The Flow of Value: A Prison of Intermediaries

Free markets are an incredible force. They allow humans to come together and produce a global price on something.

But today's 'free markets' aren't really free. Access to markets is gatekept, and the ability for something of value to become instantiated into an asset is permissioned.

Read along with David’s most recent thought piece on why 'Crypto is Here to Set Us Free.'

Read the Article:

https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/crypto-is-here-to-set-us-free?utm_source=url 

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro 1:25 Crypto is here to set us free 2:27 Expressive Markets 9:54 Societal Change 14:19 Private Keys & Value Flow 19:04 Extract to Enable 22:57 Aligning Systems 26:03 Changing Societies 30:49 Building a Better Future

------ Resources:

The Crypto Renaissance: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-the-crypto-renaissance-josh-rosenthal 

Governance & Capital: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-governance-and-capital-joel-monegro 

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