The MEF Blockchain PodCast

Facebook’s blockchain project has changed again. In the third podcast episode dedicated to Libra’s story Daniele Mensi and Dario Betti discuss what is the ‘new new’ digital currency plan from Facebook. The new brand Diem will be the digital currency for digital payments – and this time it will be a simpler dollar-pegged value. The new simpler, more focused solution is limiting the claim of bringing currency stability and banking to the developing economies, and focussing instead on digital payments. 

100 million users are using cryptocurrency now, is the crypto world turning into a mass-market payment system. Daniele Mensi and Dario Betti discuss in this week issues of MEF Talks Blockchain

This week: If you are a media, sports, or art company you should probably  pay attention to the new way to encapsulate engagement and value: Fan Tokens and Non Fungible Tokens. Daniele and Dario discuss.

This week: Coinbase. Cryptocurrency broker Coinbase's listing on the NASDAQ for $76 billion was a step towards legitimacy for the world of bitcoin. However, intermediaries were exactly what blockchain was supposed to get rid of, so this week Dario and Daniele discuss the in's and out's of Coinbase and what makes it so special.

MEF’s series of Blockchain Podcasts continues with MEF CEO Dario Betti and MEF Blockchain advisor Daniele Mensi's regular discussions on the latest impact and innovations in blockchain in the ecosystem. This week: Digital gaming and payments. There is a lot of interest in new payment systems for games on mobile, with discussion on app store charges shedding more light on some of the newer alternatives. Can Blockchain crypto-currencies become a replacement for making payments in games?

The MEF blockchain podcast looks at the recent development in the financial markets where decentralized access to the market is challenging some of the structure and flows. Interestingly there are parallels between what the world of finance is experiencing and the impact of technologies on telecom. Join Daniele Mensi, MEF Advisor on Blockchain, and Dario Betti.

This week; Daniele Mensi, MEF Advisor on & Dario Betti Blockchains discuss the impact of an experimental form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks, and instead utilizes blockchains and smart contracts.  DeFi has the potential to disrupt the world's  financial markets, so let's jump in and try to understand more about what exactly DeFi means.

This week; an update on Facebook’s Libra. A new strategy update for Facebook’s sponsored consortium for blockchain payments. Facebook has announced it will do away with the idea of the ‘stablecoin’, rather, it will link up to currencies like the US dollar. Daniele Mensi and Dario Betti discuss what the announcement means for the industry.

This week – Paypal has announced support for the blockchain cryptocurrency – will this have an impact on people, and then on the online and mobile payment industry? Too early to say, blockchain remains a speculative asset and payments would usually require a stable currency. “The key is experimenting” says Daniele Mensi…

The regular MEF podcast on the world of Blockchain in telco this week talks about the European Commission (EC) announcement for a new blockchain "regulatory sandbox"; a 30-country pan-European initiative expected to be in place by 2022.