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Japan to Solarize Its Digital Economy

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Use Cases of Blockchain technology in Energy Sector - Solar Power “In the solar energy sector, decentralized blockchain technology is used in person-to-person (P2P) energy trading, labeling, energy provenance and certification, smart metering and billing, electric vehicle charging and payments, and wholesale power trading and settlements.” Reports published by Fitch Solutions Macro Research and Globadata conclude that over the next decade, decentralized solar technology may replace PV solar farms as the main growth-driver in Japan. Already, a blockchain-enabled solar energy-trading pilot project is set to link 100 solar rooftops of smart, zero-energy homes in the country, while another pilot project will administer an energy-trading marketplace using blockchain to connect a number of Japanese power production facilities with homes, offices, factories, batteries and electric vehicles. Toyota Motor Corp. — which began testing high-efficiency solar cells for electric cars — has join...

Kuala Lumpur Roundtable

'Kuala Lumpur Roundtable offers key policy suggestions to achieve Shared Prosperity 2030' Some really good suggestions put forth by the members of the KLR in their paper, hopefully they get pushed through to our policymakers. There was some mention about SMEs and promoting SME contributions to the economy as a market solution to lift the B40 and M40, however, personally I feel that there should be more emphasis given to SMEs and entrepreneurship, as arguably entrepreneurs are the 'spark plugs' that we desperately need to jump start our struggling economy. We need to learn from our past and not repeat the same mistakes, we've already wasted too much time. - GLC Reforms - APs, licensing and all forms of interventionist policies must be removed - Monopolies and Oligopolies must not be given any form of protectionism through regulations etc. How serious are our policymakers? ~ Keri Hamdan, LinkedIn post http://www.ideas.org.my/kuala-lumpur-roundtable-offers-...

The Invention of Money

Anyone forging it would be punished with death. That point was deeply relevant. The problem with many new forms of money is that people are reluctant to adopt them. Genghis Khan’s grandson didn’t have that difficulty. He took measures to insure the authenticity of his currency, and if you didn’t use it—if you wouldn’t accept it in payment, or preferred to use gold or silver or copper or iron bars or pearls or salt or coins or any of the older forms of payment prevalent in China—he would have you killed. This solved the question of uptake. The instruments of trade and finance are inventions, in the same way that creations of art and discoveries of science are inventions—products of the human imagination. Paper money, backed by the authority of the state, was an astonishing innovation, one that reshaped the world. It’s only at moments when the system buckles that we start to wonder why these things are worth what they seem to be worth. Bitcoin, a new form of money based on no...

Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Mastercard

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There is a paradigm shift. The world is moving. Bitcoin could be that digital gold. July, 2019 - 18,000 jobs set to be cut as Deutsche Bank embarks on mass retrenchment exercise . Aug, 2019 - # HSBC Ousts CEO Flint, Plans 4,000 Job Cuts in Focus on Cost Targets . Aug, 2019 - #Mastercard Hints at Future Crypto Wallet Product With New Job Listings: * Director, Product Management - Crypto Currency/ Wallets * Director, Product Development & Innovation - Blockchain Solutions Architect * VP, Product Management - Blockchain / Crypto A long development process full of trials, tribulations, ignorance and triumphs over skeptics and critics alike. As per the individual research of a former Deutsche Bank executive, Bitcoin's real-time price movements serve as clear indicators of hidden geopolitical tensions spread all across the globe. Many analysts seem to believe that the USA's ongoing trade war with China is causing BTCs price to fluctuate on a ne...