BREAKDOWN: The Fight for DeFi in Washington, D.C., With Miller Whitehouse-Levine
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A discussion of the state of regulatory discourse around decentralized finance.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Circle.
Editor's note: This interview was recorded on Oct. 24 and so it doesn’t reference the events of the last week.
On today’s “Breakdown” interview, NLW is joined by Miller Whitehouse-Levine, policy director at the DeFi Education Fund. They discuss the state of regulatory discourse in Washington, D.C., along with key recent events including Treasury Department sanctions.
Find our guest on Twitter: @millercwl
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| 0:49.7 | What is DFI? |
| 0:50.6 | Is definitely question number one. |
| 0:53.0 | I think the more difficult, profound questions |
| 0:56.1 | are around societal utility. I think that there are a lot of folks in Congress and among |
| 1:03.3 | regulators that think the existing financial system works quite well and that the risks in it, |
| 1:08.7 | at least since the global financial crisis, have been appropriately mitigated. |
| 1:13.3 | And Defi crypto is coming along and messing with the magic, so to speak. |
| 1:18.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 1:23.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:29.1 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io and circle and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:36.6 | What's going on, guys, is Thursday, November 10th, and today we are featuring an interview with Miller White House Levine. |
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