Lawfare Archive: Why You Should Buy Back Your Bitcoin
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
From January 16, 2016: Last week, we hated on bitcoin. This week we give it some love. This week, Brookings hosted a discussion on Bitcoin and the technology that undergirds the currency, specifically focusing on the promise of the distributed-ledger. The panel featured David Wessel, Michael Barr, Brad Peterson, Barry Silbert, and Margaret Liu, on how the blockchain could revolutionize payment flows and reduce the cost of financial transactions, all while securing information and enhancing privacy. They also tackle some of the most pressing policy questions facing the technology—from consumer protection to terrorists' finances—and how those tensions can be addressed.It's a relatively positive take on Bitcoin and its future potential and an argument for why you should buy back your Bitcoin if you sold it after last week's show featuring Lawfare's Bitcoin skeptic, Nick Weaver.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Katherine Pompilio with an episode from the LawFair Archive for February 13th, 2022. |
| 0:46.0 | On yesterday's archive episode, we heard Nick Weaver explain why you should sell your Bitcoin. |
| 0:51.0 | Weaver discussed whether the platform is really a financial opportunity of historic proportions. |
| 0:55.0 | The massive criminal problem law enforcement officials have suggested, or something else entirely, |
| 1:00.0 | a waste of everyone's time and money. |
| 1:02.0 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from January 2016, |
| 1:07.0 | which featured a panel discussion on Bitcoin hosted by the Brookings Institution. |
| 1:11.0 | The panel featured David Wessel, Michael Var, Brad Peterson, Barry Silver, and Margaret Liu. |
| 1:17.0 | On how the blockchain could revolutionize payment flows and reduce the cost of financial transactions, |
| 1:22.0 | all while securing information and enhancing privacy. |
| 1:26.0 | Today's episode offers a relatively positive take on Bitcoin. |
| 1:29.0 | It's future potential, and an argument for why you should buy back your Bitcoin |
| 1:33.0 | if you sold it after listening to yesterday's archive episode. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm Cody Poplin, and this is the LawFair Podcast January 16th, 2016. |
| 1:48.0 | That was Michael Barr, you just heard, non-resident, senior fellow in economic studies of Brookings, |
| 1:53.0 | and professor of law at the University of Michigan. |
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