BREAKDOWN: Why Governments Should Invest in Bitcoin Infrastructure
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
An argument that the Bitcoin network is a public good and governments should invest in public goods.
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This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” is a reading of “Bitcoin: An Orange New Deal” by Andrew Bailey and Bradley Rettler.
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.7 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world. |
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| 1:12.2 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, July 18th, and that means it's time for Long |
| 1:17.9 | Reads Sunday. Last week, I read a piece that was basically a progressive argument for Bitcoin, |
| 1:24.6 | and today is almost a bit of a follow-up. It's by Andrew Bailey and Bradley |
| 1:29.0 | Rettler, two folks who have been on this show before, talking about Bitcoin and philosophy |
| 1:34.3 | and just the heterogeneity of political philosophy that actually exists within the Bitcoin |
| 1:39.8 | sphere. Many of you guys will be aghast at some of the proposals here, but I think it's a good |
| 1:45.5 | line of inquiry. The piece is called Bitcoin, an orange New Deal. What would it look like if |
| 1:51.7 | governments were to embrace and support the Bitcoin Network? It was featured in Bitcoin |
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