Weekly Roundup 01/14/22 (Crypto-dollarization in Turkey, Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense fund, Banning CBDCs) (EP.277)

Matt and Nic return for more deals and news of the week. In this episode: 

  • Matt loses the podcast audio
  • New Turkey drama
  • Rep Emmer introduces a bill banning a retail focused CBDC
  • Nic releases a song with Gramatik
  • The story behind the Scribbler song
  • We investigate Fan Controlled Football
  • Paypal looks to build a stablecoin
  • Several banks issue the USDF stablecoin
  • Crypto-dollarization in Turkey
  • Why dollarization fails
  • Jack Dorsey starts a Bitcoin developer legal defense fund 
  • Justin Sun is a Grenadan diplomat 

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