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Clarifying or Confusing the Quandary of Identical Marks: Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc. v. Vijaya Sai and Others

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post by Sangita Sharma, looking at the Supreme Court’s order in the trademark infringement case Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc. v. Vijaya Sai and Others. Sangita is a 3rd Year student at Gujarat National Law University and has written for us earlier here. Clarifying or Confusing the Quandary of Identical Marks: Renaissance Hotel Holdings Inc. v. Vijaya Sai and Others Sangita Sharma Are Sangita and Zai Sangita identical or similar? How does one differentiate...

Amid War, Ukraine Looks to Legalize Medical Cannabis

War is no fun, that’s for sure. And one of the only inarguable facts is that it can cause a lot of damage to folks on both sides. Right now, Russia and Ukraine are embroiled in an escalating conflict that could cause damage to Ukraine’s cannabis industry. But even as this goes on, Ukraine continues […]

The post Amid War, Ukraine Looks to Legalize Medical Cannabis appeared first on CBD Testers.

Metaverse 101: A Beginners Guide to the Metaverse

Welcome, Cryptonaut, to the world of tomorrow. The year is 2089. Wait, or is it 2090? Heck, who even remembers years anymore. It is late in the 21st century anyway. Earth is a dystopian place, and world governments and countries have collapsed. Humanity is ruled by corporations and franchises, and the planet is plunged into […]

The post Metaverse 101: A Beginners Guide to the Metaverse appeared first on Coin Bureau.

Centipede: Recharged and Black Widow are free on the Epic Games Store

Circle back next week for Cities: Skylines This week’s free PC games are a modern take on arcade jams. The...

The post Centipede: Recharged and Black Widow are free on the Epic Games Store appeared first on Destructoid.

Bitcoin Is Time Traveling Energy

Spending bitcoin into the future transfers incredible amounts of energy over time as the amount of energy per satoshi increases.

How Much For That IP System? South Centre Report Suggests Developing Countries Pay Quite the Price

In the discussions around IP, trade and innovation, it has often been pointed out that least developed countries and developing countries are frequently the net importers of technologies, while the developed countries tend to be net exporters of technologies. This is a point that is especially relevant when discussing the problems with ‘one-size-fits-all’ approaches to globally harmonized IP regimes (see for example, this post on a Report on Patent Exclusions). An interesting new report (available here) published by South Centre...

Inequality in the Cannabis Industry and the Push for Social Equity

Inequality in the Cannabis Industry and the Push for Social Equity

Inequality in the cannabis industry exists, and some companies have tried to address this by pushing for social equity. Currently, representation in the cannabis industry is extremely uneven. A survey found that American cannabis companies were disproportionality White. According to the survey, about 87% of company owners are White, and other minority groups each made […]

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The Weaponization Of Money And Financial Rails Must End

As Bitcoin removes their means of creating money out of nothing, nation states will cease to be sovereigns in this crucial area of life.

Researchers Demonstrate New Side-Channel Attack on Homomorphic Encryption

A group of academics from the North Carolina State University and Dokuz Eylul University have demonstrated what they say is the "first side-channel attack" on homomorphic encryption that could be exploited to leak data as the encryption process is underway. "Basically, by monitoring power consumption in a device that is encoding data for homomorphic encryption, we are able to read the data as it

Trademarking Signature Poses/Looks – A Progressive Protection of Individuality

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Kedar Ganesh Dhargalkar, analysing the possibility of trademark protection for bodily features. Kedar is a fourth year BLS LLB student at the Adv. Balasaheb Apte College of Law in Mumbai. His previous guest posts on the blog can be viewed here and here. Trademarking Signature Poses/Looks – A Progressive Protection of Individuality Today, thanks to the body positivity movement, one’s body is increasingly being seen as a reflection and assertion...

3D Printing is Gaining Momentum in the Aerospace Industry, A $63 Billion Opportunity

On 1st March 2022, reports emerged that Boeing had started to build the latest version of the Wideband Global Satcom communications satellite system. It aims to shorten the production cycle of the US military satellite with the use of 3D printing (1). The aerospace giant will print more than a thousand parts to deliver the […]

The Future of Money

The Future of Money provides a sweeping landscape of how money is changing.

Paper money is an 800 year-old institution implemented by Kublai Khan grandson of Ghengis Khan, and founder of the Yuan Dynasty. After nearly a millennium, bills and coins' time may be ebbing. Sweden projects the end of paper money, amongst its citizens by 2030. Today, 87% of Swedes never use cash for transactions.

What will replace paper money? In the future, central banks may mint Central Bank Digital Coins (CBDCs). Sweden has experimented with the eKronor, the Swedish CBDC, since 2020. The Swedes aren’t the only ones to pursue CBDCs. The Bahamas mints the Sand Dollar. China is developing the e-yuan. Ecuador, Uruguay, Tunisia, the US and others are experimenting or exploring CBDCs.

CBDCs may be the future of monetary policy, enabling governments to mint and destroy money through software. Imagine a reserve bank stimulating the electric bicycle industry in the Kansas City metropolitan area by providing residents new US dollars that are only valid within bike shops in Kansas City.

Digital dollars provide significantly more transparency to governments. Central bankers would swim through the most accurate ocean of economic data possible. Of course, more transparency risks increasing surveillance. Will citizens accept this trade? It’s a question that electorates and leaders will need to answer in the coming decade.

Crypto’s influence on the future of money threads its theme throughout the book’s chapters. But the decentralized ledger may not. DLT, which Bitcoin brought to mass adoption, records financial transactions without needing to trust counterparties. But not everyone building modern crypto applications employs DLTs. For example, Chinese e-yuan transactions are recorded in a centralized database.

Crypto encompasses many ideas: DLTs, digital money, privacy, new financial instruments, trustless interactions, and many more. The potential for innovation from these ideas, their combinations, and their descendants is hard to overstate.

If you’re looking to understand how money moves across banks with SWIFT or how money moves across borders from Omaha to Ouagadougou through correspondent banks or how changes to these systems impact geopolitics, the Future of Money is your ticket.

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