I’ve been threatening to reduce my time on digital devices for a year. Finally, inspired by Peco, Ruth Gaskovski, Roman S Shapoval and others, I started leaving my phone in another room an hour before bedtime, and in the morning, ignoring it in favor of heading immediately to the tiny little lollipop-shaped beach […]
Heading to Centralized Control: Digital Currencies (CBDC), Cyber Attacks & Climate
Originally published on the author’s Substack, Musings by Efrat Written by Efrat Fenigson for Bereshit Newspaper | Translated by Deborah Garber 🇪🇺 The European Union – Moving Towards CBDC Last month, a prank video by two podcasters called Van and Lexus posing as Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who pulled a fast one […]
Iranian Women Are Under Digital Watch For Hijab Compliance
i24 News, a Tel Aviv-based international news organization, reported that the Iranian government is installing cameras in a growing number of public spaces to enforce the law that women must wear a hijab. Iran’s police chief made a statement, loosely translated by i24 News as follows: “With the use of advanced […]
War on Cash: India Rolling Out Retail Pilot Program for Digital Rupee
We recently reported that the Federal Reserve plans to launch a 12-week pilot program in partnership with several large commercial banks to test the feasibility of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The US isn’t alone in experimenting with digital currency. India is working on developing a digital rupee and […]