{"id":17897,"date":"2020-11-06T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=17897"},"modified":"2020-11-06T20:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T20:28:03","slug":"new-money-review-podcast-why-libra-was-bound-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/11\/06\/new-money-review-podcast-why-libra-was-bound-to-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"New Money Review podcast: Why Libra was bound to fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first podcast for <em>Libra Shrugged<\/em> is with Paul Amery at New Money Review: &#8220;Why Libra was bound to fail.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/69918319\/why-libra-was-bound-to-fail\/\"><em>Blubrry<\/em><\/a>] You can play it in the page there, or download the MP3. [<em><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/content.blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/NMRP-2020-11-05-043.mp3\">Blubrry<\/a>, MP3<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>(I recorded one with C. Edward Kelso the night before, but this one came out first.)<\/p>\n<p>The first half talked about <em>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/em> and my sceptical opinions of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and the second half about Libra and CBDCs.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a writeup of the interview on New Money Review. [<a href=\"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/05\/why-libra-was-bound-to-fail\/\"><em>NMR<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Paul also used this photo of me with my newly-arrived beautiful child, which I think I&#8217;ll try to use for everything now.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a podcast and would like to talk about Libra, <a href=\"mailto:dgerard@gmail.com\">please get in touch!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/11\/06\/new-money-review-podcast-why-libra-was-bound-to-fail\/libra-shrugged-paperback\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17900\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/libra-shrugged-paperback-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/libra-shrugged-paperback-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/libra-shrugged-paperback-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/libra-shrugged-paperback-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/libra-shrugged-paperback.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first podcast for Libra Shrugged is with Paul Amery at New Money Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2011,2044,2045,1510],"class_list":["post-17897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-libra-shrugged","tag-new-money-review","tag-paul-amery","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/libra-shrugged-paperback-header.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17906,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17897\/revisions\/17906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}