digital currency – Snippings

Not nostalgia!

Last week saw the Silver Jubilee of the launch of the world’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC), Mondex, in my home town of Swindon. I sure a great many people have never heard of it, but it is important to remember what was an important milestone on the road to digital money worldwide. 25Continue reading “Not nostalgia!”

MEDIUM Stimulating digital wallets

I am not an expert on American politics and I’ve forgotten all the cartoons about how a bill becomes a law and that sort of thing, but I was absolutely fascinated to read in a draft the Democratic Party stimulus proposal for the United States (the ‘Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act’’, all 1100 pagesContinue reading “MEDIUM Stimulating digital wallets”

Unbundling and rebundling

I went along to the Centre for the Study of Financial Information (CSFI) lunchtime roundtable on “Gold in the Internet Age” because I am fascinated by the link between gold, money and now (of course) digital money. I take my hat off to Andrew Hilton and his crew because the event was outstanding. The panelContinue reading “Unbundling and rebundling”

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen

A thousand years ago the people of England were going about their daily business of growing sheep and suchlike and probably didn’t realise that, these being days long before universal suffrage and representative democracy, they were about to become part of a Scandinavian empire (and without a referendum). This happened when the Saxon King EdmundContinue reading “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”