Our Once and Future Selves: David Birch Thinks Digital Money and Identity Can Take Humankind Back to its Roots

Our Once and Future Selves: David Birch Thinks Digital Money and Identity Can Take Humankind Back to its Roots

David Birch

https://www.dgwbirch.com/biography/

Babylonian Money

https://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2010/01/babylonian-grain-and-silver-standard.html

Yuval Noah Harari 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind

Jack Weatherford - “The Future of Money Looks Much More Like Its Past”

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

Star Wars Money (Galactic Credits)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Galactic_Credit_Standard

Star Trek’s Money-Free Society - Wired Article

The Economic Lessons of Star Trek’s Money-Free Society
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/geeks-guide-star-trek-economics/

Theory of Optimal Currency Areas 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/optimal-currency-area.asp

Jan Jocobs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs

Nick Szabo - The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments

http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html

Technode Article 

Chinese bet on blockchain to counter vaccine scandal cover-up
https://technode.com/2018/07/23/vaccine-scandal-blockchain/

51% Attack
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp

Seigniorage 

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

Facebook’s Libra

https://libra.org/en-US/ 

China’s Central Bank Digital Currency - Binance Link

https://research.binance.com/analysis/china-cbdc

Davos Conference

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2020

Former Head of the CFTC Cofounds the Digital Dollar Foundation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjessel/2020/01/17/former-ctfc-lead-and-accenture-launch-think-tank-to-digitize-the-us-dollar/#22778fb428ff

New York's Proposed State-Issued Digital Currency
https://dailyhodl.com/2020/01/08/new-york-will-launch-its-own-digital-currency-if-this-proposal-passes/
https://ronkimnewyork.com/downloads/The-New-York-Inclusive-Value-Ledger-Sept-2019.pdf
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s4562

The U.S. Constitution Has a Few Things to Say About States Creating Money
https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/70/state-coinage

Niall Ferguson - America’s power is on a financial knife edge

http://www.niallferguson.com/journalism/finance-economics/americas-power-is-on-a-financial-knife-edge

KYC - Know Your Client

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/knowyourclient.asp

AML - Anti Money Laundering

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aml.asp

Homomorphic Encryption - Forbes Article https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/11/15/what-is-homomorphic-encryption-and-why-is-it-so-transformative/#1242b4497e93

Zero Knowledge Proofs - Wired Article

https://www.wired.com/story/zero-knowledge-proofs/

Cryptographic Blinding - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinding_(cryptography)

How Distributed Technology Can Help Regional Currencies - By Max Demyan
https://hackernoon.com/how-distributed-technology-can-help-regional-currencies-2b8341c23b59

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