Yaya Fanusie – The Challenges of Crypto Security
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Glenn takes a shot at defining “cryptocurrency”
5:28 Yaya fills in the gaps
10:15 Solving the double-spending problem
15:58 The partisan divide on crypto
21:27 North Korea’s crypto hackers
26:29 How crypto protocols create value
33:23 The case of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
35:13 How stablecoins can open up global financial markets to nations with weak or unstable currency
36:32 Memecoins: Buyer beware
41:07 China’s use of digital currency to expand its surveillance apparatus
47:35 Should a non-expert invest in crypto?
Recorded May 15, 2025
Links and Readings
Yaya’s audio thriller, The Jabbari Lincoln Files
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| 0:00.0 | Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com. |
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| 0:23.3 | Everybody out there, you've tuned in to the Glenn Show. This is Glenn Lowry. I teach at Brown University. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm host of the Glenn Show. We talk here with somebody interesting every week. Every other week, |
| 0:33.3 | I have a co-host who's John McWhorter. I teach at Brown University and John teaches at Columbia. |
| 0:39.3 | But this week I'm flying solo and I'm talking to Yaya Funisi, |
| 0:45.3 | who is adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a new American security. |
| 0:51.3 | His research focuses on crypto, blockchain and central bank digital currencies. |
| 0:57.3 | And he spent seven years earlier in his career as both an economist and counterterrorism |
| 1:03.2 | analyst in the CIA, where he regularly breed federal law enforcement and U.S. military |
| 1:09.3 | personnel and White House level policymakers. |
| 1:12.2 | So this is a heavy brother that we're talking to over here in the crypto world. |
| 1:17.5 | He has a BA in economics from UC Berkeley and a master's in international affairs from |
| 1:23.2 | Columbia University and has taught on introduction to blockchain technology at Morgan State |
| 1:32.2 | University in Baltimore. |
| 1:35.4 | So welcome to the Glenn Show. |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:38.4 | Hey, Glenn, thanks. |
| 1:39.5 | It's great to be here for, I think, round two or take two? |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah, take two. It's been a while, but what |
| 1:46.4 | have you been up to, man? Oh, I've been just working quite a few things. I mean, on the |
| 1:53.0 | research side, I recently released a paper, a report, co-authored a report on China's digital |
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