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Blockchain for Decision Makers
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Blockchain for Decision Makers

by Romain Tormen
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
184 pages
4h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Blockchain for Decision Makers

A plausible shift for governments

Since Facebook's announcement of the Libra project in June 2019, it is most likely that developed nations will create some kind of a digital currency. Do not get confused, a cryptocurrency is a digital currency, but a digital currency is not necessarily a cryptocurrency.

On the scale of a country, the choice of a centralized or decentralized digital currency will depend on the infrastructure and governance on which it is based. Nations witnessing unstable economies and relying on weak institutions will probably be the first to experiment and explore decentralized digital currencies stimulated by political concerns rather than technological ones. Decentralized digital currencies (cryptocurrencies) can become ...

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