News: blockchain MEP Eva Kaili corruption arrest, Nigerian CBDC rewrite, BBC blockchain misadventures
RMS Titanic NFTs: You wouldn’t download a corpse.
Tag: sand dollar
Libra Shrugged — Chapter 15: Central bank digital currencies
An excerpt a year after the book’s publication — because I keep referring people to this chapter. Buy the book for more!
Facebook, WhatsApp Pay, Libra/Diem, CBDC news — Diem live in March?
There’s no evidence that Facebook’s cleared Diem with regulators in the US, the EU and Switzerland — as they pinky-swore they would absolutely do before launch. But I’m sure they wouldn’t go back on their word.
FT Alphaville Unofficial Tech Chat — David Gerard answers your crypto market questions
Digital gold, Bitcoin mining, CBDCs, DC/EP, Libra and Facebook, corporate crypto purchases, Avalanche and mathcoins, Tether and what happens when the music stops. And Craig Wright.
News: Filecoin, CoinDesk, money-laundering busts, Libra barred until 2023, BitMEX and Roko’s Basilisk
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye.
Central bank digital currency — Bahamas Sand Dollar, Eastern Caribbean DCash
Who technically backs the e-money on your phone is much less interesting than what you can do with it.