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#471: Fighting The Digital Dollar And AI Surveillance with Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

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CHAPTER

Building Alternative Architectures and Taking Real Actions

This chapter emphasizes the need for individuals to take initiative and create sustainable communities and structures. It discusses the concept of building alternative architectures that resist control and promote creativity, and the importance of practical skills and disconnecting from reliance on technology for a revolution.

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Marty sits down with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin to discuss their new piece on Farmington and the digital dollar.

Unlimited Hangout Article: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/12/investigative-reports/unmasking-farmington-ftx-fluent-finance-and-the-coming-digital-dollar/

Whitney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb

Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgoodw_in

0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Exposition on Farmington and Fluent Finance
12:47 - Stablecoins
21:18 - Transitioning to CBDC
35:30 - Crisis as pretense for surveillance and war
53:59 - Digital ID
1:04:02 - Powell’s not your pal
1:07:37 - Figuring out the de facto CBDC
1:13:41 - Manufactured consent psyops
1:18:46 - National figureheads
1:28:56 - Social media warzone
1:37:04 - Preventing Bitcoin co-opting
1:49:13 - They’ll profile and surveil everyone
1:59:05 - Fighting AI-controlled life
2:25:37 - Building alternatives
2:34:50 - Wrapping up