MONEY REIMAGINED: The ‘Perfect Storm’ of WorldCoin and Economic Empowerment Through Bitcoin Mining

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” Michael Casey and Sheila Warren kick off the show by talking about WorldCoin, which has dominated the news cycle in the crypto space for the last 24 hours. They discuss digital identity as a project, biometrics as an abuse of human rights, and why people are emotional about it. Casey and Warren shift to chat with guest Adrian Hale the Director of Economic & Community Development at Foundry about what is really going on with education and emergent jobs in Bitcoin Mining concerning lower-income communities. Disclaimer: DCG (Digital Currency Group) is the owner of both Foundry and CoinDesk. Other Links: foundrydigital.com Foundry Deploy Stories: Worldcoin Token Slumps Amid Crypto Community Unease UK Information Commission to Make Inquiries About Worldcoin Worldcoin Releases Tokenomics, Report Geofenced for Some Countries Elon Musk’s Twitter Overhaul Could Be Huge for DOGE and Crypto Generally Dogecoin Bumps 10% on X Payments Speculation, DOGE Futures Traders Lose $10M Money Reimagined has been produced and edited by senior producer Michele Musso and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “AITA” by Neon Beach. 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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0:00.0	Money is changing, both in form and function.
0:13.0	Money Reimagined is about the changing nature of money, digital currencies, and various topics
0:18.4	related to finance, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence,
0:22.9	and more.
0:23.9	Michael Casey and Sheila Warren walk us through the dynamic and evolving nature of the global
0:28.5	economy and the implications for businesses, governments, and individuals as they must adapt
0:34.1	to new payment methods and technologies. Welcome to Money Reimagined.
0:41.2	Hello and welcome to Money Reimagined.
0:43.1	I'm Sheila Warren.
0:44.6	A quick reminder, you can listen to us weekly on the CoinDesk Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts,
0:50.0	and we always love to hear from you.
0:51.8	You can email us at Podcasts at CoinDes.com subject line, Money Reimagined,
0:56.3	with suggestions for guests or comments on our shows.
0:59.3	It's another wild week in crypto, both in the regulatory side
1:02.6	and in terms of new product launches.
1:05.2	We thought we'd kick off this week's episode with Michael and I chatting a bit about
1:08.7	World Coin, which has dominated the news cycle in the crypto space for the last 24 hours. Lots of excitement and consternation about this
1:16.2	concept, which St. Altman has been building for quite some time, but it's now live. Michael,
1:21.5	what are your thoughts on this whole? All right. So I think like WorldCoin, it's a perfect storm for the mega narrative, all the things, right?
1:32.9	It's like AI, it's Sam Haltman, it's WorldCoyne, it's conspiracy, it's all these things.
1:37.6	And it's got an orb.
1:38.9	And it's got the orb, which is just like this thing to focus on the orb.
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