Tag "Alex Batlin"
Alex Batlin’s Briefing of Crypto 2.0 Musings – Standards and Reference Data Governance DAO
Last few weeks has seen the rise of The DAO – an organization like no other. Part VC fund of about 170 million USD, part crowdfunding platform, part machine. The machine part is the novel piece of the puzzle – effectively all of
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Alex Batlin’s Briefing of Crypto 2.0 Musings – Combining Ricardian and Smart Contracts
Nick Szabo proposed the idea of smart contracts back in 1997 Many kinds of contractual clauses (such as collateral, bonding, delineation of property rights, etc.) can be embedded in the hardware and software we deal with, in such a way
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Alex Batlin’s Briefing of Crypto 2.0 Musings – Land Registry
Following up his 2 previous musings on “Bitcoin and Money Creation” and “Blockchain Disruption Evaluation”, Alex Batlin is back with another interesting observation on of using blockchains for land registry. Below is Alex’s full post: Land Registry Privatization The Guardian’s Land Registry faces
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Alex Batlin’s Briefing of Bitcoin and Money Creation
People often ask me to explain to them why would anyone, with easy access to a bank account and not engaged in illegal activities, choose to use Bitcoin for domestic payments, after all, current payment systems are far more ubiquitous,
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