Roger Huang
Contributor at Forbes
PFP: Dr. Jiang Yanyong. Cover: Anna Politkovskaya My book on Bitcoin + China: https://t.co/BbkTDFIJTx Nostr: [email protected] constant gadfly
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1 week ago |
thesgnl.com | Roger Huang
As dictators and dissidents refine new measures and countermeasures for seizing or securing money and assets in their ongoing struggle with one another, governments around the world have been developing the technological basis for what’s almost the conceptual opposite of the decentralized cryptocurrency Bitcoin: a kind of digital currency that’s centralized not just in a private company but in the state itself. Central bank digital currencies—CBDCs—aren’t entirely new.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Roger Huang
The tech titans that rule the Internet have many ways to maintain power. One way is to create effective monopolies of their app ecosystems - making them the guardians of what apps people can access when buying devices from Apple or Google. This power is more insidious than most people realize - for example, Apple will take down apps at the request of state powers such as the Chinese Communist Party and the Indian government fairly frequently.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Roger Huang
1 hour agoIt was good while it lasted, but Apple's reprieve was short-lived. On Friday, the iPhone maker appeared to be largely off the hook from Donald Trump's China tariffs after the US Customs and Border Protection announced an exemption for smartphones, laptops, and other tech gadgets. That would have come …
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Roger Huang
After the devastating earthquake that ripped through Myanmar, images and videos have come pouring out of people doing the best they can under challenging circumstances - removing survivors by prying them out of buildings without machinery and with their bare hands, for example. The disaster relief comes at a time of devastating civil war, where the military has been fighting different independent groups after an attempted coup.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Roger Huang
After the devastating earthquake that ripped through Myanmar, images and videos have come pouring out of people doing the best they can under challenging circumstances - removing survivors by prying them out of buildings without machinery and with their bare hands, for example. The disaster relief comes at a time of devastating civil war, where the military has been fighting different independent groups after an attempted coup.
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The birth of the modern monetary order came when Eisenhower threatened the United Kingdom with monetary sanctions. It became clear that the British Empire could never operate again without American consent. Sometime, US debt might well mean the same thing for the US. https://t.co/6mmduoMfqN
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