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The blockchain applications market is unravelling along a segmentation of activity that is spread along two sets of variables: private vs. public blockchains, and new vs. existing business models. ”
Cryptocurrencies are not evil and are not for money launderers and scammers. They are for entrepreneurs, technologists, change-the-world dreamers, and anyone who believes they can (and will) enable new business models, new types of organizations, and new ways to service consumers and businesses alike. ”
How do we create new value? You create value by running services on the blockchain. ”
A blockchain-based startup could have a product/service as part of what they are developing, but their stride is best hit when they are also creating a self-sustaining circular economy that is supported by their own currency or tokens and where there is a transactional loop between earning and spending these tokens within their ecosystem. ”
In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York. ”
It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public. ”
Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. ”
President Obama came into office in '08 with the belief that - and the public's belief in him - that he was moderate, that he wasn't a big spender. ”
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ”
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ”