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The Unexplored Risks of a US Digital Dollar

A reading of two recent essays on central bank digital currencies.

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A reading of two recent essays on central bank digital currencies.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

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For this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads:

What If Somebody Hacks the Money Pipeline Next?” By David Z. Morris

A Central Bank Digital Currency Would Be Bad for the US” by Dante Disparte

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Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.

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