We have been asked this question a few times. Bitcoin, the archetype of all the cryptocurrencies was conceived to remove the need for a trusted third party. Central Banks are trusted third parties themselves. They are actually the trusted third party par excellence. So why are they playing with ideas Read more…
Internet brought several new business ideas with it and online commerce was one of it. Undoubtedly, Amazon has been the king of this field. With years of operations it has not just capitalized on its initial core business model but has also successfully expanded into other related ventures. One of Read more…
Maybe this is not the shortest ever, but surely the best we could put together to provide enough details to get a complete understanding of it. Let’s start by breaking a myth: bitcoin is not just cool because it’s digital. Nope! Digital assets and electronic money are not a new Read more…
Image Credit : www.stoodnt.com (This article is the second one of a series about regulations and Regtech) We became interested in Regtech when we found out what an exclusive and useful niche field it is. Good players not only need great technological skills but also an in depth understanding of Read more…
(This article is the first one in a series about regulations and Regtech) The first time I remember walking into a bank, I was just a kid. I was there with my mum who had to deposit some cash. The building was huge and everyone looked so knowledgeable and professional. Read more…
Thanks to www.tradingview.com for the chart No matter how much Blockchain is pontificated and bitcoin is a taboo in formal meetings, when the official part is over, we can see eyes shining a brighter light with the conversations switching to unorthodox topics “…did you buy it? When did you buy? Read more…
It was 2012 and Mark Zuckerberg was all but happy about Facebook’s mobile app. Mark one day said, ‘No more meetings until you come in with a mobile screenshot first’, and he did not have any product meetings for a couple of weeks.” As Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO and founder Read more…
At the 2015 AWS re:Invent conference, Rob Brigham made a compelling presentation explaining how in 2000 the engineering group at Amazon, had the undesirable duty of reconciling changes from hundreds of developing teams. Amazon was a monolith, then “It was architected in multiple tiers, and those tiers had many components Read more…