MindGravity: Cryptocurrency and Stable Coins Discussion w/ Dr. Mihaela Ulieru

MindGravity.

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru is currently the Chief Alchemist at SingularityNET and President of the IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy. The broadness of her background and expertise enable Dr. Ulieru to tackle problems from original perspectives which require a high level of interdisciplinarity - such as her large scale international collaborative projects aiming to make ICTs an integral component of policymaking for social innovation generation for a healthier, safer, more sustainable, and innovation-driven world Future of Medicine, Living Technologies - book chapter here and Emulating the Mind, recently coined in a book.

On this episode we talk about:

1. Dr. Mihaela's backstory and what she is currently working on?
2. What is money? What is the currency? What are cryptocurrencies? Why do we need it?
3. What are stable coins and what is the role of stablecoins? Why do we need it? What’s CBDC?
4. What do stablecoins or CBDC offer that the current currency/monetary system does not? What are the things that people understand, things that people don’t understand about stablecoins?
5. Cash advantage is privacy/anonymity in the face to face transactions, at least -- how CBDC can ensure that?
6. What is preventing the adoption of stablecoins across the globe? Is this the future of money? Why, why not?
7. FSB recently recommended against the use of stablecoins? What are your thoughts on it?
8. How is Libra helping (not helping) the push for the adoption? What are they doing right or wrong?

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