MDF Doyle

Former Olympic kayaker Angus Mortimer banned from the sport after panel finds he groomed teenagers theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

The Guardian's @seaningle first broke this story, and we decided it was worth unpacking from a 🇨🇦perspective, as this could deeply impact Andre De Grasse's career.

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Very end of the hearing: "Oh BTW, what about privacy, and what about smart contracts?" This should have been the focus of this entire hearing. Meanwhile, China has launched #DCEP to the public. #smartcontracts #DeFi #Crypto #fintech #CBDCs #stablecoins

A central bank digital currency would not be open and decentralized, and would not then require mining; so it wouldn't have a big environmental footprint. Not bigger than the current payments system.

If you're interested in where the US is at with a digital currency, there is is a live stream senate hearing going on right now, including Stanford economist @DuffieDarrell banking.senate.gov/hearings/build…

@edcaesar Aren't we all...

@jthorpe11 The yap stone analogy came out of procrastinating from actually writing my first draft. I read far too much about the history of money in order to avoid having to write about it myself.

Great piece by @mdfdoyle, including one of the best analogies to blockchain I’ve seen in the currency system of the Yap Islanders theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

@schmarkty @globeandmail @globebusiness I was not expecting twitter to make my day today! I appreciate your kind words. I've got a few followup stories in the works. Fascinating and important subject that I look forward to exploring further.

@mdfdoyle @globeandmail @globebusiness I just read this in the Globe app, it’s incredibly well written, to the point where I looked you up on Twitter just to tell you so! Thanks for this amazing perspective.

A thread on a story I wrote for @globeandmail @globebusiness about the future of money--an excuse to talk to some of the smartest people in the world about the the end of privacy, Facebook's near takeover of the global economy, and World of Warcraft gold. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Final thought for this thread: smart contracts 🚀

The most exciting aspect of a central bank digital currency: government could program in policy decisions... And that's also potentially the scariest thing.

China rolls out #DCEP for foreign visitors at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The Games will be an influence campaign as much as a sports event.

.@hannahalaburda at NYU wrote a fascinating book about crypto called Beyond Bitcoin, and I believe a new edition is forthcoming. From the story: