A former partner of Farmington State Bank, the tiny rural bank embroiled in the FTX scandal, is now building the rails for CBDCs in the Middle East and beyond. Their recent activities may finally reveal the true motives behind Sam Bankman-Fried's and his allies' use of Farmington, with major implications for the coming Digital Dollar.
Unmasking Farmington: FTX, Fluent Finance and the Coming Digital Dollar.
Kit Knightly Last week the United Nations Development Program officially launched their new initiative promoting “Digital Public Infrastructure” (DPI) around the world. The “50in5” program – so-called because it aims to introduce DPI in fifty countries in the next five years – began with a live-streamed event on November 8th. For those of you unsure …
Riley Waggaman Alexei Moiseev, Russia’s deputy minister of finance, is the world’s most candid space lizard. When he announced in a September 2021 interview that “the digital ruble is a replacement for the cash ruble”, skeptics and haters spread hurtful rumors that Moiseev’s refreshing and award-winning honesty had been taken out of context. Here’s what Mr. Moiseev told …
The news that NatWest has begun to nag its customers about their spending for green reasons makes the case for CBDCs, according to one IT specialist.
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Simon Elmer ‘Today, it is not the city but rather the camp that is the fundamental biopolitical paradigm of the West.’ Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1995 In Part 1 of this article, I identified the apparatuses of biopower by which our freedoms and our democracies are threatened in the West …
Kit Knightly Just a brief note on the current state of digital currencies around the world, there’s been some big news. A few days ago it was reported that China had become the first country to conduct cross-border trade using its own central bank-issued digital currency: The digital yuan has been used for the first …
What if CBDCs are not the threat to liberty their critics think? What if CBDCs will actually protect us against the overreach of private companies like PayPal, not make things worse?
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Kit Knightly “We need a new approach to digital identity”, so say the authors of an “Agenda Article” for the World Economic Forum, published on the 28th of September. Digital ID has been in the news a lot lately, obscured for the past week in the mist of the Israel-Hamas situation. Last month the United …
If programmable CBDCs are introduced, your own digital financial footprint will be used to control you, as even democratic countries slip towards Chinese-style social credit systems, warns Laura Dodsworth.
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