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The Weekend Read: April 25
I am back after a brief brisket-induced coma (courtesy of Franklin’s BBQ of Austin) to resume weekly read duties. Many thanks to Jo for her contributions last week. What Franklin’s considers a side...
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The Weekend Read: May 10
Your author (next to R3’s Tim Swanson) contemplating on his next meal in Singapore I hope you enjoy this slightly delayed and massively jetlagged edition of the weekly read. I have just returned from a...
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The Weekend Read: May 16
Everyone knows that the true color of the blockchain is puce (h/t @sytaylor) 1. Bitcoin vs. Blockchain: don’t call it a comeback? There was a ton of e-ink spilled this week in discussing the Nasdaq...
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Memorial Day Weekend Read
What is a wedding really: just another entry on the blockchain — Prof Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) May 22, 2015 Many thanks to Chris Skinner and the team at Breaking Banks podcast for inviting me to...
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The Weekend Read: May 29
1. Necker Island Report R3 Advisor Dr. Patrick Deegan sent me the following field report from his hardship posting on Branson Beach (for a fuller rundown you can read Marc van der Chijs’ postings here...
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The Weekend Read: June 4
Go on now Bitcoin, git! 1. Needing a token to operate a distributed ledger is a red herring by Tim Swanson One question that comes up in almost every conversation we have with financial markets folks...
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The Weekend Read: June 20
Happy Fathers Day! 1. Santander Innoventures Fintech 2.0 Paper: Rebooting Financial Services Very well done high level summary of the opportunities in re-engineering financial services, with an...
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The Weekend Read: July 17
1. Blockchain Explainer (for financial markets) by the FT Philip Stafford does an excellent job, both in print and video, in explaining why banks have “a keen interest in applying the blockchain…to...
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The Weekend Read: July 24
Count me among the ‘many’: Many will find this crazy, but I think bitcoin could surpass the dollar as reserve currency within 10-15 years. — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) July 24, 2015 1. Gimme a...
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The Weekend Read: August 15
[Ed. Note: I will be on hiatus for the last two weekends of summer. We will resume our (ir)regularly scheduled programming on Sep 4th] 1. Are we about to enter a Bitcoin Winter? Or is it Springtime for...
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The Weekend Read: Back to School Edition
Summer is (un-officially) over and the Bitcoin livin’ aint easy 1. Bitcoin Nerd Fight Update Since our last posting, lots of e-ink has been spilled and reddit sock puppets besmirched over the Great...
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The Weekend Read: Sep 13
Even The Donald has an opinion on the block size debate 1. Permissioned validators and permissionless innovation IB Times featured an interview with Smart Contract godfather (and oft-cited Satoshi...
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