From: Vincenzo lozzo Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:57 PM To: jeffrey E. Cc: Joichi Ito Subject: Quartz: Introducing the world's first national digital currency FYI - looks like Equador will have its own digital currency by December =ttp://qz.com/258989 I've read the announcement in Spanish and essentially they are saying =hat it's a 'digital' centralized thing that you can use through the =hone. I think they have some kind of internal ledger but that's where =he similarity with bitcoin seems to stop Also Jeffrey - you were right on why certain countries seem to be more =eceptive to the idea of a digital currency <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.O.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-id</key> <integer>300121</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>140983S394</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>436546</string> </dict> </plist> 1 EFTA_R1_01768064 EFTA02587393