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Alexander Mikhailian

Alexander Mikhailian

SWIFT vs. the progress

Just for the record and because I've been asked about this a couple of times, already:

Technically,

  • SWIFT became redundant after Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol was described in 1976.
  • Euroclear became redundant when blockchain technology came out in 2009.
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