Crypto and the Global Competition for Talent, With CityCoins Contributor Patrick Stanley

The Breakdown

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4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus and FTX US. Patrick Stanley is the former Head of Growth at Stacks, the founder at Freehold and a contributor at CityCoins. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss one of the biggest trends for the coming decade – the geopolitical competition for talent and resources and how crypto is shaping that battle. Find our guest on Twitter @PatrickWStanley - Nexo is a powerful, all-in-one crypto platform where you can securely store your crypto. Invest, borrow, exchange and earn up to 18% APR on Bitcoin and 20+ other top coins. Insured for $375M. Audited in real-time by Armanino. Rated excellent on Trustpilot. Get started today at nexo.io. - Arculus™ is the next-gen cold storage wallet for your crypto. The sleek, metal Arculus Key™ Card authenticates with the Arculus Wallet™ App, providing a simpler, safer, and more secure solution to store, send, receive, buy, and swap your crypto. Buy now at getarculus.com. - FTX US is the safe, regulated way to buy bitcoin, ETH, SOL and other digital assets. Trade crypto with up to 85% lower fees than top competitors and trade ETH and SOL NFTs with no gas fees and subsidized gas on withdrawals. Sign up at FTX.US today. - Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438693620?at=1000lSDb Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/538vuul1PuorUDwgkC8JWF?si=ddSvD-HST2e_E7wgxcjtfQ Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ubHdjcnlwdG8ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M= Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW _ “The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Time” by OBOY. Image credit: Danny Lehman/The Image Bank/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.

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0:00.0	When I first saw Bitcoin, I was like, great, the meme is don't mess with our money.
0:04.0	Otherwise, we have this release valve that essentially breaks your MMT model.
0:08.5	And that's pretty dope.
0:10.0	And we shall love that and we shall try to get as much Bitcoin as possible and never sell.
0:14.2	The Citicoins is very different.
0:15.8	It's like, now that we've done that, let's build crypto civilization as opposed to just crypto anarchy.
0:23.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big
0:30.3	picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX,
0:36.8	and produced and distributed by CoinDesk.
0:40.8	What's going on, guys? It is Friday, February 4th, and today I am joined by my guest, Patrick
0:47.4	Stanley. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe,
0:52.2	rate review, and join the Discord. You can find a link to
0:56.0	the breakers discord in the show notes, or you can go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. Now, Patrick
1:02.1	Stanley is a super interesting dude, as you'll find out. He's the former head of growth at Stacks,
1:07.5	formerly Blockstack. He's the founder at Freehold, and he's one of the core contributors
1:12.4	to Citiccoins, which is going to be a big part of the conversation today. In that conversation,
1:17.1	we talk about stacks and how it doubled down on Bitcoin. We talk about city coins in geographic
1:22.7	competition for talent. And finally, we zoom out and talk a little bit about what the next few years might
1:28.6	hold as it relates to Bitcoin, the dollar, and more. Without any further ado, let's dive in.
1:36.1	All right, Patrick, welcome to The Breakdown. How are you, sir? Good. How are you? Good. I'm super
1:42.4	excited for this. You know, we were just talking about this,
1:44.3	but, you know, we kind of had this back and forth, you know, wanted to do this for a while.
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