Business

One day we’ll all yawn about blockchain

In all the excitement of the latest cryptocurrency bull run—Tesla buying Bitcoin, Ethereum hitting all-time highs, Snoop Doge—it’s easy to overlook what makes the technology underpinning all this newfound loot so exciting. Mostly people just want to talk about the big price movements. And space shuttle cartoons. (Not that I’m against price talk.Wheee!) But real […]

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The Net must Alter its business model when it Needs to become truly International and multilingual

The multilingual net emerged within a couple of decades of the arrival of the criteria in 1994 which made the net as we understand it. The motto of this internationalization job force was “Creating the World Wide Internet net!” It accounts for roughly 60 percent of all internet content, and amazingly, that percentage is increasing  regardless of […]

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The cashless economy: How fintech is approaching the future of finance

Subscribe to The Ledger for expert weekly analysis on fintech’s big stories, delivered free to your inbox. Cashless payments were on the rise before the pandemic hit, and now, eight months into its grip on the U.S., their use is accelerating even faster. This was the topic of conversation at Fortune’s latest Brainstorm Finance panel […]