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Intelligence Squared

The Sunday Debate: Blockchain, Quantum Leap Forward or Digital Snake Oil?

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Arts

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Blockchain technology has gone mainstream. It earns huge amounts of column inches and airtime. Stories abound of Bitcoin millionaires and multimillion-dollar ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). New cryptocurrencies are launched every week. People who don’t entirely understand what they’re buying are rushing to purchase Bitcoin for fear of missing out, and recently the UK's Royal Mint announced its first ever blockchain-based non-fungible token, an NFT. Back in 2018, Intelligence Squared gathered crypto specialists to debate whether blockchain technology has a legitimate future or not, including Jamie Bartlett, author and analyst on the politics of the internet, blockchain expert Primavera De Filippi, Vit Jedlička, President of the micronation Liberland, and crypto journalist David Gerard. The host for this discussion was journalist, author and former BBC News Editorial Director, Kamal Ahmed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already

0:04.3

hitting some of the world's poorest hardest.

0:06.6

The practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling

0:11.0

how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of turbulent change.

0:15.0

People like Pauline from Kenya, dry out as killed nearly all the animals that she and

0:19.1

her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis doesn't just impact

0:23.6

nature, it's decimated her income, her savings and is changing a wider community's way

0:28.2

of life.

0:29.2

The practical action believes that where there's action, there's hope, practical action

0:33.0

have introduced solar-powered irrigation and are training people such as Pauline to

0:37.5

grow vegetables.

0:38.7

With support, she now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to

0:43.2

keep her children fed and in school.

0:45.4

With your help, practical action can do even more regenerating depleted land into productive

0:49.8

farms, repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable

0:55.0

groups.

0:56.0

Take action today and turn your hope for a better future into reality.

0:59.8

Your donation can help build a world where the lives and livelihoods of the world's

1:03.6

poorest people are no longer at the mercy of climate change or environmental degradation

1:08.6

while there's still time.

1:10.1

Visit practicalaction.org to get involved.

1:13.1

Hello, I'm journalist and presenter Ritala Shah.

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