Podcast: David Birch on CBDCs and the “currency Cold War”

David Birch is an author, adviser and commentator on digital financial services. We talked about the potential and future of digital currencies.

David Birch is the author of Identity is the New Money; Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money that We Understand to Money that Understands Us; and The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony.

We talked about:

  • what the “Currency Cold War” is and how we got
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