I have a new post up on the Deloitte blog, coauthored with Robert Hillard. As we point out in the post: Bitcoin Miners are being paid somewhere […]
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Can blockchain save the music industry?
I have a new post up at the Deloitte Digital blog: Can blockchain save the music industry? One of the trends we’re seeing across industry […]
Continue readingBlockchain performance might always suck, but that’s not a problem
I’ve been watching the Bitcoin scaling debate with some amusement, given that my technical background is in distributed AI and operational simulation (with some VR […]
Continue readingBitcoin’s not broken
A lot of high profile Bitcoin people are getting their knickers in a knot as they’re starting to realise that they don’t have any real […]
Continue readingThe problem with platforms in the sharing economy
I have a new post up on the Deloitte Strategy blog.It’s the result of a chat I was having the other day with an economist colleague who opined that […]
Continue readingPlatforms are the new fool’s gold
I have a new post up on the Deloitte Strategy blog, which I wrote with Richard Millar. Platforms are all the rage. In the modern […]
Continue readingHas Apple made NFC irrelevant?
In The future of exchanging value{{1}} I, along with Peter Williams and Ian Harper at Deloitte, pointed out that a successful retail payments strategy should […]
Continue readingBPM over promised and under delivered
One Saturday night the other week I was typing away on a book that I’m working on (probably called The new instability. How cloud computing, […]
Continue readingOpen Data might have failed, but Open Government is still going strong.
It would seem that the shine is starting to wear off the Open Government movement, with a recent report to the US congress challenging some […]
Continue readingSocial media: bubble, definitely not; revolution, probably not; evolution, absolutely
Is Social Media in general (and mobility in particular) a bubble or revolution? Is it a a powerful and disruptive force that will transform governments […]
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