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Paul Ulrich
Paul Ulrich
Paul Ulrich advises governments in the Asia-Pacific on mobile communications-related policy on behalf of the GSM Association. Before joining the GSMA, he was a freelance writer, researcher and policy consultant who has worked on projects or assignments in about 60 countries. He is an economist and public administrator by training, a student of all things Chinese, and a long-time resident of Hong Kong.

The cryptocurrency could massively disrupt the existing system, by undermining government sovereignty over local currencies and allowing capital flight, even threaten half of banks’ turnovers.

The technology allows multiple untrusting parties to access the same database in near-real time, bringing the advantages of speed and privacy protection. Such a decentralised approach to setting up a do-not-call registry may prove a better solution to the problem of unwanted calls.

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