The Currency Cold War by David Birch, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

The way that money works now is a blip. It's a temporary institutional arrangement agreed in response to specific political, technological and economic circumstances. As these circumstances change, so money must change. Many people think that it will undergo a pretty significant change in the very near future and we need to start planning for the coming era of digital currency. The historian Niall Ferguson wrote in 2019 that "if America is smart, it will wake up and start competing for dominance in digital payments". Competing for this new currency dominance could mean a new cold war in cyberspace with, for example, Facebook's private currency facing off against China's public currency facing off against a digital euro. Or would a digital dollar win this new space race? | The Currency Cold War by David Birch, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters