Let the Games Begin: Facebook’s Libra Association has Thrown Down the Digital Currency Gauntlet and China is Rising to the Challenge

Ziv Keinan

https://zivkeinan.com/digital-assets-lawyers/

Facebook's Project Libra (I mistakenly stated several times that Libra’s digital currency is “backed by a basket of securities”.  Ziv correctly reminded me that the current plan is for Libra’s token to be backed by a “basket of currencies”, not securities.)    

https://libra.org/en-US/association/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(cryptocurrency)

etoro Trading Platform

https://www.etoro.com/en-us/

GoodDollar

https://www.gooddollar.org/
Ownera - The Blockchain of Ownership
https://ownera.io/

Grassroots Economics

https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/

The International Monetary Fund's Fintech Notes Series

The Rise of Digital Money

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fintech-notes/Issues/2019/07/12/The-Rise-of-Digital-Money-47097

Give Direct

Givedirect.org

Ethereal Tel Aviv 2019

https://www.etherealsummit.com/events/tel-aviv-2019

Tomer Barel, VP of Risk and Operations for Calibra 

https://www.etherealsummit.com/tomer-barel

Seigniorage - How governments create revenue from printing and coining money

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/seigniorage.asp

WeChat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat

Binance Paper on China’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

https://info.binance.com/en/research/marketresearch/CBDC.html

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