BREAKDOWN: The Weaponization of the Banking System
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A reading from Nic Carter shows how payments became a tool of policy.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this edition of Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads Nic Carter’s latest for CoinDesk “OnlyFans Shows How the Banking System Is Politicized.”
The piece provides the history of Operation Choke Point and how the legacy of financial weaponization persists to today.
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| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, August 29th, and that means it's time for Long |
| 1:17.2 | Reads Sunday. And look, I'm a simple guy. I've got simple tastes. When Nick Carter writes |
| 1:23.3 | a new opinion piece, especially one that's about the history of the weaponization of the financial |
| 1:28.2 | system. You better believe that's what we're reading for Longread Sunday. I don't need a big intro on |
| 1:34.0 | this one. You know all you need to know. This is OnlyFans shows how the banking system is politicized |
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