"Izabella, this is brilliant. Read of the weekend."

Frankly, he had me at Izabella.

Izabella, this is brilliant. Read of the weekend.

— John Egan (@iamjohnegan) July 4, 2020

So... this isn’t really an Alphaville thing so I thought I would tweet thread it (rather than write about it formally) as it’s both a fascinating story and an important development that the secular minded might not appreciate is going on in. Relates to this Trump tweet https://t.co/4yZX8f3eAw

— Izabella Kaminska (@izakaminska) July 4, 2020

(Apologies to those who are more informed than me and if I get any bits of this narrative wrong - I sit somewhere in between these two worlds).

— Izabella Kaminska (@izakaminska) July 4, 2020 

MUCH MORE (THREAD)

And if that isn't your cup of chai* there was this at FT Alphaville on Tuesday last:

2020-06-30T12:46:30.662Z
By: Izabella Kaminska 
Walled gardens versus open markets in payments

The BIS wants central banks to lure digital money users 

from private closed-system challengers with openness.
But perhaps a better strategy is to offer guaranteed privacy.

*Chai being the Russian for tea see Quartz "Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea."

Except for the Baltic where things get a little more interesting:

"The Polish word for a tea-kettle is czajnik, which could be derived directly from chai or from the cognate Russian word. However, tea in Polish is herbata, which, as well as Lithuanian arbata, was derived from the Dutch herba thee, although a minority believes that it was derived Latin herba thea, meaning "tea herb."

—Wikipedia, Etymology of Tea

And visually:

World Atlas of Language Structures via Maps Madness.