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Facebook’s Digital Currency Venture “Diem”: the new Frontier. or a Galaxy far, far away?

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Due to their “decentralized” character, these cryptocurrencies are poised to potentially disrupt national and central bank-backed “fiat currencies” (see note 1) around the world. National governments and their central banks have traditionally enjoyed a kind of “monopoly” when it comes to deciding what counts as legal “currency”.

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Distributed Ledger Technologies and Social Machines: How to “smartify” the economy with blockchain-based digital extension services?

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correspondingly acknowledge that, “[t]he designation ‘smart’ is common to describe a product that is extended with digital functions and customer-oriented services” (2019). 2016), and more gradually about how their development is transforming the human/digital ecosystem globally. Schuh et al. Similarly, Shadbolt et al.