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Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Last Sunday I was visiting a hockey match here in the place where I live. Near the playing field, I was drinking a beer, discussing with a friend of mine who worked at a big international airline company about the role blockchain could play in this sector. This triggered me to write this blog. By the way, our team lost! Let’s first look at where...
24 May 2017
Early May, the Indian IT services and consulting powerhouse Wipro, announced it had joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) as a founding member. This Alliance, formed around the open-source blockchain-based platform Ethereum, was officially launched end February with 30 founding members to develop enterprise-grade blockchain solutions. “En...
15 May 2017
Whereas the focus on the use of blockchain long time has been on payments and securities, an important but still undervalued use case has been supply chain finance. But that is changing. The complexity and scale of existing supply chain finance solutions has posed major challenges in ensuring adequate funding and efficient operations. According t...
05 May 2017
Now also The Netherlands (I am a Dutchman!) has its broad-based collaborative blockchain initiative. At the end of last month (30 March 2017), there was the official kick-off of the National Blockchain Coalition (“Nationale Blockchain Coalitie” in official Dutch language) (NBC) at the premises of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Hague. The...
15 April 2017
Recently, I wrote that smaller blockchain consortia are needed (see my Blog: Towards smaller and more focused blockchain consortia, 27 February 2017). The Hyperledger Project however may be the exception. Things look quite good for the Hyperledger Project, described as being an “umbrella” for the developer communities to work on creating open sourc...
07 April 2017
Have you ever thrown a stone in still water of a river or a lake. I did! The effect is rippling the water in a way that can be followed outwards incrementally. It might be this effect that the founders of Ripple, the payments blockchain network had in mind when choosing the name for their project. Did it ripple? But first: who is Ripple? San Fra...
27 March 2017
One of the obstacles for massive adoption of blockchain technology is the lack of clarity from regulators. Regulators world-wide have long time taken a wait-and-see attitude towards blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) (see my Blog “Blockchain and Regulation: do no stiffle .... April 4, 2016). But that is changing. Regulators across ...
13 March 2017
In one of my first blogs on blockchain “What’s blockchain not: some misconceptions” (March 22, 2016), I wrote that this technology was not only for financial services. It can be used for many more areas. One sector that is already seeing significant activity is healthcare. From the perspective of blockchain adoption, healthcare organisations are m...
08 March 2017
There is a tremendous amount of activity focused on blockchain. Several blockchain-related organizations and consortiums have been formed all across the globe, to study this and contribute solutions in a collaborated way. But the recent announcement of a number of big banks to leave the bank-backed R3CEV consortium has raised the question of the ...
27 February 2017
Blockchain seems to be not just a straightforward upward movement. This despite the various real-world examples and the growing number of believers. Sometimes it is very interesting and above all educational to look at an individual project for a more back-to-earth view. That experiments do not just show the positives but also the gaps. Last week ...
15 February 2017
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