CARPE CONSENSUS: Insights From El Salvador's Pioneering Legal Tender Experiment

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Martin has spent the last few months traveling across El Salvador, speaking with locals, developers, expats and merchants about the country’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender. On “Carpe Consensus,” hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson dive into the latest crypto news. [3:32] Inside the Desk: CoinDesk courtroom reporter Elizabeth Napolitano recaps what’s been going on inside Sam Bankman Fried’s court hearings ahead of his October trial. Notably, SBF is back in jail. [13:40] Jonathan Martin has been traveling across El Salvador, checking in on the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Are locals buying it? His latest focus is on Lightning's role in bitcoin adoption. [22:46] Things We Are Freaking Out About: The potato boon moves from Idaho to Washington state. Ben’s worried about weather. “Carpe Consensus” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:00.9	Join hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto.
1:15.1	Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus.
1:19.6	This is a podcast from the CoinDest Podcast Network, and my name is Ben Shiller.
1:21.3	I'm the features editor here at CoinDesk.
1:23.1	And joining me today is Danny Nelson.
1:23.8	Hi, Danny.
1:25.1	Hello, Ben.
1:25.7	How are you?
1:27.0	I'm good.
1:32.0	It was a tough week for CoinDest last week with a series of layoffs that we were impelled to make. How are you feeling about all that?
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