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Today, in the Payments Innovation Conference this morning done in the Federal Reserve (from now on “Fed”) something relevant has been announced. WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is studying the creation of a new account that would provide access to Fed payment services for firms that currently rely on third parties … Read more
A Bitcoin treasury company is a firm that holds a significant portion of its corporate reserves or balance sheet assets in Bitcoin. More specifically, the term often refers to publicly traded companies that: Who are the main clients of these companies? Institutional Investors, specially Funds and Asset Managers, why? Many large institutions, such as retirement … Read more
Let’s review some concepts related to blockchain. Difference between an “asset first” wallet and a “network first” wallet Examples asset-First Wallets: Examples of Network-First Wallets: What is a parachain? A parachain is a blockchain that operates in parallel to a main blockchain, also known as a relay chain. Parachains are typically designed to provide additional … Read more
Today I was reviewing the maps of CBDC competitive analysis and specially the one where bitcoin was added with Gerard and Pablo. We were discussing about the main components, their positions and we added some other ones. This is the updated map: Digital currency in China: project e-CNY Vs Bitcoin Main discussion comes from: Some … Read more
This post starts being a pre-mortem analysis of what’s happening at the end of 2022 with the CBDC of the main economies: China, US and Europe. This map comes from conversations about Twitter and the need to skip the 30% fee imposed by Apple and Google on their App-Stores. The relative position of the components … Read more
This is an interesting article that shows how the basis of the blockchain business model. Source: https://niftycryptonomad.com/token-network-flywheels-blockchains-magical-business-model/
This article is gold, I have learned a lot about the basis of the theory of money and token valuation. Thanks Jay Pazos for sharing it. Acronyms to remind: TAM: Total addressable market. SAM: Serviceable available market. SOM: Serviceable obtainable market, the market that the company can realistically address. PSOM: %market penetration of the company in … Read more
I have had some conversations related to this during the last months. The topic So many companies/start-ups are opening ICO processes to fund their blockchain business. They create a business plan with a budget to fund it, the currency is in dollars/euros or other FIAT currency. The majority enable the investors to fund the project … Read more
This post is the first of a series of posts explaining the basic behavior of the blockchain technology. The way it’s explained is very didactic. https://medium.com/programmers-blockchain/create-simple-blockchain-java-tutorial-from-scratch-6eeed3cb03fa
Ethviewer.live is the type of visual pages you can view for hours, you learn with the different things that are represented, and enjoy how they move. Last weekend had the opportunity to discover this place with a group of people that were explaining me the details about: How the transactions are validated, how the blocks are … Read more