MONEY REIMAGINED: Redesigning Money - What Drives the Fintech Space?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This episode is sponsored by Circle and Near.
Can financial inclusion be achieved without a bank account or a digital money solution, such as crypto?
Host Michael Casey is solo on this episode of “Money Reimagined,” to speak with Brett Scott, journalist, financial hacker, activist, and author of ‘Cloud Money: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for Our Wallets.’
According to Scott’s thesis, digitizing money is putting humanity at risk. He argues that cash, with its unique capacity to preserve privacy and avoid central surveillance, is an important escape valve for societies to sustain their freedom. And while those concerns align with the views of many in the crypto community, Scott is not a big fan.
However, if crypto is to evolve, his perspective is an important one for people to absorb.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Circle and Near. |
| 0:04.9 | Money is changing. |
| 0:07.3 | So where do we go from here? |
| 0:09.7 | Through high-profile interviews and thought-provoking analysis, |
| 0:12.7 | join Michael Casey and Sheila Warren for the Money Reimagined podcast, |
| 0:16.9 | as they explore the connection between finance, human culture, |
| 0:19.4 | and are increasingly digital lives. |
| 0:23.3 | And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a new source and does not provide investment advice. |
| 0:28.6 | And now, here's Michael Casey. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello and welcome to Money Reimagined. I'm Michael Casey. |
| 0:36.1 | Today I'm coming to you solo. Sheila is otherwise |
| 0:38.7 | occupied and we'll be back with us next week. For today's episode, I've decided to do a bit of a |
| 0:44.0 | rerun of a conversation I thoroughly enjoyed having with a journalist, author and activist Brett |
| 0:49.0 | Scott, the Nicon conference in Lisbon last month. Brett's book, Cloud Money, Cash, Cards, Crypto, |
| 0:56.7 | and The War for Our Wallets is a no-holds-barred look at the less than holy motives that drive |
| 1:03.2 | many actors in the so-called fintech space. It's fair to say that Brett is not exactly a crypto-fanatic. |
| 1:09.6 | That's not to say he's always a critic, though. |
| 1:11.9 | What he is is a voice for the human beings worldwide who are being swept up into this |
| 1:17.3 | movement to redesign money. In some respects, cloud money is an homage to the value of cash, |
| 1:23.6 | banknotes and coins, for the anonymity that it affords people, and for what Brett describes as the |
| 1:29.0 | kind of subversive capacity to reject surveillance and control by governments and bankers. |
| 1:34.4 | Fair enough, but in a global economy that is digital and global, how do we give people inclusion |
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