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FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett

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The New Currency Crisis in the United States

There was a legitimate value add that came in the form of paper currencies which were issued by private sector banks and hence they were called banknotes. But once people are willing to accept paper instead of gold coins then a new problem emerges or at least two related potential problems merge one is that counter fitting becomes a thing a possibility because criminals like you or I can essentially imitate paper currencies more readily than we can imitate gold currencies unless we have a bunch of polled already  in which case we don't have to counter fit. We're going through the same evolution in the wildcat crypto space right now and we are in effect in the equivalent of the wildcat banking system today.

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