Tensions between the U.S. and China are at their highest in decades amid a possible unofficial meeting on Tuesday between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan’s pro-independence president, Tsai Ing-wen.
Digital technology is poised to change our relationship with money and, for some countries, the ability to manage their economies.
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" ..... What finally, decisively ended this competition was the emergence of central banks, which were given the exclusive privilege of issuing legal currency and tasked with maintaining its stability. This shift happened quite early in Sweden; the world’s oldest central bank, the Riksbank, was established there in the 17th century. In China, competition closed with the founding of the People’s Bank of China in 1948, shortly before the formal creation of the People’s Republic of China. Since the central banks stepped in, competition has been mostly international, with the relative value of currencies depending on the reputation and stability of the central banks issuing them. "
NOTE: I assumed from the above title that they were going to talk about the emergence of all the digital currencies....
Updated August 18. 2022
Companies already have the systems in place that are needed to evaluate their deeper impacts on the social fabric.
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Updated information Aug 1, 2022
All this leaves a vacuum in the middle — the space of forums, ad-hoc group formation and small communities that first drove excitement around internet adoption in the pre-Facebook era.
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Now you can remove someone from your followers list without blocking them entirely.
We'll likely see the top picks for safer, post-quantum encryption technology early in 2022.
When these machines will be able to crack conventional encryption is an open question. But the safe money suggests it won't take long.
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February 2021 update:
A backlash movement against the messaging app is partly rooted in a distrust of its parent company, Facebook.
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Today got this info from someone regarding facebook and fact check:
Via social media post, here is a very interesting explanation as to why pay with cash whenever possible, when you are shopping. I copied th...
