Key points as I understand them:
1) Crypto, blockchain innovations are an outgrowth of financialiszation and quanitative easing bailout of 2008, new ways to prop up a system by pumping money into it
2) To an extent crypto & blockchain innovations help demystify money creation
1) Crypto, blockchain innovations are an outgrowth of financialiszation and quanitative easing bailout of 2008, new ways to prop up a system by pumping money into it
2) To an extent crypto & blockchain innovations help demystify money creation
https://twitter.com/HorvatSrecko/status/1473396355934703616
3) You can have good things like digital sovereignty within a country, central banks that are effective & under control of elected governments AND still make room of voters (give them accouts at Central Bank) & (non-monopolitstic) companies (let them devlpo & apporve apps)
4) To speed up & populaize the us e of electionic money Ecuador should have made use of Nano lending ("which is basically to lend a citizen 30 bucks or 50 bucks or 100 bucks with an indefinite term to pay back, which can be 10 years, 30 years, 50 years")
5) "Diem is a geopolitical effort on behalf of the United States to preserve the hegemony of the dollar. And if Facebook fails, someone else – PayPal or Google – will do it." "Transferwise" "BetteranCashalliance" and JPM coin respones to Bitcoin & Chinese e-money payment systems
6) Central Bank Digital Currencies "CBDCs are a necessary tool for any developing country that wants to establish some control over its economy" but it is crucial that the central banks are under democratic control, not private banker control
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