Audible brings your wildest adventures to life, delivering heart-pounding thrills at the touch

of a button.

Take Richard Osmond's The Thursday Murder Club, where four retirees turned amateur sleuths

solve crimes in the most unexpected ways, brilliantly performed by Leslie Manville.

Ready to unleash your adventure aside, from pulse racing suspense to epic quests, from supernatural

chills to far-off romances, every story comes alive through world-class narration.

Explore exclusive audible originals, chart-topping new releases, and unforgettable bestsellers

that transport you from the very first word, because the next great

adventure is just a listener way.

Start your free 30-day trial at audible.com slash Wondery UK.

That's audible.com slash Wondery UK.

Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world.

The breakdown is sponsored by crypto.com, nexo.io, and elliptic, and produced and distributed by coin desk. What's going on, guys? It is

Sunday, October 25th, and that means it's time for long reads Sunday. And today, as I sometimes do,

I'm actually going to read two shorter pieces that I think go together and frame an important

conversation that's on the rise right now.

The discussion of central bank digital currencies heats up it feels by the week.

We keep seeing international organizations talking more about them, but I think even in the last

week, the biggest thing that I saw was that PayPal was so clearly thinking about CBDCs when they were

releasing their new cryptocurrency features. They clearly want to be a layer that interoperates

between those digital currencies and every other type of digital currency. But with that

...