That’s a wrap! The World Economic Forum is over, and the key ideas coming out of Davos for our industry are:
A continued ‘blockchain, not crypto’ narrative;
2A belief in the inevitability of cashless futures (without much concern about the negative implications);
The rise of CBDCs.
On the CBDC front, the WEF put out a toolkit for governments that are considering their own currency; Japan announced a project to explore a digital currency as a counterweight to the influence a digital yuan might bring China; and a BIS study says 1 in 10 governments anticipate having a digital currency within 3 years.
Finally, this episode closes with a discussion with prolific bitcoiner and artist Brekkie von Bitcoin about the state of bitcoin art and why even the hardcore financially-minded folks in the space should care.
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