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Reassessing Expectations for Blockchain and Development

Michael Pisa

May 14, 2018

This brief essay explores a key but often overlooked hurdle to using blockchain solutions, which is the complexity that decentralized solutions necessarily introduce. At times, the benefits of such solutions appear to exceed the added cost of complexity but often they do not. With this tradeoff in m...

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Plan B for Development – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim

February 09, 2018

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on robots in the workplace, multilateral cooperation, and the development potential of blockchain.

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Plan B for Development – Podcast with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim

Rajesh Mirchandani

February 09, 2018

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on robots in the workplace, multilateral cooperation, and the development potential of blockchain.

Blog Post

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Mania and Its Implications for Technology-Led Social Enterprise

Michael Pisa

January 25, 2018

One of the bubblier aspects of the recent enthusiasm for all things blockchain has been the rise in popularity of initial coin offerings (ICOs), also known as token sales. By design, the acronym calls to mind the more traditional fundraising model of initial public offerings (IPOs), in which compani...