BREAKDOWN: A Former US Senator and Ambassador to China on the Need for Stablecoin Regulation
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🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A reading of Max Baucus’ recent essay.
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This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” reading is Max Baucus’ “The Urgent Need for Regulatory Clarity on Stablecoins.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:08.9 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Abra, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, January 16th, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 0:29.9 | Today, we are reading a piece by a former U.S. ambassador to China, a former U.S. senator, Max Baucus. |
| 0:40.5 | The piece is called the urgent need for regulatory clarity on stable coins. But before we get into that, if you were enjoying the show, I would love |
| 0:46.2 | if you could go subscribe to it, give it a rating or a review, or join us for the conversation |
| 0:51.2 | on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes, or you can go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:58.4 | Now, as it relates to this piece by Max Baucus, the urgent need for regulatory clarity on stable coins. |
| 1:05.1 | We have obviously spent a ton of time over the last year talking about exactly this issue. We've discussed central bank |
| 1:13.0 | digital currencies, both what's happening in places like China, as well as the U.S.'s ongoing |
| 1:18.5 | debate about whether they should have a U.S. digital dollar, a Fed coin. Just this week, |
| 1:24.3 | Congressman Tom Emmer introduced a bill that would prohibit the Fed from issuing a CBDC directly to retail |
| 1:30.5 | and tried to make a case for a totally different set of values, cash-type values, Bitcoin-type values, frankly, |
| 1:37.1 | to be embedded in any sort of digital dollar that we ever decide to do. |
| 1:41.7 | With that setup, let's see what former U.S. ambassador to China and U.S. Senator |
| 1:46.4 | Max Baucus thinks. Recently, leaders from six cryptocurrency companies testified before Congress |
| 1:52.9 | about the opportunity and promise of digital currencies and also answered lawmakers' questions |
| 1:57.6 | about the risks that come with their use. Stablecoins were at the center |
| 2:01.2 | of much of the discussion as these fast-growing crypto assets are at the center of a debate |
| 2:05.6 | around the regulation of cryptocurrency. Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer, agreeing in October |
| 2:11.1 | to pay the Commodity Futures Trading Commission $41 million for misrepresenting the dollar |
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