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NFT, cryptocurrencies, local currencies: exchange differently?
Digital trading cards featuring football players are seen in this illustrative image from the online fantasy football document Sorare obtained by Reuters on September 20, 2021. (Illustrative Image) © REUTERS - Sorare
By: Bruno Faure Follow
1 min
Money is an increasingly virtual concept, a means of exchanging goods and services that is less and less materialized.
Cryptocurrencies, although volatile and despite the reluctance of major financial institutions, are gaining ground.
Blockchain companies, invest the economic forum of Davos.
And then there are new phenomena such as NFTs, these virtual and certified digital objects which also have a value.
They arouse a strong enthusiasm in the fields of art and sport, football in particular.
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah, Lionel Messi, Serena Williams, Lebron James and many more are jumping into this billion-dollar market.
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Hence many questions that we answer in Éco d'ici, Éco d'ailleurs
: what credit should be given to cryptocurrencies, to NFTs
?
Are traditional currencies such as the euro, dollar, yen or CFA franc threatened with competition
?
In these times of generalized inflation, what if we rehabilitated local currencies
?
Our guests :
Magali Tezenas
du Montcel, general delegate of
Sporsora,
an organization that brings together the major players in the sports economy in France.
Ariane Tichit,
economist, lecturer at Clermont Auvergne University, author of
Alternative Currencies.
From monetary diversity to economic diversity
(published by Blaise Pascal University Press), co-author of
Les NFT en 40 questions
(Dunod editions).
Our interview:
The DRC is looking for foreign and local investment.
The organization responsible for promoting them (
ANAPI
) is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Its managing director Anthony Nkinzo takes stock of it and sets out prospects for the years to come, at the microphone of Olivier Rogez from RFI's economy department...
INTERVIEW EDI EDA - 28 05 22 - DRC Anthony Nkinzo ANAPI
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