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Interview with the Chinese central bank researcher who called for Bitcoin as legal tender in 2011

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Author: Web3 Characters Original link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/lKmEqyA9LUl3MHt1vk0DPw Can you briefly introduce yourself? Hello, I am Hong Shuning, the author of China’s first Bitcoin research paper. I graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University and have worked for a long time at the Nanjing branch of the People’s Bank of China. In recent years, I have served as the Deputy Director of the Fintech Research Center of Suning Financial Research Institute, Dean of the Shanghai Jin Qiu Blockchain Research Institute, and a senior blockchain expert at CCB Fintech. Can you share how you entered the cryptocurrency circle? In 1992, after graduating from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, I have always worked in the IT and finance fields. I worked for the Nanjing branch of the People’s Bank of China for a full 20 years, during which I was involved in various fields, including payment clearing and credit management. In 2011, when I was working...

Pharma companies team up with DeSci to accelerate scientific research

Pfizer is now the first big pharma to participate in a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Having emerged as a movement in the research community, Decentralized Science (DeSci) initiatives are progressing at a pace even big pharma cannot ignore. In fact, Pfizer is now the first pharmaceutical to vote on decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) proposals of German blockchain-based organization VitaDAO. The collaboration is part of VitaDAO's latest fundraising disclosed in late January from strategic members, including Pfizer Ventures, Shine Capital and L1 Digital, among other longevity enthusiasts. The $4.1 million raised will be used to fund longevity research projects and accelerate the spinout of VitaDAO's first biotech startups, with two more in development for 2023. "Pfizer is now bringing some of their own scientists to join with the community of research ers who are part of Vita DAO to help incubate some of this research ," told Cointelegraph A...