Kjedebrev januar 2023

9 Trends Will Dominate Blockchain Technology In 2023, BBVA Open Mind, 2023-01-03

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

Taiwan goes all in on crypto, despite the global crash, Rest of World, 2023-01-04

"Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design."
— Jacob Appelbaum

91% of Cryptos From 2014 Have Died, While Bitcoin Continues To Thrive, Bitcoin magazine, 2023-01-05

“Which is why Bitcoin is an excellent idea. It fulfills the needs of the complex system, not because it is a cryptocurrency, but precisely because it has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users. And it has now a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.”
—Nassim Nicolas Taleb

Mastercard Taps Polygon for Web3 Artist Accelerator, Decrypt, 2023-01-06

“Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggravation.”
― Hugh MacLeod

Russia’s Sberbank tokenizes gold as digital asset, Ledger Insights, 2023-01-06

“Hyperinflation is a form of economic disaster unique to government money. There was never an example of hyperinflation with economies that operated a gold or silver standard”
—Saifedean Ammous

Digital wallets and biometrics to replace traditional payments in UK: Mastercard survey, Biometric Update, 2023-01-06

"Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information."
― Douglas Rushkoff

Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto, MIT Technology Review, 2023-01-13

"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization"
― Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)

Charu Sudan Kasturi: Is crypto about to go extinct?, Al Jazeera, 2023-01-17

“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”
― Truman Capote (1924-1984)

Pepe Escobar: Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar, the Cradle, 2023-01-19

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency"
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)

Dennis Argall: At war, the US dollar is on the brink of collapse, Pearls and Irritations, 2023-01-19

“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”
― John Muir (1838-1914)

Universal Digital Payment Network targets interoperable stablecoins, CBDCs, Ledger Insights, 2023-01-20

"The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States"
― George Soros

Illusory Wealth Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies, Public Domain Review, 2023-01-25

 "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"
—René Magritte (1898-1967)

Norge og digital valuta, Steigan, 2023-01-26

"Den norske husmannen er vant til å ha en storbonde over seg. Vi har ikke hatt en uavhengig utenrikspolitikk siden 1397".
—Johan Galtung