🌍The Bank of England recently provided a progress update on the #design phase of the #digitalpound and announced the creation of a ‘Digital Pound Lab’ to enable “hands-on experimentation” as part of its ongoing preparation for a potential #CBDC.
https://t.co/wwFXx4rpkZ
🌎The Central Bank of Brazil reveals 13 new use cases for its DREX #CBDC pilot, including real estate #tokenization and automated car transactions.
https://t.co/45n3otjzZQ
JUST IN: Firstpost America reports that the Kingdom of Bhutan has “nearly a third of its GDP” in #Bitcoin 👀
"Bhutan has become the 4th largest government holder of Bitcoin" 🇧🇹
https://t.co/5XtrhLepTz
🌎The Bank of Canada published a paper on “The Role of Public Money in the Digital Age”, arguing the need for a central bank digital currency (#CBDC). Check it out!
https://t.co/sB4flME5sY
Thank you to everyone who attended the Island Bitcoin Community’s #pizzaday event in Kingston 🇯🇲
Attendees used several wallets to buy pizza, including @LNFlash@blinkbtc@walletofsatoshi @coinoswallet
@LNFlash is proud to be a sponsor, and look forward to next year!⚡️
Whenever we begin to wake up to how we're being screwed, conspiracy fictions distract and confuse us and send us back to sleep. So why DO so many people obsess about false stories, but ignore the real ones? In the hope of finding out, I wrote this https://t.co/HgLqDPwqZs
Sub-Saharan Africa is dominating the African Bitcoin Ecosystem.💥
Here is our updated infographic for Q2 2024 now displayed on a map of our beautiful continent so you can see where the action is.
Slowly but surely, Bitcoin is bringing freedom to Africa.
https://t.co/Q0RuBbvZ6U
The GABV’s 16th Annual Meeting hosted by @bancaetica kicked off today. The Opening Ceremony had two thought-provoking keynotes, incase you missed it, you can access it here: https://t.co/og92dEx75J
A few impressions from today can be seen below.
The @ecb published an update on its work on the digital euro scheme’s Rulebook Development Group (#RDG).
What is the role of the RDG? The RDG has the task to define the roles of all actors in the #digitaleuro ecosystem - including end users, vendors and acquirers. It is the ultimate goal of the RDG to ensure a sophisticated experience, while also enabling competition and innovation. What did the update include?
1️⃣The first chapters of the rulebook are now drafted. It covers the functional and operational mode, the technical scheme requirements, and the adherence model of the digital euro scheme.
2️⃣The update clarified the various digital euro services around access management, liquidity managements, and transaction management.
3️⃣The update document also provide concrete flows for digital euro onboarding, transactions, and other processes as well as a high-level architecture.
4️⃣It was also mentioned that digital euro funding will be possible both via online money accounts as well as cash (via ATM and bank branches)
📄 Source: https://t.co/PNvMLJXPzI
The Digital Euro Conference (#DEC24) is coming - only 1 month left. This year’s DEC will bring together global thought-leaders and experts to discuss about retail CBDCs (#rCBDCs), wholesale CBDCs (#wCBDCs), #stablecoins and deposits tokens as well as #tokenization. (1/6)
IT'S HERE🔥
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Let's reiterate: "A 0.1% global tax on financial transactions would raise over $400 billion just in Europe and the US," which could be spent to address climate-change issues. Insights from @MazzucatoM at #COP28UAE#TobinTax
"We need to go from billions to trillions. If we actually design an outcome-oriented economy then we really could do it, by walking the talk." 🚶👣
@MazzucatoM, @IIPP_UCLshares her insights on the first announcements from #COP28UAE at the #COP28 Climate Hub 🌍
@ClimateCrisisAG
How can a #CBDC be implemented on a public #DLT and which benefits could it bring? @ny_remo suggests a CBDC design on a layer-2 zero-knowledge (#ZK) rollup.
Diving into some details 👇👇 (1/9)
How can we study finance in the contemporary moment? Read Camilla Carabini’s case for a Feminist Anthropology of Finance and why the Gens approach is indispensable. https://t.co/P3kNwlKq4z… #researchingcapitalism#anthrotwitter
Blog from @boasblogs ✨
How can we study finance in the contemporary moment?
Read the case for a Feminist Anthropology of Finance and why the Gens approach is indispensable
By @Camunz#ResearchingCapitalism#AnthroTwitter
https://t.co/qGvE9ZbBD5