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Digital Wallet Study Presages Future Of Money Transactions
The future is almost with us. Our friends at Finextra run a report on the biggest study of mobile wallets – the digital devices that store cryptocurrencies – in the world. Released by payments fintech Boku, with data from Juniper Research, the research reveals that Europe will be home to four of the ten fastest-growing countries for mobile payment transactions by 2025. Russia, Germany, Portugal, and Sweden are projected to grow the fastest in Europe, comprising four of the ten fastest globally, with France, Norway, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands, and the UK, being the other European nations helping make up the …
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Serious Business: The Benefits And Dangers As Society Rethinks Money
Our head of content and communications opines on the nature of digital money, specifically cryptocurrencies, and its place in – and threat to – the modern nation state. Here’s an extract of his recent article in Byline Times. Rethinking the nature of money is serious stuff. It is, in effect, the re-examination of a concept of value exchange that’s been central to society, certainly every mercantile culture, for thousands of years – from Pacific conch shells, to gold, promissory notes and credit cards. It’s my contention that, for good or for ill, there is a clear and present threat to …