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Bitcoin will never achieve widespread retail adoption.
For many years we’ve been assured by the cryptocurrency-concerned media that widespread Bitcoin adoption is just around the corner. Yet as each year passes it never seems to get any closer. There are significant challenges which need to be overcome … Continue reading
Posted in Bitcoin, Blockchain, Business, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum
Tagged Bitcoin, Blockchain, business
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My solution to #TheDao impasse.
1. Create a new (and properly vetted, this time) smart contract which will release an agreed and appropriate sum to the hacker. For the sake of argument, let’s say $1 million, which (it could be argued) is a just reward … Continue reading
Posted in Bitcoin, Blockchain, Business, Cryptocurrency, Economics, Ethereum, Organizational Behaviour
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One of the worst things that a business can do is to say to a customer: “we don’t do that here sorry” – especially when it would take no extra effort or expenditure to facilitate a successful transaction and, more … Continue reading
Looking forward to Kilkenomics 2013!
Tomorrow afternoon I will take a 2 hour journey by train from Adamstown station, near my home in Lucan, County Dublin. I’m embarking on my yearly pilgrimage to the Marble City of Kilkenny in south-east Ireland, in order to attend … Continue reading
Posted in Bitcoin, Business, Economics, Kilkenomics, Personal
Tagged Bitcoin, business, Castle Lodge, Cleere's, David McWilliams, economics, Ireland, Kilkenny, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenomics, Langton's, Max Keiser
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My Introduction to Bitcoin
I have recently become interested and invested (on a small scale) in the crypto-currency known as Bitcoin. Bitcoin was conceived of in 2008, by a mysterious individual (or, some say, a group of individuals) known as Satoshi Nakamoto, when he … Continue reading
Posted in Bitcoin, Business, Economics, Marketing, Personal, Social Media
Tagged Bitcoin, Bitstamp, Blockchain, Central Bank, Currencies, Eircoin, Electronic money, Facebook, Federal Reserve, Kilkenomics, Max Keiser, PikaPay, Quantitative Easing, Satoshi Nakamoto, Silk Road, social media, Sustainable Business Development, Trinity College
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