“In the investment world, you can only make money if you think different from everyone else. Bridgewater has prevented groupthink by inviting dissenting opinions from every employee in the company. When employees share independent viewpoints instead of conforming to the majority, there’s a much higher chance that Bridgewater will make…

A few separate conversations with people, who had concerns on our future, especially related with Artificial Intelligence and automation, motivated me to write this article. While some had philosophical questions such as ‘Will AI dominate humanity? Then will we have a dismal future?,’ others had rather practical concerns such as…

3. PROMISE VERSUS AS-IS We are observing exponential technological progress made on top of exponential technology development today. For this reason, what the authors observed and saw as a promise may be different as of today. Out of many revolutionary promises the authors elaborated, my key interest and enthusiasm first…

2. SWOT ANALYSIS: WHERE DO WE SEE OPPORTUNITIES? So far, we have looked into important dynamics of the technology in various facets. Due to its newness of the technology and confusion rising from unprecedented novelty, we had much more to discuss than expected. …

■ Frictions in the Real World Even if Bitcoin itself is difficult to hack, there does exist potential for security risks at various stages of the transaction process. 98 Bitcoins are held in wallets and traded through digital currency exchanges. There are various security risks inherent in each of these…

■ Miners Economics Becoming Miners (Nodes) Miners are a supportive and incentivized community that processes Bitcoin’s transactions and keep everything running smoothly 54 A node is a powerful computer that runs the Bitcoin software and helps to keep Bitcoin running by participating in the relay of information. Some nodes are…

(C) Technology Issues The technology space is getting matured but not yet ready for practical adoption due to its complexity and innate technological issues. “Bitcoin is created through an energy-intensive ‘mining’ process that uses high computing power to solve a complex mathematical equation, ‘proving’ that an ‘anonymous miner’ used the…

CONTEMPLATION: SEEKING EVOLUTION OVER REVOLUTION The challenges the technology is facing internally and externally seem no small matters and, in certain aspect, it appears limitations far outweigh the potentials. …

IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES The world looks very different under the blockchain revolution. In some aspects, they sound too good to be true. If this new future is a great leap-up from our current reality, — especially in terms of economic inclusion of billions of unbanked and excluded population from prosperity, of…