via Ethereum (or Bitcoin). Most of the transactions for ICO related token sales are on the Ethereum platform. Very economical to move value via Ethererum. Again, perhaps the only cryptocurrency token/platform […]
What is the best blockchain guide, book, or overview for product managers? What articles or blogs about blockchain do you recommend?
To be honest, whatever comes out, gets outdated quite quickly, due to the rapidly changing nature of this new technology. Think of blockchain like the inflationary period in the big bang. The stars, planets, moons, black holes, galaxies, etc. have yet to form. All the books today, are purely theoretical, and whilst many of them […]
Will Ripple dominate cross border payments transfer market worldwide?
Hard to say. At the time of writing this answer, Ripple (payment network) has about 200 or so banks signed up. A pretty small number, but much more than any other alternative provider out there, that just got started in the last few years. With over 15,000 banks microfinance banks, credits unions, community banks, etc., some put […]
Should I sign up to Initiative Q?
It all depends on traction right! If a network is able to give me the traction I need, I would use it. Even as widespread payment networks are (or so we are lead to believe), they are highly fragmented (emphasis supplied). With over 1,900+ payment systems in the world, less than 3% are connected. So if InitiativeQ […]