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UK Government Survey Shows 45% of Britons Would Ban Cryptocurrencies for Environmental Reasons
10.11.2021
Just before the 26th United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP-26), the UK government polled 3,071 adults from Britain to ask them their opinions on cryptocurrencies and the crypto industry’s effects on climate change. According to the survey, 45% of Britons would support banning...
Epic vs. Apple - what does the verdict REALLY mean?
13.9.2021
There are, uhh, quite a few opinions on this
Central Bankers Say Bitcoin Is High Risk Investment, Poor Store of Value, Could Collapse
10.9.2021
Two central bank governors have shared their opinions about bitcoin after the cryptocurrency became legal tender in El Salvador. The governor of the Bank of Mexico sees bitcoin as a high-risk investment and a poor store of value while the governor of Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank...
NFT Survey With Over 40K Respondents Indicates Americans Trust NFT Investments More Than Britons
8.9.2021
In 2021, two very distinct crypto trends stood out which include non-fungible token (NFT) assets and decentralized finance (defi), as billions of dollars in crypto has flooded into these sectors. On September 7, Piplsay, a global consumer research platform, polled 30,870 Americans and 9,170 Britons...
When You Buy an NFT, You Don’t Completely Own It – Here’s Why
5.9.2021
Dinusha Mendis, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law and Acting Deputy Dean (Research), Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University.
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NFTs or non-fungible tokens first captured the public imagination when a digital collage by an artist named Beeple sold for...
How Countries Use Digital ID to Exclude Vulnerable People
29.8.2021
Eve Hayes de Kalaf, Research Associate, CLACS University of London, and School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen.
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The world has become interconnected at a level we never before imagined possible. States, banking, communications, transport, tech,...
Nixon’s Decision to Delink the Dollar From Gold Still Hounds the IMF and Africa
22.8.2021
US President Richard Nixon’s decision to end the US promise to convert dollars into gold changed the global financial system. Getty Images
Danny Bradlow, SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations, University of Pretoria.
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Five decades ago this month,...
What Is the Metaverse? A High-Tech Plan to Facebookify the World
15.8.2021
Nick Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology.
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”, functioning in an “embodied internet” that...
Why Jack Dorsey’s Square Paid USD 29B for Afterpay
8.8.2021
Jack Dorsey. Lien Duong, Senior Lecturer in School Accounting of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Sonny Pham, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Curtin University.
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The AUD 39bn (USD 29bn) that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Square is paying...
CBDC: A Solution in Search of a Problem?
6.8.2021
Below is a speech by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller before the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, August 5.
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The payment system is changing in profound ways as individuals demand faster payments, central banks including the Fed respond, and nonbank entities seek...
Bitcoin 'Innovation Is Real' & 9 Other Key Takeaways From Speech By SEC Chair
4.8.2021
This is a speech by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief Gary Gensler before the Aspen Security Forum on August 3.
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Top 10 key statements:
Satoshi Nakamoto’s innovation is real. It has been and could continue to be a catalyst for change in the fields of finance and money.No...
Want To Fix Financial Literacy? Focus on Billionaires & Politicians
1.8.2021
Agata Soroko, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa.
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Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic threw the global economy into a crisis in March 2020, I wrote an essay expressing my hope that the unfolding financial collapse wouldn’t be used to justify...
Safari 15 Opinions
28.7.2021
It was interesting that when Safari 15 was dropping at this last WWDC, in my circles at least, I mostly heard enthusiasm. Like the colors-in-the-browser-controls stuff was a neat trick and fun to play with. And there were other …
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Damien Hirst’s NFT Art Project: What We’ll Discover When It's Over
25.7.2021
Paul Dylan-Ennis, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin.
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English artist Damien Hirst’s latest project, “The Currency”, is an artwork in two forms. Its physical form is 10,000 unique hand-painted A4 sheets covered in colorful dots. In...
Elon Musk Should Listen to Cathie Wood on Bitcoin
24.7.2021
Elon Musk. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube, Bloomberg.
Part of what many observers expected to see during Wednesday's Bitcoin (BTC) discussion featuring Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was a debate regarding the merits...
Axie Infinity: Games Where People Earn And Transform Gaming
23.7.2021
Drew Cattanach, Lecturer in Computer Games Development, University of Westminster.
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The ultimate point of playing video games has always been to have fun. Whether it’s Space Invaders or Sonic or Red Dead Redemption, you hit the start button and do your thing until the game is over – and then...
Future of Digital Euro ‘Not Clear Yet,’ Former Eurogroup Official Says
22.7.2021
Europe’s digital currency project has made some progress recently, with the Eurozone’s central bank moving to its next stage. Critics point, however, to the continuing lack of clarity around the design and purpose of the digital euro after a decade-long delay, if cryptocurrency is taken...
Here's What Everyone Missed in The Dorsey, Musk, and Wood Bitcoin Talk
22.7.2021
On Wednesday, a highly-anticipated conversation regarding Bitcoin (BTC) between Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took place online as part of The B Word initiative. While most have focused on the newsworthy aspects of the talk, such...
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21.7.2021
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How International Fiat Fund Hurts Cash-Strapped Countries (FYI, El Salvador)
18.7.2021
The IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/the_imf
In this commentary, Bernhard Reinsberg, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow, and Thomas Stubbs, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Royal Holloway, University...