<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:24:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@cryptopodium/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Is Blockchain a General Purpose Technology?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Historically, eras of technological progress and economic growth have been driven by a number of key technologies, known as general-purpose technologies (GPTs) . According to Bresnahan and Trajtenberg’s]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/isblockchainageneralpurposetechnology-aoikjvydw1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/isblockchainageneralpurposetechnology-aoikjvydw1</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:08:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fluid Consumer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fluid Consumer is a term coined by Teo Correia, the Global Senior Managing Director of Accenture's Consumer Goods & Services industry group, to describe the digitally enabled consumer. In his book,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/digitalage/@cryptopodium/thefluidconsumer-9xduqrhd9i</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/digitalage/@cryptopodium/thefluidconsumer-9xduqrhd9i</guid><category><![CDATA[digitalage]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:51:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's FinTech?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In short, FinTech is the contraction of Financial and Technology. It's an umbrella term describing everything related to technologies serving financial services, from technology bricks to products, services,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/whatsfintech-4x6rblcz58</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/whatsfintech-4x6rblcz58</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:00:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WPjiZX8xpKKQrJqVgrSAR46h1b1xTWZDwr25CWGbQD8ZC1Hi6JfpxrdbsdrWuuDbvoVzZT1iXSYDzmyXk6k61ZxmimN1V37FcUX3HQSm6dji3MyuzuUSHKx34geq9RBWAymYh1L2QpECAERpAvZvym5qS4keNbzGrL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Digitization to Digitalization]]></title><description><![CDATA[The history of humanity is undeniably marked by technological evolution. We, as a species, are particularly characterized by Technology. In other terms, our human evolution is tied to our knowledge and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/fromdigitizationtodigitalization-vmxwsapo8y</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/fromdigitizationtodigitalization-vmxwsapo8y</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:35:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing Optimism]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of my intentions with this blog is to share a realistically optimist point of view on our world and society. Many of us are drawn into a very pessimistic feeling about where we are heading]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/optimism-pm2m97bi9h</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/optimism-pm2m97bi9h</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 12:38:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blockchain Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[While public blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum were the first to emerge, private and consortium blockchains that restrict access to specific users witnessed an increasing speed of implementations]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/decentralization/@cryptopodium/typesofblockchain-xb9wyo03yw</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/decentralization/@cryptopodium/typesofblockchain-xb9wyo03yw</guid><category><![CDATA[decentralization]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:41:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[General Terms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before I start telling you about all the wonderful and mundane things revolving around blockchain technology, let's first revisit some terms.  To do so, I'm going to use a couple of statements and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@cryptopodium/generalterms-kur8bokp0d</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@cryptopodium/generalterms-kur8bokp0d</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:14:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is blockchain?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blockchain is a set of technologies allowing us to build a new kind of network infrastructure enabling the transfer of value. Network of Value Vs. Network of Information I like using the expression network]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/whatisblockchain-kvo3e3tf8c</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/whatisblockchain-kvo3e3tf8c</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:36:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gP9ef1j4NYaZDCycmbQeJKbE8AEXvfwPDDRKvvKUDJiXS3Q2hGKVsDKW7A751XTbRma2yBm7ycLJWHGdLMCyTqLCvs5ZMKeJ7h7AfEm2aMvyYG1zi5MM9A3emxBFqnpoEepdAyak82DcA7SMm6iRuVernifUdAY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Decentralization & Scalability]]></title><description><![CDATA[Would centralization undermine blockchain technology’s purpose as a shared ledger? When we address the topic of centralization or decentralization in blockchain technology, one must be specific. The]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/decentralization-ybhsq20dnc</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@cryptopodium/decentralization-ybhsq20dnc</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:23:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another one I kept for myself (or is it away from myself?)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Choosing optimism This blog post was written on May 9, 2018. I forgive myself for holding myself back on many things I wanted to do but didn't want to do. One of my intentions with this blog is to share]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/another-one-i-kept-for-myself-or-is-it-away-from-myself</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/another-one-i-kept-for-myself-or-is-it-away-from-myself</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 22:26:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/6VvuHGsoU2QBt9MXeXNdDuyd4Bmd63j7zJymDTWgdcJjo1Vhqi5U5WFgLaK4185Fwsq5Y265eyzAgZMHqBFNzT43vGxk8FnT4z1KURDwKWxW169hqcZqJHrmLjqHan?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Transparency and personal Integrity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Original title: Vulnerability: what happened to my writing attempt and what I discovered (text written on the 1st of April 2018, Bali) For the past couple of months, I found myself stuck when it came to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/vulnerability-what-happened-to-my-writing-attempt-and-what-i-discovered-written-on-the-1st-of-april-2018</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/vulnerability-what-happened-to-my-writing-attempt-and-what-i-discovered-written-on-the-1st-of-april-2018</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:53:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression? I don't know...]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was talking to Khlayla -my aunt- last week, and I said: "I may seem like the happiest person but also like the most depressed" I guess I have been both, and sometimes I am still both. Maybe]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/depression-i-don-t-know</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/depression-i-don-t-know</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 18:44:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVJ2SVhDmmumdPfnVEcahMce9nMwwksSDdRvagURUT4ajenrbAPknucrUB9nVM4HBfxAidWSEYPgSDxLkd6D3Kwh4NcTRMustrevKm3G5cLVGaq2g78?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you want to do?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What do you want to do? We often ask each other, ourselves. Well, I never really had an answer to this question in terms of doing something in particular. So they ask: "what do you want to become?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/what-do-you-want-to-do</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@cryptopodium/what-do-you-want-to-do</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 09:35:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9ULKNfmQJ645KnKWSDRBx2iHcrvrJmjkYjL2HfNXRiEqwUDrf811PMBT983kviG9PnMuafv6LGZhuci?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be The Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello world, Just a quick introduction as I want to share with you a piece of the vision that I have for a new system. I wrote this for an assignment back in July 2019. Since then I have been digging into]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@cryptopodium/be-the-change</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@cryptopodium/be-the-change</guid><category><![CDATA[blockchain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:26:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty in contrasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The beauty of human kind resides in its contrasts. We are genuinely good yet naturally cruel, incredibly strong yet instantly weak and highly complex yet beautifully simple. Accepting who we truly are]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@cryptopodium/beauty-in-contrasts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@cryptopodium/beauty-in-contrasts</guid><category><![CDATA[blockchain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cryptopodium]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:42:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BgxWBRxjvNhppUjpaAaBDXJRZLu3AdaGMqihzn3odS18vy1C1GAsgJZXFmsmrLzGynFoYhNmqo8ZgRSUk5fScQaRVsyXv135KWEemw1MUZeAYUkTW4KJW6jpMWT6PaGG4kdcMQMrUJ77f6pJ2akSkic8jV8AuWQGxAmBBii5jg4d51g?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>