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The following article is an excerpt from the book Everything Transaction. Facebook caused quite a stir back in 2019 when it announced plans to launch a global cryptocurrency called Libra. But gradually everything went quiet and it now seems that the project has been scrapped completely. What went wrong?On 18 June 2019, Facebook ...

There have so far been two major ‘phases’ of the internet, which are now retrospectively referred to as Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Opinions differ on the precise beginning and end of these two phases, so the periods are not clearly defined – and the burgeoning Web 3.0 phase is no different.  The first two phases of the internetAlthough the...

The crypto evolution – or is it a revolution? – is challenging the status quo of...

Open Insurance continues to be the next game changer in insurance. The second ed...

It probably won’t be long now until insurance companies – just like banks – with PSD2 are required to develop API portals to share customer data with third parties. Insurers have a choice: to wait it out and treat it as a compliance issue when the time comes, or to view it as an opportunity right now, according to Maarten Bakker, a partne...