Chris Skinner

Tokenization and AI Are Building a Whole New World of Money

Those tokens were essentially the first abstraction of value – a way to represent ownership without moving the underlying asset.

Apr 22

Billions in Crypto Risk Being Lost Across Generations

Made me realise that, if I wasn’t around, what would happen to my crypto investments? How would my family, who are far less techie than me, survive?

Apr 6

Trade Bitcoin With Just Your Heartbeat

Here’s my vision of the near-term future. Money, investing, saving, trading will be just like Siri and Alex.

Mar 24

The Future of Money: What It Could Look Like by 2050

They will probably be amazed that such systems worked, but it’s a bit like me being amazed about how tally sticks worked a few centuries ago.

Mar 7

Artificial Intelligence

How JPMorgan Is Transforming Banking with Cloud, AI, and New Branches

There’s been a lot of talk this week about JPMorgan spending $20 billion on technology in 2026.

Mar 3

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Fight Scene and Robot New Year Show Signal a New Era

If you haven’t seen them, you need to, because both show how technology is developing faster than any of us know.

Feb 23

The Rise of AI Girlfriends: Have We Given up on Dating Each Other?

Are we giving up on dating and instead putting all of our demands onto digital people who are programmed to behave and speak exactly how we want?

Dec 9

What Killed Kodak, Blockbuster, and Nokia? The Same Thing That’s Killing Your Business

It is the curse of being so successful at one thing that you will do your utmost to stop anything affecting your one thing.

Oct 21

Dedollarisation? Not So Fast—the U.S. Dollar Still Owns 90% of Global FX

This year seems to mark a milestone as they found that the worldwide movement of currencies had risen to almost $10 trillion a day!

Oct 7

Bitcoin’s Billion-Dollar Question: Has Satoshi Nakamoto Finally Been Unmasked?

The whole point being peer-to-peer exchange of value with no intermediary bank or government involved. #crypto #Bitcoin

Apr 9

Why Does No One Deal With Emotional Assets?

Well, they are the things you treasure – often physical assets – but that no one knows you treasure them. #emotion #assets

Apr 8

The City of the Future: What Will It Look Like?

What amazes me is how it has transformed from a piece of desert land to a massive, bubbling behemoth in less than half a century. #Dubai

Jan 28

The Future of Work: Imagining Jobs in 2100

Will technology create a significant overhaul in how things get done? And will there be jobs in the future that don’t exist yet? #future

Dec 31

How the Internet Has Completely Taken Over Our Lives

A total of 5.45 billion people around the world were using the internet at the start of July 2024, equivalent to over 67% of the world’s population.

Oct 22

What’s Next in a Rapidly Changing World?

Groundbreaking technologies that will transform industries, economies, and everyday life. Here are some of the hottest future technologies to watch #tech

Oct 3

The Pros and Cons of Digital Identities

One specific discussion I presented which has stayed with me to this day: why do I need a document to prove my identity? #cash #digital #identity

Mar 26

Taylor Swift Is Now a Unicorn

It’s no longer good enough to be a millionaire, you need to aspire to be a billionaire. It made me realise my age. #Swift

Nov 6

Can We Live Without Money?

I was thinking the other day: why do we have money? Why are we slaves to the system? Can we break free? #money #views

Apr 25

Using Blockchain To Keep Track of Every Gold Bar in the World

The World Gold Council claim it’s all about integrity, transparency, trust and provenance. They call it the Gold Integrity Program. #gold #crypto

Oct 25

What if Cancel Culture Leads To Being Financially Cancelled?

What happens if you’re cancelled? It's similar to identity theft, as the theft of your identity is the same as being cancelled, isn’t it?

Apr 19

Can Elon Musk Solve World Hunger?

The worlds’ rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Does it always have to be that way? #wealth #hunger #poor #economy

Jan 18

What Is Spatial Finance?

Spatial finance is the integration of geospatial data and analysis into financial theory and practice. #finance #investing #investor

Oct 26

Blockchain is Dead

Apr 2