Nic Carter, partner at Fortress Island Ventures, discusses the ways in which cryptocurrencies may perchance well weaken the direct, how they’re already providing a substitute for central bank currencies for of us in economies undergoing hyper-inflation. He describes why Bitcoin is inherently political, which varied coins he views as legitimate and whether or no longer coins may perchance well mild continuously aim to be money or varied sorts can exist. Plus, he explains why he isn’t optimistic about Libra and why Facebook will have to have pegged the price of it to the USD.

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Episode links:

Fortress Island Ventures: https://www.castleisland.vc/

Nic Carter: https://twitter.com/nic__carter

Nic Carter’s contemporary Medium post on Bitcoin as a revolutionary currency: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-most-peaceful-revolution-8b63b64c203e

LocalBitcoins interview on Unconfirmed: https://unchainedpodcast.com/localbitcoins-on-how-bitcoin-shopping and selling-compares-across-the-world/

Unconfirmed interview with Dante Disparte of the Libra Affiliation: https://unchainedpodcast.com/libras-dante-disparte-on-why-we-may perchance well mild-trust-a-monetary-system-designed-by-facebook/

Michael Casey on why it may perchance well well be moral if Libra rivaled the USD: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-it-would-be-moral-if-libra-rivaled-the-us-dollar/

Coin Heart’s Peter Van Valkenburgh on why the Congressional hearings on Facebook’s Libra were moral for Bitcoin: https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-the-congressional-hearings-on-facebooks-libra-were-moral-for-bitcoin/

Unchained interview with the IMF on systems to assemble central bank digital currencies: https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-imf-on-how-to-assemble-central-bank-digital-currencies/