David sat down with Arjun Vir Singh recently in Dubai to talk about his Better Than Money proposition, giving his insights on the state of money and payments which led him to developing the idea. Better Than Money is a proposed technical solution to the problem of dealing with bank money as the go-between when…
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A Glimpse of Current XX Network Research
Cryptographer and developer Mário Yaksetig posted a tantalising image to the Telegram group on December 15th, 2023 showing the ‘current pipeline’ of research internally: Mário added: “I wanted to give everyone an update regarding what’s in the ongoing Research pipeline. As a curiosity, I’d like to hear from you (the community) what you think the…
250XX Giveaway – Claimed!
Congrats to Strob who managed to complete this puzzle and is also the first person to win two of them! The solution is below. Another one will be created soon, so keep a look out for it! ACROSS2. not quite the chief (9)4. xx (chromosome not currency!) (6)5. rib tickler (18)8. hot apple dessert (12)9….
“Better Than Money” Keynote, Singapore Fintech Festival 2023
On 16th November 2023, David Chaum unveiled his “Better Than Money” system at the Singapore Fintech Festival. The video below is his presentation in full. David mentions the system using the XX Network and its cMixx mixnet from 18:10. After this presentation David conducted a number of interviews where he answered questions about the system,…
David Chaum Discusses “Better Than Money” on Fintech TV
On November 30th 2023, Fintech TV published this video with David Chaum describing his vision for Better Than Money with Patricia Wu. You can read more about the system here.
BIS Publish Project Tourbillon Trial Results
On November 29th 2023, The Bank for International Settlements published a paper describing the piloting of a retail Central Bank Digital Currency created by IBM in collaboration with Swiss National Bank under the name ‘Project Tourbillion’ (Read more about it here). These trails lasted throughout 2023 and proved that a cash-like CBDC with privacy features…
XX Community AMAs Part 1 – Full Meeting Audio and Transcript
On 26th November 2023, at 14:00 UTC, members of the XX Foundation along with David Chaum, Jim Dolbear and members of the Turkish XX Community gathered in the Turkish XX Telegram Group to discuss the project and answer some questions from the Community. The discussion took place over more than two hours and covered various…
XX Network Community AMAs, Part 1 Announced
On Sunday 26th November at 2pm UTC, there will be an AMA hosted by the vibrant Turkish XX Community with David Chaum, Jim Dolbear, Aaron Welwood and Robbie Schubert in attendance to discuss the activities of the Foundation and other entities contributing to the network since the last update. The meeting will be in English…
David Chaum Unveils ‘Better than Money’, Utilising XX’s cMixx+
In a video posted on November 19th 2023 to YouTube, David talks to David Lin at length about a topic he presented at the Singapore Fintech Festival on November 16th , namely his idea of ‘Better than Money‘, dubbed ‘cCash’ in this video, later described as ‘cMoney’ in a written paper. The ‘c’ standing for…
‘cMixx+’ – Enhanced Privacy & Speed in Various Use Cases
On November 17th 2023, a paper was published by the Foundation, authored by David Chaum and Mário Yaksetig, which is a proposed update to the cMixx mix network currently employed by the XX Network, called cMixx+. The update would give the network the ability to mix batch sizes other than 1,000 messages (potentially much more)…