Hello, I'm Rory Stewart, and I'd like to tell you about an intelligent squared event

I'm doing with the classicist author and broadcaster Mary Beard. Together we'll be discussing

politics and power from the Caesars to Sunak, who gets to Winpar, who is excluded. Does power

always corrupt or other examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while an authority?

And how does the nature of power vary across different times and cultures? These are just some of

the questions that Mary and I will be trying to answer. In person tickets are now sold out,

but you can still watch online on the 13th of November at 7pm BST. Put your questions

to us live as we discuss power and politics down the ages. Hello and welcome to intelligence

squared crypto, our new debate series in partnership with Equinex, the Nasdaq listed digital advisory,

and this series will be debating the biggest questions around the rise of cryptocurrency,

and if you do enjoy this first debate you can find links to register for free

for the next two debates in the episode description. We hope you enjoy it,

and now let's go to the host, senior editor, the economist newspaper, Mikel Voey.

Hello and welcome to intelligence squared crypto, a new debate series from intelligence squared

in partnership with Equinex. In the coming weeks we'll be bringing together some leading voices

to try to bridge the gap between the crypto evangelist and the skeptics and to debate the

disruptive rise of cryptocurrency in the future of money itself. I'm your host, Anne McElvoy

from the economist, and tonight's debate is Bitcoin vs Gold. Before we begin, I'm going to ask you

the audience to submit a pre-vote to get a sense of where your opinions lie at the outset.

Let's see if you're persuaded by my two mother's guests tonight. Please vote now for either Bitcoin

or Gold using a poll coming up on the screen. If you're unsure, vote undecided.

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