Future of Money

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Money at the Speed of Thought: How ‘Fast Money’ Will Shape the Future
The sheer speed of crypto is creating a new rhythm to collective financial projects, and it is going to be truly wild.
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Miami’s Multiple Money Visions
This week’s big NFT event showed an innovation moment in full swing (even if many of the ideas on show are unlikely to make it).
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Universal Stablecoins, the End of Cash and CBDCs: 5 Predictions for the Future of Money
Decentralized and centralized finance will blur together, El Salvador will be a reality check, and cash and CBDCs will fade away.
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Number of Central Banks Exploring retail CBDC (Bank for International Settlements)
CBDCs for the People? Where the Current State of Digital Currency Research Leads
A look at central bank digital currency studies and where they might lead.
Number of Central Banks Exploring retail CBDC (Bank for International Settlements)

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The Big Miss in the Biden Administration’s Stablecoin Report
We know that banks will not continue to rule the payments landscape. So why give them control over stablecoins?
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Capitalism Misallocates Resources. Web 3 Tech Can Help
Money was on the road to nowhere before programability.
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MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 04:  MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor  speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The crypto conference is expected to draw 50,000 people and runs from Friday, June 4 through June 6th.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Michael Saylor Calls Bitcoin the World’s Reserve Asset but Not So Good for Buying a Cup of Coffee
The billionaire founder of the business software company MicroStrategy said in a CoinDesk TV interview that bitcoin is the best inflation hedge.
MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 04:  MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor  speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The crypto conference is expected to draw 50,000 people and runs from Friday, June 4 through June 6th.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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The Radical Pluralism of Money
Money must not always be a unit of account, store of value and medium of exchange.
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Aligning Social and Financial Capital to Create Better Money
Would money be better if it was aligned with our reputations?
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