What Happens to Crypto When Government Currencies Go Digital?
summary
Central banks are actively experimenting with CBDCs and governments already use digital payments for taxes and cross‑border settlement; private stablecoins and DeFi keep growing — an institutional manager puts 1–2% of assets into bitcoin while layer‑2 systems (Starkware’s demo) reach 9000 transactions per second. Ethereum upgrades phase into ETH2 (first phase expected Q3) and banks build Wyoming rails for crypto fiat on‑ramps. Major unresolved items: regulatory KYC/third‑party rules and potential surveillance versus privacy.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:35Digital Currencies
- 4:38Surveillance
- 6:55Cultural Values Politics
- 11:30Crypto News
- 13:45The Technologies Moment
- 16:00Crypto as a Staging Post
- 17:50Ethereum and Consensus
- 19:00Who will win the battle
- 20:55Will Ethereum be ready
- 23:09Privacy in money
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