Square and its Silicon Valley problems

It is a very odd world where a near $3bn valuation of a six year-old company via an initial public offering is reported as a “disappointment”. Yet this is the one we are living in today, with the flotation of payments company Square on the New York Stock…

Hi, I’ll be happy to share some thoughts about market based solutions to facilitate compensation of “healthy relationships”.

Imagine that you’re going fishing with a net. The problem is that the holes in your net are too large… and good sized fishes are swimming right through them. You’d capture a lot more fish if the holes…

Frankly, I’m not persuaded that you understand how markets work, and what the causal and correlation relationships are that move towards and away from what you desire: better software for the actual users.

While I agree with your sentiment — that software frequently reflects the needs of just about every interest except that…

I’m not expert in Bitcoin, but I do know that markets never exist for very long without transaction fees. Eventually, they reach a certain point where resistance is met, and then a disruptor comes in. This is what happened with brokerage commissions, and also with banking fees. I don’t see where a “hard fork” is a real solution. Eventually these fees…