Bitcoin
Elon Musk has called Bitcoin an ‘energy currency’ whose value is rooted in physics and electricity rather than government policy, and mused that AI and robots could one day make money itself obsolete.
China has made ‘ciyuan’ the official translation for AI ‘token’, a move widely read as the seed of a token-based currency for the AI age, and a long-term challenge to the US dollar.
From corporate stablecoins to programmable CBDCs and AI-driven money, this is a look at how currency could soon move faster than regulators and slip beyond purely human control.
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture tied to Donald Trump, is expanding into debit cards, tokenised commodities and its USD1 stablecoin as it pushes to extend dollar influence on-chain.
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