BREAKDOWN: The Transformation of Money
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🗓️ 20 March 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Summaries of two major conversations around the history and future of money.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads two threads from Alex Gladstein that summarize big-think discussions on the history and future of money. The first is a summary of Luke Gromen’s appearance on “The Grant Williams Podcast.” The second is a discussion of Lyn Alden’s essay “What is Money.”
Gladstein on Gromen - twitter.com/gladstein/status/1504158472513929227
Gladstein on Alden - twitter.com/gladstein/status/1502708298302177281
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, March 20th, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 0:29.9 | We have a really fun one, kind of a different thing, two Twitter threads from the same author. |
| 0:35.8 | But before we get into that, if you're enjoying the breakdown, |
| 0:38.4 | please go subscribe to it, give it a five-star rating, leave a nice review, or if you want to get |
| 0:43.2 | deeper into the conversation, come join us on the breakers discord. You can find a link in the show |
| 0:48.0 | notes or go to bit.le slash breakdown pod. Also, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them |
| 0:53.9 | being a sponsor of the show, I also |
| 0:56.2 | work with FTX. Now, if you are a long-time breakdown listener, you will know that one of the |
| 1:02.4 | all-stars of Long Read Sunday is the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. His essays are always |
| 1:09.2 | worth reading and deeply considering. He's the author of a new book, |
| 1:13.7 | Check Your Financial Privilege inside the Global Bitcoin Revolution, which I am incredibly excited to |
| 1:18.7 | check out. But this week, we're doing something a little bit different. Because in addition to |
| 1:23.2 | writing his own thoughts, Alex is also an extremely adept synthesizer. And he's had two recent |
| 1:29.4 | threads that I've really enjoyed summing up other people's work. Now, these are pieces of |
| 1:34.7 | content that, in their own right, are probably things that you've heard of. The first is Luke |
| 1:39.4 | Gromman's appearance on the Grant Williams podcast. Now, you've heard Luke on this show before, and he's an |
| 1:45.8 | incredibly adept financial historian, as well as market thinker. Alex Gladstein writes, |
| 1:51.9 | much has been said about this Luke Grumman interview, but it is indeed that good. So much information |
| 1:56.7 | in history about the international financial system distilled into one conversation, a thread with |
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