Category: Commercializing Blockchain

Enterprise Blockchain adoption still in the early stages 

Enterprise Blockchain adoption still in the early stages Four years ago I launched Commercializing Blockchain: Strategic Applications in the Real World at a fantastic event in Las Vegas, followed by a private event at the US senate and a number of launches across the USA and back to London, U.K. for the final launch event […]

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Five years in Blockchain and things have changed lots and little..

Back in 2017 I joined the world of #Blockchain and presented my first ever Blockchain presentation on 14th November 2017 at a Tech meetup in Penticton, BC (Canada) I attach all 90 slides (No idea how I came up so many slides at that early stage) anyway – its attached for you to flick through […]

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The future of money – tokenising the future of innovation with CBDCs, stablecoins & digital assets

  Antony Welfare from Ripple highlights the role of key blockchain use cases like payments and DeFi and the token types in transforming the future of money   Ripple is one of the first companies to talk about the concept of the Internet of Value. Could you please briefly present it? What are the main […]

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My Thoughts on BritCoin – Could it drive financial inclusion?

First Published: https://diginomica.com/britcoin-cometh-inside-story-digital-pound-could-it-drive-financial-inclusion The UK could be about to get a national digital currency. On 19 April, the Bank of England announced the launch of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Taskforce to explore the concept of a digital coin for the nation: a digital Pound – a BritCoin, if you will. The BofE and […]

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My Take: why Britain needs a digital pound

First published in Cointelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/news/expert-explains-why-britain-needs-a-digital-pound One of the contributors to the Bank of England’s preliminary CBDC research tells us why a digital pound is neccessary in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the launch of a CBDC task force this week, bringing together the Bank of England and Her Majesty’s […]

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Why Hybrid Blockchains Are Simply Good for Business

  First published on beincrypto.com – https://beincrypto.com/why-hybrid-blockchains-are-simply-good-for-business/ The benefits for business delivered by hybrid blockchain models are exponential. A hybrid chain model seamlessly incorporates two integrated chains — one public and one private — allowing businesses to utilize the immense benefits brought by integrated public and private blockchains. Businesses are afforded enhanced security measures through hybrid chains, […]

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Breaking the Financial Status Quo with Central Bank Digital Currencies

  First Published on Nasdaq,com – https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/breaking-the-financial-status-quo-with-central-bank-digital-currencies-2020-09-22 Blockchain technology is now over a decade old. As the technology approaches the 12th anniversary of the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper, it is clear that the technology has entered a new mature phase of significant development. Many emerging technologies follow a similar path of development to […]

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Blockchain and ERP – The future of the “back office” – ERP 2.0

My background is Finance in Retail and I am a qualified accountant, which means I have spent the majority of my career using two systems: 1) ERP – Enterprise resource planning tools 2) Excel – Spreadsheets An ERP system is best known as the “back end” of the systems – this is the enterprise wide […]

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Blockchain and Diversity

One area in which Blockchain technology is a massively important topic is around the diversity of the new world and the ecosystem. Within the Blockchain community, there is no old school stereotypical majorities and ownership. The fact that this is a new and innovative technology, which appeals to innovators, academics, entrepreneurs as well as the […]

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The Circular Economy And Sustainability Powered By Blockchain

There is an increasing focus on and awareness of the damage humans are causing the planet. Whether you believe the extent of this or not, I am sure you agree that we should become better planet citizens and start to reduce, recycle and reuse more than we do today. As the damaging effects of climate […]

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Bienvenido 2020’s – #TheBlockchainDecade

Adios 2010’s the decade where I pivoted my lifetime Retail career and welcomed the world of #Blockchain technology In 2011 I published The Retail Handbook First edition (in shocking pink!) and the second edition was published in 2018 – but by then I had already “got the Blockchain bug” and added my first thought leadership […]

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Blockchain and DLT are not a Database – they are ledgers

I get asked all the time if Blockchain and DLT is a Database – they are not   I appreciate there is lots of confusion on this topic, so let us start by understanding what Blockchain technology is and where it ‘fits’ into the current world. Blockchain technology is a type of ‘distributed ledger technology’ […]

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Blockchain Ecosystem Should Focus On Education

  We are approximately five years into the blockchain revolution, and the hype curve “peak of inflated expectations” has passed. We are now starting to see blockchain solutions appear across a multitude of industries. From the supply chain to healthcare to financial transactions to manufacturing and many more, there are now numerous blockchain solutions that […]

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Commercializing Blockchain at Global Insurance confernce

A pleasure to close the DXC Technology Insurance 2019 conference in Miami, with a Fireside chat discussing how #Blockchain technology will help transform the #Insurance sector The conference was about #DigitalDelivered in the Insurance sector and showed the vast amount of #innovation driving the future of this industry Thanks to the DXC Team for an […]

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