BREAKDOWN: Meltem Demirors on Government Digital Currencies and Why ‘The Halvening’ Gets Weird
Why the narrative of 2019 was the emergencies of CBDCs and why the halvening won’t go as people expect
Dec 24, 2019
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ABOUT
One of CoinDesk’s ten most influential people of 2019, Melem Demirors is a crypto renaissance woman, known best for investing, operating as CSO of CoinShares, and for explaining ‘shitcoins’ to Congress.
In this end of year Breakdown, Meltem argues explains why the entrance of governments to the digital asset game is the most significant story of 2019, as well as suggesting that the presence of an entirely new financial infrastructure around bitcoin means the halvening is likely to be unlike what anyone thinks.
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