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The first challenge for the British government’s new new Office for Digital Identities and Attributes (OfDIA) is to ensure that digital identity services for important activities, such as proving a person’s right to work or rent, are as inclusive as possible.  As Edgar Whitley, associate professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics (and one of the UK’s leading experts on digital identity and privacy) observes, the industry ensure that technologically appealing solutions don’t end up creating a two–tier system,  reinforcing existing data divides or producing solutions that are overly burdensome.

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France’s Interior minister Gérald Darmanin noted that the embarrassing spectacle was the direct result of poor ticket filtration practices maintained by the Stade de France and the French Football Federation. He highlighted: “70% of the tickets coming into the Stade de France were fake. Fifteen percent of fake tickets also were after the first filtering … more than 2,600 tickets were confirmed by UEFA as non-validated tickets even though they’d gone through the first filtering.”

From Blockchain Ticketing Could Have Prevented the Champions League Fake Tickets Fiasco.

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Having a person’s EUDI wallet suddenly revoked without notice or ability to instantiate a new one containing the same data would be equivalent to erasing that person’s digital existence.

From eIDAS 2.0 Amendments | Avast.

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Amsterdam plans to launch its own digital currency in the next four years. The coin can only be used in Amsterdam at the local entrepreneurs with the idea of boosting the neighborhood economy. “It ensures that the money really continues to circulate in the city,” GroenLinks city councilor Elisabeth IJmker said to AT5.

From Amsterdam to launch its own digital currency to promote local economy | NL Times:

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 I recently gave a keynote on central bank digital currency (CBDC) in which I made the point that it is impossible to ignore the wider issues are around money and sovereignty. In particular the International and cross-border use of such currencies 

Senators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Mike Braun are set to introduce the bill, which states that US companies that own or control app stores “shall not carry or support any app in [their] app store(s) within the United States that supports or enables transactions in e-CNY.”

From US Bill Would Ban Digital Yuan from Google, Apple App Stores:

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NFTs just feel like homeopathy, people are insisting that they work, despite there being no real evidence that they do what they do beyond people just believing in it, effectively its the placebo effect that is making NFTs value into something right now

From NFTs — Crypto Homeopathy. One of the often touted features of… | by Steve Jones | Medium:

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A 401(k) provider sued the U.S. Labor Department, seeking to invalidate recent agency guidance that says companies that offer cryptocurrencies in retirement plans should expect to be investigated.

ForUsAll Inc. filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against the Labor Department, which regulates 401(k)-type plans. The San Francisco company is a 401(k) administrator. It has said it plans to let workers in retirement plans it administers invest up to 5% of their 401(k) contributions in bitcoin, ether, litecoin and other cryptocurrencies.

From 401(k) Provider Sues Labor Department Over Handling of Crypto in Retirement Plans – WSJ:

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Bill Gates has argued that cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens are underpinned by “greater fool theory”.

From Cryptocurrencies and NFTs depend on ‘greater fool theory’, says Bill Gates | Business | The Times:

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The proposed addition in Article 835 of the Civil Procedure Code states that while crypto assets are not a currency in and of themselves, they could be “used as a financial asset, means of exchange or payment, or instrument of access to goods and services or investment.”

From Brazilian proposal would make crypto payments legal and protect private keys:

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However, the proposal has also stopped short of giving the court power to seize users’ private keys:

“The following rules will be observed: Access, by the Judiciary, to the users’ private key is prohibited.”
A debtor would have to send their crypto payment to the court’s wallet to ensure its validity. The proposal does not mention how the court would obtain crypto from self-custodied wallets.

For those that keep their crypto on exchanges, the court would have the power to force “intermediaries” such as exchanges to freeze the debtor’s crypto assets:

From Brazilian proposal would make crypto payments legal and protect private keys:

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The International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and is observed on 16 June. The IDFR recognizes more than 200 million migrant workers, women and men, who send money home to over 800 million family members. Remittances, or “cross-border person-to-person payments of relatively small value,” serve as a vital lifeline to the developing world.

From International Day of Family Remittances | United Nations:

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