New one system currency/order

[Penn]

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[7624U]

It is nuclear proof it has to be good

[Florida Patriot]

Here's the link to the top players.
https://aplfintech.com/team/

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[Trapper John]

I have not delved into this enough to gain an understanding or even ask intelligent questions. My initial instinct, however, says Run Away and set up a tight defensive perimeter!!

[Flagg]

I'm guessing we are well and truly still within the "too soon to tell" phase of next-generation currencies.

Bitcoin is still a gigantic experiment hindered by poor transactional speed/cost and insane price volatility that hinders its use as a mass means of exchange.

Facebook's Libra(now Diem) remains stillborn after a LOT of noise(everyone joined to see what it was), then everyone(well..most) bailed because they don't trust Facebook. Facebook is committed to NOT launching until they receive regulatory approval starting with the US. Which means never or with suffocating conditions keeping it stillborn.

Digital Yuan contines it's relentless incremental movement towards a broader launch. Trials of free currency in select locations in China continue. The Digital Yuan is NOT a distributed/decentralised currency, it's a digital offshoot of existing Yuan. NO WAY would the CCP/PLA ever let their currency go free.

What crypto will win?

Who knows.

I would bet everything I own that we need to sort ourselves out ASAP.

Why?

Humans in the near future, especially in the developing world, will be conducting most person-to-person and person-to-small-business transactions on mobile payment systems.

3 years ago I spoke at DEF Aus talking about blockchain applications for defence(boring stuff like logistics) and prefaced that the talk wasn't about Bitcoin and don't buy any Bitcoin(it had gone ballistic, peaked and started a long fall 3 days later) for a laugh as it was in the newscycle. Afterwards, 3 people in the audience asked me about buying Bitcoin......

Last year I was a semifinalist for a US Army TRADOC Mad Scientist writing compeititon. My fictional entry was super boring....very little action, my story had China winning the future thru economic warfare.

China already has 40X the volume of mobile payments of the US.

Forget "One Belt, One Road" think "One Platform, One Network" with WeChat and Digital Yuan in the developing world.

We certainly don't want to get shafted by Big Left Tech and government.

But we really don't want to get shafted by the CCP/PLA's Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei.

Freedom, Innovation, Privacy

[Scimitar]

Great comments Flagg, totally agree.

S

[Trapper John]

Originally Posted by Flagg

I'm guessing we are well and truly still within the "too soon to tell" phase of next-generation currencies.

Bitcoin is still a gigantic experiment hindered by poor transactional speed/cost and insane price volatility that hinders its use as a mass means of exchange.

Facebook's Libra(now Diem) remains stillborn after a LOT of noise(everyone joined to see what it was), then everyone(well..most) bailed because they don't trust Facebook. Facebook is committed to NOT launching until they receive regulatory approval starting with the US. Which means never or with suffocating conditions keeping it stillborn.

Digital Yuan contines it's relentless incremental movement towards a broader launch. Trials of free currency in select locations in China continue. The Digital Yuan is NOT a distributed/decentralised currency, it's a digital offshoot of existing Yuan. NO WAY would the CCP/PLA ever let their currency go free.

What crypto will win?

Who knows.

I would bet everything I own that we need to sort ourselves out ASAP.

Why?

Humans in the near future, especially in the developing world, will be conducting most person-to-person and person-to-small-business transactions on mobile payment systems.

3 years ago I spoke at DEF Aus talking about blockchain applications for defence(boring stuff like logistics) and prefaced that the talk wasn't about Bitcoin and don't buy any Bitcoin(it had gone ballistic, peaked and started a long fall 3 days later) for a laugh as it was in the newscycle. Afterwards, 3 people in the audience asked me about buying Bitcoin......

Last year I was a semifinalist for a US Army TRADOC Mad Scientist writing compeititon. My fictional entry was super boring....very little action, my story had China winning the future thru economic warfare.

China already has 40X the volume of mobile payments of the US.

Forget "One Belt, One Road" think "One Platform, One Network" with WeChat and Digital Yuan in the developing world.

We certainly don't want to get shafted by Big Left Tech and government.

But we really don't want to get shafted by the CCP/PLA's Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei.

Freedom, Innovation, Privacy

One of the Khmer leaders with whom I still maintain contact recently alerted me to the issue of increasing China influence/control within Cambodia. Apparently this is being affected through loans (cryptocurrencies) to small business, communities and villages and regulated/controlled by China.

I am sure that something similar is in play in Africa as well.

Looks to me as if cybertech and crypto currency are altering the irregular warfare battle-space. This will surely press the need to alter capabilities within 1st SF. JMHO YMMV

[Old Dog New Trick]

Originally Posted by Trapper John

One of the Khmer leaders with whom I still maintain contact recently alerted me to the issue of increasing China influence/control within Cambodia. Apparently this is being affected through loans (cryptocurrencies) to small business, communities and villages and regulated/controlled by China.

I am sure that something similar is in play in Africa as well.

Looks to me as if cybertech and crypto currency are altering the irregular warfare battle-space. This will surely press the need to alter capabilities within 1st SF. JMHO YMMV

My wife (Thai) says Cambodia specifically Phnom Penh and Angkor Wat (Siem Reap) are completely owned by the Chinese now. Riverboat casinos, hotels, restaurants etc... all to support Chinese tourism. She says I would not recognize any of the places I went to back in the 90's while I too was watching the Chinese infiltrate SEA at a rapid pace. She says the same of Thailand, lots of borrowed money in exchange for business opportunity - Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar all of it!

[tonyz]

Chinese have put their Shylock ways deep into the northern Italian textile industry.

Paid top dollar for the first factory. Fired the Italians. Imported illegal or cheap labor...flooded the market with cheap product...lowered the prices well below market and bought the next factory. Fired all local workers...lather, rinse and repeat...oh, and brought over a little bug to boot.

Almost forgot...the Chinese now get to put the “Made in Italy” label on finished product... that used to mean quality. Now, it just means higher margins, displaced Italians, and lower quality.

[Penn]

Tonyz, you are correct the undermining MII tag, by the Chinese. My wife manufactures her scarves through TGM in Milan. Beautiful scarves, those we/
'met have mentioned the fact that they also manufacture in China, but do the finish work in Italy, maintaining the MII branding.

[Flagg]

Originally Posted by Trapper John

One of the Khmer leaders with whom I still maintain contact recently alerted me to the issue of increasing China influence/control within Cambodia. Apparently this is being affected through loans (cryptocurrencies) to small business, communities and villages and regulated/controlled by China.

I am sure that something similar is in play in Africa as well.

Looks to me as if cybertech and crypto currency are altering the irregular warfare battle-space. This will surely press the need to alter capabilities within 1st SF. JMHO YMMV

During the Obama Administration there were a few hard and fast senior leadership trips to the region, which is a good thing.

However, when I was there Chinese senior leadership was in Phnom Penh, cutting the city in half.

Chinese money and influence was visible everywhere, as were tooled up PLA.

My last trip to Nairobi showed inbound/outbound flights 80%+ China connections.

Crypto, Social, Native mobile apps, no their analytics are absolute game changers for irregular/unconventional/political warfare