Opinion
Mougayar: Craig Wright's Satoshi Nakamoto claim is a PR stunt
“Instead, it sounds like, it looks like a PR stunt. That person, Sasoshi Nakamoto, I wouldn't expect A PR stunt from that person. I would expect a technical kind of undertaking when he would come out, if that is the case.”
Insight
Mougayar: Blockchain unbundles trust, threatening traditional intermediaries
“Because what the blockchain does, it unbundles trust. And whoever was performing a trust function now is going to be threatened because trust can be accomplished by the network.”
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Mougayar: Future blockchain apps will bypass the World Wide Web
“So we're going to be seeing in the future blockchain applications, and blockchain applications do not need the web. They go and attach themselves directly on the internet.”
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Mougayar: Every existing web service will get a decentralized version
“So just about every version of anything that we see today on the web will have and might have a version of a decentralized version of it.”
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Mougayar: Blockchain will replace physical in-person identity verification
“All of those old ways of verifying things by being physically present are going to be replaced by the blockchain.”
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Mougayar: Blockchain scalability will not be a showstopper
“Right now, I don't think scalability is, is going to be a showstopper. It is a challenge, but you put six engineers in a room and they will solve the problem.”
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Mougayar: OpenBazaar eliminates marketplace fees, saving sellers 8% to 10%
“In the, on, on OpenBazaar, and there are no listing fees. There are no fees that eBay or Etsy, whoever is in the middle, is going to be asking the sellers typically. So off the bat, there's like eight to nine to 10% that you can save initially.”
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Mougayar: Banks will become back-end infrastructure for digital front-end apps
“There will be many scenarios, but one of them is that they become more of a back end. If you think about it, now we are connecting more and more services to our bank account, and we are manipulating this money, but without touching the bank account itself. And…”
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Mougayar: German utility RWE partners with Slock.it for automated EV charging
“There's a company, there's an energy company in Germany, AWE that's going to be working with a company called Slocket, where they're going to allow electric vehicles to charge themselves when they are stopped, let's say, at a red light And automatically it's g…”
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Mougayar: Brooklyn neighbors are trading excess energy via Ethereum
“Today, there's a street in Brooklyn where neighbors are selling and buying excess energy from each other on an Ethereum-enabled blockchain service. So they are going peer-to-peer. And this is happening right now.”
Opinion
Mougayar: The World Wide Web has become too centralized
“So we could argue that the web as it is today 20 plus years after its first commercialization has become a bit too, too centralized for our liking.”
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Mougayar: Blockchains will eventually become invisible to users
“In the long term, blockchains are going to be invisible. And when they become invisible, then I think we will know that they are doing something useful.”
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Mougayar: Identity on the blockchain will be a major emerging sector
“There are probably, there's probably at least a dozen companies I know of that are tackling the identity issue on the blockchain in a different way, and there will be different ways to skin that kind cat, but identity on the blockchain is, is going to be a big…”
Insight
Mougayar: Banks seek self-improvement, not self-disruption from blockchain
“My observation is that the banks want to improve themselves. But they don't want to disrupt themselves.”
Insight
Mougayar: Banks struggle to integrate startup culture into corporate environments
“Yeah, but then the real task is to bring the animal home and see if you can domesticate them or not. That is the real task because a startup is wild. And so can they bring something wild into the domesticated environment and let them thrive or not? Or will the…”
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Mougayar: Enterprise blockchain strategies based only on cost savings are weak
“If your blockchain strategy is, is about saving costs and then doing things a little bit faster, I would say it's a weak blockchain strategy. There has to be an innovation component in your strategy.”
Insight
Mougayar: Enterprise blockchain adoption is 80% business and 20% technology
“I keep saying this is about 80% business and 20% technology.”
Insight
Mougayar: Corporate blockchain labs should aim to obsolete themselves quickly
“Their job should be to obsolete themselves very quickly because their job is to infiltrate, to make all, to make this blockchain thing infiltrate everywhere. And that's, their job will be done when they are out of a job.”
Opinion
Mougayar: Half of current blockchain innovations are projects, not startups
“Right now, maybe half of the innovation that I'm seeing in the blockchain space, I would label them more as projects as opposed to startups.”
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Mougayar: Active blockchain networks cannot be stopped
“No, it doesn't matter because the technology is already in the wild. It's already on wheels. It's flying. It's a nonstop kind of set of computers. Blockchains, once, once you turn them on and they are bona fide blockchains, it's, that's it. They cannot be stop…”
