Why Silicon Valley VC is a bad fit for Africa and how to navigate through early stage investments Now that I got your attention, I would like to start by saying that I am in no position to give anyone financial advice, let alone to successful billionaires and influencers like…

One is Bitcoin is a digital Future Currency, and the other — that Bitcoin is the Currency of the Future After following our work in Blockchain and Healthcare in East Africa, my dear friend Johni Fisher from Buenos Aires, co-founder of ACHA (Americas Continental Health Alliance) said: “Alex, you should…

And if it will, what will be the (token) economics of it? I cannot help but feel somewhat disappointed and frustrated every time I read a CBInsights, RockHealth or Medical Futurist report, and blockchain technology is not even mentioned. The digital health innovation landscape systematically includes: AI, ML, telehealth, digital…

Connecting History, Blockchain, Timechain and Society — This long Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah weekend allowed me to binge on Seth MacFarlane’s hilarious sci-fi parody the Orville, and remind me how a 25th century utopian future might look like. …

Why we started Impact Rooms and the Africa Blockchain Center For those who know me, I love two things: Swiss chocolate…

Clubhouse is more than an application, it is the most important “blockchainized” social experiment going on now Much has been written lately about Clubhouse, including here on Medium. In a nutshell, it is the only voice-based social media application, filling a niche where text (like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Reddit) and…

*Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic; **Universal Health Income;*** Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, and Sensitivity For most of us 2020 will be remembered as annus horribilis, and as we continue to argue what are the best measures to combat COVID-19, one thing we all agree is that our…

DLT primitives and decentralization can alleviate the racial disparities of medical, social and economic determinants of Health On June 2, Axios reported that according to Google Trends “George Floyd” overtook “coronavirus” as the most popular search (below), and that in the span of a week, our interest in health and…

Why Blockchain is the “DNA therapy” for Healthcare Economics The reddish-brown tone of Bruegel’s “Triumph of Death” over earthly things (above), gives his army of skeletons an infernal stage that offers both the poor and rich, no hope. …