Monthly Archives: October 2018
TEZOS: ANATOMY OF A STARTUP CATASTROPHE
There are only a few months between the most successful ICO of 2017 and a turmoil of fights, lies and a flood of lawsuits at Tezos. In the meantime the company grew richer every day. Tezos generated $232 million in fall 2017 through a sensational Initial Coin Offering (ICO). It was the largest of its kind…
Blockchain: Banking the unbanked
Having a bank account is one important step out of poverty. But 39% of all adults have no access to banking. Blockchain could change that. Although not today. Photo by Geoff Greenwood on Unsplash “The unexpected tragedy of our current financial system is that those who have the least money have to pay the most to ship…
ICO anyone? The Psychology of the Crowd
Crowd psychology is a subject of study for the past 120 years. Crowds itself culminated in the mass movements of the 20th Century. As weird as it sounds: marketing a crowdfunding campaign and making propaganda for a totalitarian state follow similar rules. Here we look at what crowd psychology can tell us about making a…