Share of remittance operations to pawnshops' income rising: BSP Income of pawnshops from remittance services continues to rise as more institutions tap pawnshops because of their wider reach compared to banks and other financial institutions. --- pna.gov.ph/articles/11136… #ROKS

What is "value trust transference"? It is the process by which a stablecoin gains trust - by having a stablecoin stand in place of another, already established, already trusted, currency, usually a fiat currency. medium.com/rockstable/mon… #ROKS #value #stablecoins #crypto

Philippines: Remittances surprise again, up 7.8% in July Filipinos based abroad sent home more remittances in July as lockdowns were eased in host countries --- think.ing.com/snaps/philippi…

About Amazon Go The experience was interesting and my two high-school kids were amazed at the array of cameras overhead that observed every move we made. No cashier line! Now that is very convenient. --- linkedin.com/pulse/amazon-g…

Bravo, Brian. I appreciate the courage amid companies who pretend to be non-capitalist while being for-profit. I, for one, agree with Coinbase on this. lnkd.in/ge-8ytS #leadership #motivation #culture #management #leader

Now that Ethereum is poised to adopt EIP-1559, it helps to rethink the original purpose of gas fees, namely that it’s solely for security. Learn more: medium.com/rockstable/blo…

If you have any questions about ROKS Remittance, please ask here. Note that the process of sending money to the Philippines will be almost the same as that for Western Union or Remitly. Go to our website (to be announced later), sign-up, name your recipients, then send.

One would think that it should be easy for an OFW to just buy USDC, send it to a recipient in Pinas, and exchange the USDC received for either PHP or USD. Our remittance system uses USDC also, but in Solana (not Ethereum). coins.ph/blog/send-remi…

My discussion with Cato's George Selgin of possible future scenarios with respect to stablecoins and the Fed. x.com/ctapang/status…

Rockstable is one of the sponsors for the AEGIS Concert, which will be held in the Seattle area on October 22nd. 2022. We are giving away $5 to the Aegis concertgoers tomorrow: sendroks.com/aegis #aegis #ROKS

Opening up this idea of an Inflation Resistant Medium of Account (IRMA) for constructive criticism, discussion, or just plain discovery of errors. The lite paper ends with lnkd.in/gtrmKsKN

The Great Impedance Mismatch Imagine the incompatibility of an old train track with a magnetic levitation track. No train can traverse both an old train track and a magnetic levitation track. They are impossibly incompatible. And yet current USD-backed stablecoins are trying to

Cryptocurrencies: F.A. Hayek's Idea Gone Wild Imagine the blockchain space as an environment from which a cambrian-like explosion of wildly varying kinds of money comes out. Consider that each kind of cryptocurrency that emanates from blockchain, from the extremely deflationary

Cryptocurrencies: F.A. Hayek's Idea Gone Wild Imagine the blockchain space as an environment from which a cambrian-like explosion of wildly varying kinds of money comes out. Consider that each kind of cryptocurrency that emanates from blockchain, from the extremely deflationary

Lessons on the theory of money: 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 and value trust transference. The cacophony of emerging cryptocurrencies has taught us valuable lessons. As promised, I'm back for week two of lessons on the theory of money, and this week I'd like to discuss what

Rock Stable has joined the CypherPunk Hackathon for Solana. Here's our second week report. Join us in x.com to keep abreast of what's going on. lnkd.in/gvF5avgX

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