Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Visa teams up with Consensys to develop technology for digital currency payment system
dailyrecord.co.ukGlobal payments giant Visa has partnered with blockchain technology solutions firm Consensys to develop technology for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
Announcing plans to launch in the spring, Visa wants to build an on-ramp, or a ‘sandbox’ for central banks to mint CBDCs using Consensys’ Quorum protocol, reports Coin Bureau.
Visa and Consensys will use a ‘two-tier’ distribution system for CBDCs where central banks can use Quorom to set the coin’s monetary attributes, and then use Visa’s payment channels to distribute it to financial institutions.
Data from The Atlantic Council suggests that 87 countries representing 90 per cent of the world’s GDP are exploring CBDCs in some shape or form.
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