Money that can buy you a future.
In Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) latest dystopian science-fiction movie “In Time”, money is time, quite literally: money is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, centuries and beyond 25, people need to earn...
View ArticleThe idiot and the coin
It is said that a city inside a group of people enjoyed the village idiot. A poor man of low intelligence,odd jobs and lived on alms. Every day they called the idiot at the bar where they met and...
View ArticleWhat drives demand for money?
John Carney at CNBC tells the fascinating story of a college currency called the Buckaroo and asks the question: is the demand driven by the community service taxes that the college only collects in...
View ArticleMultidimensional value and the future of transactions
I was talking recently to people who have been using our neighborhood rewards debit card in Bernal Heights, and they mentioned: Something we are striving more and more to do is to be considerate and...
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Electronic money and #sandy
As we mediate on the devastation of hurricane Sandy, one thing to consider is the usefulness and the resiliency, if any, of the new money technologies, during such a disaster. Here’s a collection of...
View ArticleThe future of money is less money
This is a piece I originally posted 2 years ago as a comment on emergentbydesign.com. The money we use is Government money or levered Government money (bank credit). Government money is backed by...
View ArticleBitCoin, the BlockChain and the Internet of Things
Just re-posting it from Twitter: I think what people should be really excited about is the blockchain. BitCoin just an app. Exciting: having the ownership of every single real/virtual object in the...
View ArticleFuture of Money Interview. Part I. On Credibles and owning digital currencies...
Interview between Heather Schlegel (@heathervescent) and Guillaume Lebleu (@giyom), co-founder of Credibles. Recorded on July 18 2014, funded via the Future of Money Kickstarter. HS: Would you mind...
View ArticleFuture of Money Interview. Part II. Part II On digital currency, politics and...
Interview between Heather Schlegel (@heathervescent) and Guillaume Lebleu (@giyom), co-founder of Credibles. Recorded on July 18 2014, funded via the Future of Money Kickstarter. HS: So let’s think...
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Building Gift Cards 2.0 on the block chain
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