Finance

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Crypto’s Planetary Computer

In order to secure the transactions that the decentralized network of blockchain executes, a worldwide network of decentralized computations is executed, increasing in power and capabilities daily. The resources of energy, hardware and ingenuity that are accruing in this planetary computer are economically rewarded. Too many people miss the point of the positive sum game

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Becoming A World Citizen With Bitnation

The new decentralized structures of social organization allow memberships not based on exclusive geographical criteria. As we experiment with what is possible, there are fundamental differences with how socio-economic transformations happen today compared to the past: they are necessarily more peaceful in a world full of nuclear weapons, and they are software-driven as we enter

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Streaming African solar energy in your Bitcoin wallet worldwide

The Sun Exchange is a marketplace where you can purchase solar cells and have them power businesses and communities in the sunniest locations on earth, earning decades of income backed by the power of the sun. You lease solar cells purchased through The Sun Exchange to hospitals, factories, schools and other end-users, earning you decades of solar

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Making Makers

Inspiring and catalyzing creativity worldwide, Mark Hatch has been instrumental in jumpstarting the Maker Movement. He has now joined Network Society Ventures as a General Partner, leveraging his knowledge, skills, and passion to invest together with us in a new generation of startups. The opportunity to transform your ideas into reality is so powerful, that

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How Can Bitcoin Help Emancipate Billions And Help Food Security

Through the fundamental invention of the Blockchain, we now have a tool that, through the use of planet-wide communications networks and smartphones, can put a Western city-dweller and an Indonesian fisherman on equal footing Through the fundamental invention of the Blockchain, we now have a tool that, through the use of planet-wide communications networks and

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Bitcoin Deflation Helps An Ecologically Sustainable Future

Our psychological levers have a great influence on our behavior. The flipping of perceived value of spending and investment from an inflationary currency to a deflationary currency will influence the big and small decisions we make daily. It is likely that this change will non-trivially shape the impact in energy use, resource allocation and management, and

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Strategic Marketing Evolves – lecture at the California School of International Management

Here is the slidecast of my lecture from yesterday at the California School of International Management | View | Upload your own David Orban “Strategic Marketing Evolves – The changing role of brands in the network age” Disintermediation is immediacy. After a hiatus of ten thousand years, during which more and more sophisticated tools were

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