WELCOME TO THE TOKEN WORLD In 2016, a major report had been published on the changes that blockchain technology would bring to financial markets, reducing the need for reconciliations and bringing many billions of annual savings1 to the financial industry. At the time, my opinion was that the Distributed Ledger Technology introduced by the Bitcoin … Lire la suite
Distributed Ledger Technologies The Blockchain and the Bitcoin have already been live for a decade. We are reviewing in this set of articles the caracteristics of the Blockchain, the changes made to the Blockchain, the alternative distributed ledgers to the Blockchain, the difficulties to run financial services on a distributed ledger without a legal tender. … Lire la suite
Distributed Ledger Technologies The Blockchain and the Bitcoin have already been live for a decade. We are reviewing in this set of articles the caracteristics of the Blockchain, the changes made to the Blockchain, the alternative distributed ledgers to the Blockchain, the difficulties to run financial services on a distributed ledger without a legal tender. … Lire la suite
Distributed Ledger Technologies The Blockchain and the Bitcoin have already been live for a decade. We are reviewing in this set of articles the caracteristics of the Blockchain, the changes made to the Blockchain, the alternative distributed ledgers to the Blockchain, the difficulties to run financial services on a distributed ledger without a legal tender. … Lire la suite
Distributed Ledger Technologies The Blockchain and the Bitcoin have already been live for a decade. We will review in this set of articles the caracteristics of the Blockchain, the changes made to the Blockchain, the alternative distributed ledgers to the Blockchain, the difficulties to run financial services on a distributed ledger without a legal tender. … Lire la suite
When techs attack -article also published on Linkedin on 7 June 2017 – The world is all excited about the emergence and development of new technologies in such a wide variety of disciplines as the natural sciences, life sciences, knowledge of our universe and engineering sciences. IS THE WORLD GOING FASTER? To put this … Lire la suite
Quelques lignes en anglais pour pratiquer son articulation, le rythme, l’accent tonique, …et le Middle-English Tongue Twister * We surely shall see the sun shine soon. * Which witch wished which wicked wish ? * Sly Sam slurps Sally’s soup * How many cans can a canner can if a canner could can cans ? … Lire la suite
Quelques lignes en anglais pour pratiquer son articulation, le rythme, l’accent tonique, …et le Middle-English Rythm The Pied Piper of Hamelin (v. 111, 118) by Robert Browning 111 Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, 112 Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, 113 Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 114 Fathers, mothers, … Lire la suite
Pour s’entraîner à mettre l’accent tonique en anglais Crescendo In the Valley of the Cauteretz by Alfred Lord Tennyson All along the valley, stream that flashest white, Deepening thy voice with the deepening of the night, All along the valley, where thy waters flow, I walked with one I loved two and thirty years ago. … Lire la suite
Middle-English Près de la moitié des mots anglais sont d’origine française, et presque tous les mots de plus de cinq lettres. Donc pour que les français comprennent les anglais, ou s’expriment facilement en anglais, il suffit de choisir ces mots là…En voilà plusieurs centaines pour commencer : A abandon, abattoir, abdication, abdomen, abdominal, aberrant, aberration, … Lire la suite