Desember 2025

Kjedebrev desember 2025

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How Stablecoins Can Improve Payments and Global Finance, IMF, 2025-12-04

“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”
― John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Sangha Renewables Energizes 20 MW Bitcoin Mining Facility in West Texas, Bitcoin Magazine, 2025-12-12

“Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.”
― Vaclav Smil

Kari Larna Hegdal: Cash is king? Her er reglene som gjelder nå, Panorama, 2025-12-12

Sentralbanklovens § 3-5. Tvungent betalingsmiddel

(1) Norges Banks sedler og mynter er tvungent betalingsmiddel i Norge. Ingen har plikt til å ta imot mer enn 25 mynter av hver enhet i én betaling.

(2) Sterkt skadde sedler og mynter er ikke tvungent betalingsmiddel. Norges Bank kan gi forskrift om avgrensning av hva som er tvungne betalingsmidler og om erstatning for bortkomne, brente eller skadde sedler og mynter, herunder om gebyr.

John Naughton: Why stablecoins – crypto for adults – have suddenly become a big deal, the Observer, 2025-12-12

"it cannot be irrelevant whether or not the future quality of a currency is really assured or whether instead that it depends on the shifting sands of political decisions or the possibly arbitrary actions of a bureaucracy of officials."
― John Nash (1928-2015)

North Korea’s record-breaking year for crypto theft , Asia Times, 2025-12-22

““History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”
― Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950)

Kjetil Tveit: Rekordpris på gull – Finansavisen sier bare halve sannheten, Steigan, 2025-12-29

"Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth."
—William Rees-Mogg (1928-2012)

Chris Ogden:What is the BRICS ‘UNIT’ – and could it really challenge the US dollar?,the Conversation, 2025-12-17

“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει."

(Panta rhei kai ouden menei)

(Everything changes, and no thing abides.)

— Heraclitus (535-475BC)