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One of my all time favourite television shows is “Greg the Bunny”, which ran for only one season in the Unites States many years ago. One of my favourite jokes is when a female character called Dottie tells the eponymous lead that she has been caught on camera in an adult situation. “Sexual situation?” heContinue reading “Adults”

Electoral fraud isn’t a huge problem in the United Kingdom but it does happen, and it looks as if it’s been happening with increasing frequency in certain areas. So the government has decided to do something about it and they are going to introduce an “voter ID” scheme that will require people to provide someContinue reading “The gold standard for voting OLD DRAFT”

xxx Wicker acknowledges that it is obviously important to continue security surveillance, for example, to prevent terror attacks, but the tradeoffs need to be properly considered. “There are other ways to do police work, in my opinion,” Wicker said. From Cornell Researchers Highlight Ethical Lapses in Recent Cybersecurity Failures | The Cornell Daily Sun xxx

xxx consumers spent a whopping £57.8bn on cards in July, an increase of 7.4% from July 2016, when £54.2bn was spent. From Consumers spend £57.8bn on cards – Credit cards – News | moneyfacts.co.uk xxx

Well, Woking is in the news. It is going to be part of a pilot scheme at the forefront of the UK’s non-existent identity non-strategy to not introduce a working digital identity infrastructure to our great nation at any time in the foreseeable future The government has decided that voters in five areas in EnglandContinue reading “POST Voter ID is back, and this time it’s in Woking”

xxx 51 percent of Canadian consumers are expected to do away with using cash entirely by 2020. Paysafe also found that 56 percent of Canadian consumers visit an ATM only once a month, while 19 percent said they rarely carry cash at all. From Less than half of Canadians expected to use cash by 2020,Continue reading “Less than half of Canadians expected to use cash by 2020, says research”

Writing in the Bank of England’s “Bank Underground” blog, Simon Scorer from the Digital Currencies Division, makes a number of very interesting points about the requirement for some form of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). He remarks on the transition from dumb money to smart money, and the consequent potential for the implementation of digitalContinue reading “Beyond blockchain: what are the technology requirements for a Central Bank Digital Currency? – Bank Underground”

We’ve been in mobile payments from the earliest days. We worked on the UK’s first prepaid scheme, first WAP “walled garden”, first NFC trials and, I’m proud to say, M-PESA in Kenya. Success has many fathers, of course, but carrying out the original feasibility study for M-PESA is one of the bigger feathers in theContinue reading “BBC – Future – The surprising place where cash is going extinct”

Look, it’s not just nobodies like me who say this. Nathan Myrvold is XXX and a pretty smart (and pretty rich) guy. Here’s what he said about this a couple of decades ago when the first attempts at electronic cash were beginning [Levy, S. E-money in “Wired”, December 1994)]. “There’s a role for untraceable transactions. ButContinue reading “Myhrvold”

xxx App Annie says that dating apps made up one-third of the top 15 apps by iOS revenue yesterday, along with video and music streaming apps. From Tinder hits top grossing app in the App Store on heels of Tinder Gold launch | TechCrunch xxx