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The man who made a difference

I will tell you a story – this has all the ingredients of a success. A man could do anything for the love of his life and instead of picking the moon and stars for her, he did something more realistic – Prepared a sanitary napkin for her. What? What could he be thinking? We can talk of anything but this. Shame on him, bet he lost his family over this. Yes, he did, well almost. But he was unrelenting. Shunned by his mother, his wife and his community, he continued. This man was Arunachalam Murugnatham, and he was not some iPhone flashing, suit wearing, top notch. He was the son of handloom workers who went on to do random paltry jobs to run his family. Yes that is true love and that is the thought leadership that we use as a jargon in our air conditioned conference rooms. The man also possess funny bones. In an interview with BBC he says "Luckily I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the fu

Story of Bitcoin – The other kind of Money

Story of Bitcoin – The other kind of Money Bitcoin is no alien concept to the global money market right now, yet it has managed to remain elusive to a big population. With the digital currency gaining momentum, this cryptocurrency is being discussed amidst certain segments of the society. For the novices, here’s some background on what is a cryptocurrency – this is a form of digital currency which involves encryption techniques regulating the generation of units of currency and verifying the transfer of funds, operating independently without any governing bank. Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency in 2009. Since then, numerous cryptocurrencies have been created. These are frequently called altcoins, a combination of bitcoin alternative. Other such cryptocurrencies are Ethereum, Dash etc. Coming to the history of Bitcoin, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto began working on the Bitcoin concept in 2007. The concept was published in the year 2008 and released it