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Bank of International Settlements General Manager Now Says CBDCs Could Open New Opportunity

Agustin Carstens, the General Manager of Bank of International Settlement (BIS) who earlier believed Central Bank issued Digital currencies (CBDCs) were no good, has changed his stance. In his recent speech titled “The future of money and the payment system: what role for central banks?” Carstens seemed to emphasize that CBDC's could open the gates […] дальше »

2019-12-8 23:25


America’s Misled Billionaire Loathing Will Intensify Before 2020 Elections

In a recent interview with the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bill Gates gave his opinion on Elizabeth Warren’s billionaire taxes. As the second-richest individual in the world, Gates agreed the wealthy should pay higher taxes but insisted that making the tax rate too high could encourage tax dodging and become counterproductive. дальше »

2019-11-12 16:41


Understanding PLONK

Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”. дальше »

2019-9-24 04:03


Today’s Microsoft Stock Surge Just Made Bill Gates $230 Million Richer

Economics teachers love to use the “Bill Gates analogy” to explain opportunity cost to glassy-eyed high school students. The Microsoft founder makes so much money every second that it if he saw a $100 bill lying on the street, it would be a poor use of his time to pick it up - at least […] The post Today’s Microsoft Stock Surge Just Made Bill Gates $230 Million Richer appeared first on CCN.com дальше »

2019-9-20 20:54