Financial technologies and the human history of blockchain
Financial technologies and the human history of blockchain
- June 25, 2017
- Bill Maurer, anthropology, via ETH News, June 25, 2017
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Dr. Bill Maurer, Dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Social Sciences
and Founder of the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion, told
ETHNews …. “Economists talk about there being a hierarchy of money or a pyramid of
money where people can make any kind of money they want. I can make all sorts of IOUs,
we can make up our own scrip currency, I can use airline miles and start converting
them into food at the airport.”
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