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72 Why Would People Trust Crypto? with Finn Brunton and Molly White (Trust episode 2)

Reimagining the Internet

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Bitcoin, You Can't Use Currency That Way, Right?

CNN's John Sutter asks how we get from point A to point B with Bitcoin. He says the technology was developed for explicitly political ends, like transforming society. But it also has to be traceable because it's trying to replace gold, he writes. "You make that anonymous online world really attractive by allowing them to do things they couldn't otherwise do"

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