The race is on: The Libra consortium is developing a global payment infrastructure based on an asset-backed stablecoin, the Libra. It could act as a catalyst towards long-needed interoperable payment architectures.
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Technical architectures can feel deterministic when they wall us in, but they can also do the opposite. They can foster an openness that offers or even requires interaction between users and that prompts collaborative sense-making. For inspiration, we can look at the network layer of the Internet.
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Since the commercial Internet began in 1995 network operators have explored ways to make internet interconnection work as a market. Yet, a central prerequisite of this market is still ambiguous: the object of exchange.
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Cogent and Deutsche Telekom were peers... until the US network operator sued its German counterpart. The case serves to illustrate a broader issue in net policy.
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Edward Snowden’s revelations indicate a massive breach of trust in internet infrastructure. However, there is one positive aspect to his revelations: they lead to a greater public awareness for questions regarding the net’s infrastructure -- which is good because infrastructures can easily disappear from perception.
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The internet is seething below the surface. Network operators, internet service providers (ISPs), content delivery networks and network-oriented content providers are caught in a struggle for the best position to earn money with infrastructure services such as providing, distributing and forwarding content.
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Infrastruktur-Betreiber entwickeln eine neue Aufmerksamkeit für die Inhalte, die sie transportieren sollen - mit noch ungeahnten Folgen für die Erfahrung “Internet”.
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