Libra Shrugged — Chapter 15: Central bank digital currencies
An excerpt a year after the book’s publication — because I keep referring people to this chapter. Buy the book for more!
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Libra Shrugged is a Smashwords Father’s Day special — get your coupon here!
Your father needs to hear how Facebook tried to plant a data miner atop all of commerce … only to fall flat on their faces, tripped by their own hubris.
Stilgherrian: The 9pm Dumb Anarcho-Capitalist Blockchain Scams with David Gerard
“The following episode of The 9pm Edict contains strong language, financial crimes, and some sad truths about humanity.”
Facebook, WhatsApp Pay, Libra/Diem, CBDC news — Diem live in March?
There’s no evidence that Facebook’s cleared Diem with regulators in the US, the EU and Switzerland — as they pinky-swore they would absolutely do before launch. But I’m sure they wouldn’t go back on their word.
Libra Shrugged — Chapter 6: Banking the unbanked
A book excerpt! Cryptocurrency promoters never detail how they’re actually going to “bank the unbanked.” What would they need to do?
Blockchain Debate Podcast: Diem is a glorified Paypal (David Gerard vs. Bryce Weiner)
The Blockchain Debate Podcast that I recorded in December is up now!
Me in BitcoinBlog.de: “Bitcoin piles up so many layers of ideas that are bad or wrong or just don’t work.”
Christoph Bergmann of BitcoinBlog.de interviewed me about Facebook’s Libra (now Diem), about Libra Shrugged and about Bitcoin.
FT Alphaville Unofficial Tech Chat — David Gerard answers your crypto market questions
Digital gold, Bitcoin mining, CBDCs, DC/EP, Libra and Facebook, corporate crypto purchases, Avalanche and mathcoins, Tether and what happens when the music stops. And Craig Wright.
Finance Magnates podcast: Whatever Happened to Facebook’s Libra? Down the Rabbit Hole with David Gerard
I recorded another podcast with Rachel McIntosh from Finance Magnates — the history of Libra, how Bitcoin-related it is, CBDCs.
The Decrypt Daily podcast — David Gerard Talks New Book on Facebook’s Libra
A podcast on “Libra Shrugged” with Matthew Aaron, who is now doing Decrypt’s official Decrypt Daily podcast.