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In a feat of logic, the BitPlastic, Xapo, CoinKite, and Bit-x cards each claim to have arrived before the others FROM THE MOMENT in 2009 when Bitcoin debuted as the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency, I knew it was a question of time before someone introduced the world’s first cryptocurrency-based debit card. What I hadn’t expected […]
Maybe it was his red face. Maybe it was the steam coming from his ears. Either way, it was clear that Brent was worked up. Asked what was bugging him, Brent replied that, just the evening before, his neighbor said something rather insulting. “You’re in marketing?” the neighbor said. “So is Mike, down the street.” The […]
EACH TIME A NEW generation rises, supposedly every 20 or so years, two things happen. The first thing that happens is that someone decides the new generation needs a name. There have been deserved names like “Greatest” and creative names like “Baby Boomers” and “Baby Busters.” As for names like “Generation X,” “Generation Y,” and […]
Fiserv invited me to write this post for its official blog, The Point, about INV, our new fintech accelerator. To read it in its entirety on Fiserv’s website, click here. To learn more about Fiserv, click here. If innovation in the financial services arena was ever a luxury, it is no longer. In a dizzying upward […]
A fact of digital life is that the harder we work to keep data secure, the harder bad guys will work to break in. But what happens when government wants to break in? The FBI has been trying to break into the iPhone owned by Syed Rizwan Farook. You will recall that it was Farook […]