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It is interesting to see who Julie Maupin is advising:
"Julie currently sits on the Fintech advisory board of the German Ministry of Finance and the G20 Digital Economy Experts Task Force and is a resource person for the UN Internet Governance Forum. In addition to her appointment at Max Planck, she holds external research appointments with the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies. She has recently been advising IOTA on the incorporation and governance set-up of the foundation and is actively helping to develop projects to be carried out by the social venture fund."
In a recent interview for a german newspaper Maupin said that the new technology needs clever regulations for states, so they do not lose on tax. She says also that anonymous technology like XMR (Ring CT) and Zcash is on the one side needed to protect the privacy, on the other side it could be used for criminal activity. Balance is needed. She says there is a lot of work ahead to find if possible some unified form of regulations, in Europe and Germany the opinion right now is not to overdo it in order to not slow down innovation. Russia thinks about a special 13% tax for crypto from people who cannot show where their coins come from (risk of money laundering). Interesting stuff.
But yes Crypto is there to stay.
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Hey folks,
I've been thinking lately that blockchain tech can be extremely disruptive to the big tech companies of today. Think how powerful decentralized versions of Google Drive, YouTube, Amazon could be; the potential in this field is huge. If anyone here has had similar thoughts and has already invested in such companies, can you share what made you do that and how it's going so far?
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