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Что скоро уничтожит Uber, Gett и «Яндекс.Такси»? - 3 views

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  • Что скоро уничтожит Uber, Gett и «Яндекс.Такси»?
  • После удачного тестирования системы Ethereum консорциумом крупнейших мировых банков появилось сообщение о первой небанковской компании, которая будет работать на принципах заключения контрактов, уже несколько лет используемых криптовалютой Bitcoin
  • Blockchain грозит изменить мир: в Калифорнии появился сервис такси, создатель которого грозится «похоронить» Uber и подобные ему буквально за несколько месяцев. Arcade City, основанный на принципе Blockchain и созданный бывшим водителем сервиса Uber Кристофером Дэвидом, абсолютно децентрализованный, как распределенная облачная технология: водители и клиенты могут самостоятельно устанавливать в нем тарифы и совершать платежи.
evgeny lavrov

http://www.wired.com/partners/bnymellon/futureofmoney/ - 0 views

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  • M-Pesa’s success has been phenomenal. Recent statistics show that fully one-quarter of the Kenyan economy flows through M-Pesa.
  • Other countries are taking a crack at a similar mobile digital currency. Vodacom
  • has launched M-Pesa in other African nations, as well as India and parts of Eastern Europe. In Latin America, Ecuador recently announced it would launch a nationwide digital currency, residing largely on people’s smartphones
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  • digital currency will bring the same safety and ease of monetary transfer that the M-Pesa has to Kenyans to the roughly 40% of Ecuadoreans who don’t have access to a bank account. Plus, it offers Ecuadoreans the opportunity to start saving
  • What is increasingly evident is that the traditional role of banks is being reimagined by non-banking software and hardware companies
  • Bitcoin will increasingly enter the mainstream and challenge the traditional rails of finance along which money has moved.
  • Goods of all kinds can reach customers in places that just didn’t make financial sense in the past.
  • This leads to the increased competition for all kinds of things, especially for information-based products and services that the United States leans on for much of its economy. Digital currencies, Bitcoin in particular, will lower economic barriers.
  • It might be different kinds of loans, payroll and other small business services and specialized accounts that serve specific needs and populations.
Anna Dubinina

Биткоины официально запретят в России | Реклама Маркетинг PR - SOSTAV.RU - 0 views

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CIS economy Political запрет bitcoins

shared by Anna Dubinina on 23 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Министерство финансов разработало поправки в закон "О Центральном банке", которые запрещают в России выпуск и оборот криптовалют.
  • Минфин новыми поправками вводит официальный запрет на выпуск и оборот виртуальных валют в России
Maria Gurova

Virgin Galactic Wants to Fly You From LA to Tokyo (Through Space, In One Hour) | Mother... - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • When Virgin Galactic finally takes its first tourists to space, it'll just be a a stepping stone to what the company's ultimate mission is: Flying people from one place on Earth to another place on Earth, just like any other airline. Except in this version, you'll travel through space and be able to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in an hour.
  • He's discussed creating a supersonic passenger plane himself, but why settle for an incremental change when, if it works, "point-to-point suborbital space transportation" promises to be a complete paradigm shift?
  • Virgin's daring, sometimes insane chairman Richard Branson has long had his eyes on a supersonic commercial airline
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  • The Concorde failed for a lot of reasons, not least of which the fact that it was very, very expensive. So far, hundreds of people  have shelled out $250,000 to take a quick suborbital spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, but are they going to be willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to save 12 hours flying halfway around the world?
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