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xxx Sometimes an idea is ahead of its time. Many of the most ambitious products in payments and fintech were dismissed as absurd or over-ambitious at the time — only to feel perfectly normal years later as culture and consumer habits evolved. From 7 failed fintech ideas that might succeed today | PaymentsSource xxx

xxx This week, Amazon was awarded two patents for wristbands that can track a warehouse worker’s hands and monitor their performance. From Amazon files patent for wearable IoT wristband to track its warehouse workers – TechRepublic xxx   xxx A class-action lawsuit filed earlier this week claims that vibrator manufacturing company Lovense, based in HongContinue reading “Amazon files patent for wearable IoT wristband to track its warehouse workers – TechRepublic”

xxx A class-action lawsuit filed earlier this week claims that vibrator manufacturing company Lovense, based in Hong Kong, has been collecting data on customers… Among these details are ‘the date and time of each use and the selected vibration settings’. From Vibrator manufacturing company ‘collected users’ data’ | Daily Mail Online xxx I was pleaseContinue reading “Vibrator manufacturing company ‘collected users’ data’ | Daily Mail Online”

There are billions of identities coming online in coming years whether this be refugees and those in developing countries (as referenced heavily at Davos), or devices and things These identities all need to be secured, at massive scale…this requires innovative, flexible, future proof identity platforms that can handle this complexity Position on blockchain (which IContinue reading “POST 1500 words on Davos for ForgeRock”

xxx The most toxic consequence of social media manipulation [is] existential distrust. From Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans | Boston Review xxx

xxx Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the fourth largest bank in the world, will launch its own digital currency MUFG coin… The bank also plans to peg one MUFG coin to one Japanese yen in order to maintain people’s confidence in the new cryptocurrency. From World’s Fourth Largest Bank MUFG To Launch Own Cryptoc…Continue reading “World’s Fourth Largest Bank MUFG To Launch Own Cryptoc… | News | Cointelegraph”

xxx “We were hired for community management. We had their ceo passport as proof of identity. Comes out it is also fake”. From Benebit ICO Does a Runner with $2.7 Million of Investor Funds – Bitcoin News xxx

In the superb BBC Radio 4 documentary on Marshall McLuhan, by Douglas Copeland, one of McLuhan’s comments (from half a century ago) that really struck home with me was that in the electronic, networked, instant media age there will be “ways of being evil that we don’t understand yet”. How astonishingly prescient of the manContinue reading “POST Waging war with disinformation”

xxx Global digital payments volumes are predicted to increase by an average 10.9 percent through to 2020, reaching nearly 726 billion transactions, according to the World Payments Report 2017 (WPR 2017). From Digital payments volumes continue to rise globally xxx

xxx But coding and then deploying your own personal currency from scratch turns out to be a lot of heavy lifting. So Prodromou put his idea on hold. This year, when Ethereum took off, he realized Evancoin’s time had come. Ethereum is a platform that lets you use the same technology that underlies Bitcoin, aContinue reading “This Techie Is Using Blockchain to Monetize His Time | WIRED”