BREAKDOWN: The Fed Chair and the Treasury Secretary Come Out Against Privacy-Respecting Anonymous Digital Dollar
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The fight to protect privacy in the central bank digital currency era just got more intense.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.
Today on the Brief:
- Fidelity files a bitcoin ETF application
- Stimmies to China
- The situation in the Suez
Our main discussion:
In response to a question from Illinois Democrat Bill Foster during a House hearing earlier this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell went on the record as being against an anonymous digital dollar. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reinforced that stance, saying anonymity made the U.S. government’s anti-money laundering goals extremely difficult to achieve.
In today’s episode, NLW breaks down why bitcoiners should be willing to get involved in the digital dollar privacy fight.
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| 0:49.4 | The unique X-factor that never existed before, the ability to opt out of the monetary regime you |
| 0:55.5 | disagree with, i.e. Bitcoin. For those out there who only want to focus on that, I completely appreciate |
| 1:00.9 | it. However, I think you can do that and something else simultaneously. There is no reason that a digital |
| 1:06.7 | dollar should not preserve financial privacy, just like cash does. In fact, there are many legal |
| 1:11.5 | reasons, constitutional reasons that it should. That's a conversation that Bitcoiners can be |
| 1:16.6 | powerful allies for, but not if we don't engage. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, |
| 1:23.8 | NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts |
| 1:29.1 | remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by nexus.combe, Casper, and Exodus, and produced |
| 1:35.5 | and distributed by CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, March 25th, and today |
| 1:42.4 | we are talking about the Fed chair and the Treasury Secretary |
| 1:46.6 | coming out against a privacy respecting anonymous digital dollar. |
| 1:52.2 | First up, however, let's do the brief. |
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