Helping people understand where value moves next. Researching systems. Connecting ideas. Thinking longterm.
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I went to access my money at a shared credit union branch and was asked to verify my passport through a digital process involving biometrics.
It got me thinking about the relationship between identity and access. 1/5
I'm interested in the intersection of payments, digital identity, biometrics, and financial infrastructure.
These systems are connected, and changes in one can affect how we access money, services, and the things we own.
This is the lens I'm using to examine how technology 4/5
changes the way money and value move through economic systems.
I'm connecting the systems, ideas, and shifts shaping what's next.
Have you encountered this kind of identity verification? What are you noticing? 5/5 sculptedlife.substack.com/p/…
The discussion of actual “pallets” of gold leaving the United States..
Countries are “taking” their gold back to do what with it?
I have a thought it is to back not their fiat currency but their digital currency in an effort (attempt) to destabilize the U.S. dollar.
Thirdly, fiat currrency is transitioning regardless of whether the general American public is aware. The influence/usage of digital transactions is high in places like china, Singapore, India …
Crypto “the greatest revolution in financial technological history” - Trump
What are revolutions for $1000?
What if Zelle was no longer moving dollars through the banking system, but moving digital dollars across blockchain rails?
That was the question that started this for me.
Zelle works because financial institutions participate in a shared payment network. 1/4
So I started thinking:
If the money becomes digital, but the intermediary remains, what actually changed?
Bitcoin was supposed to remove the intermediary.
But maybe we keep recreating the intermediary around the technology. 3/4
And if that happens, I have one question:
Where does the value flow?
That’s what I’m thinking about in this post. 4/4
sculptedlife.substack.com/p/…
I've been telling folks it is a renting market! Try again in the spring, especially if you haven't received any hits in the first 7 days. Your marketing is no bueno.
I started with Bitcoin.
Then two conversations took me somewhere else: Mike Saylor and Jeff Booth.
They both believe in Bitcoin, but they seem to be thinking about two very different futures for it.
One leans toward institutional adoption. 1/3
The other keeps coming back to decentralization and the individual.
And then there is the middle.
What happens when something created to change a system becomes part of that system?
That is the question I’m sitting with. 2/3
Because I’m less interested in asking, “Is Bitcoin good or bad?”
I’m interested in asking:
Where does the value flow? 3/3
I wrote about it here sculptedlife.substack.com/p/…