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Streets, our cells. We look at the painful past in order to learn i tions, the so controversial, why are so many people calling for it now . To examine that, we have to go back in time. 1526, the spanish bring 100 enslaved africans to what is now the carolinas and georgia. They were the first known slaves on american soil. We know what happened next. For the next 350 years, africans were enslaved, beaten, tortured and killed. They built the white house. They fought in wars. Their labor built the...

Readers. Thank you, everyone. Its such a pleasure to be here and ive really enjoyed this opopportunity to talk to you about the by far the most peculiar book ive ever written in a longshot. I hope to share that with you today as well as frame some of the questions and issues that it raises. This is a book of one how and several competing whys. The how is, h would you go about creating a digital equivalent for currency, cash and coin . This is a significant technical challenge. You need to create...

Duplicate. Easy to verify, prove it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all people. You must be able to carry the information what it is, what it is worth without generating any information how it is used or by whom and has to do this on platforms and networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records. So to figure out the how of how to make Something Like cash digital is a very tall order which raises the questio...

And this is one how and several competing wise. How do you go about getting the digital equivalent for currency for cash and coining it is a significant technical challenge and you need to create a Digital Object that is difficult to forge and duplicate. Easy to verify, prove it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all people. You must be able to carry the information what it is, what it is worth without generating any information how it is used or by whom an...

Trivial to transact but impossible to forge and duplicate. And to verify they must be able to carry this information about any information so it has to do some platforms and networks and machines to generate effectively those transaction laws and records so to figure out how to make cash digital is a tall order which raises the question of why you would need to build such a thing in answering that question is surveillance to build parallel covert societies to libertarian economics and money to t...

Transact but difficult or impossible to forge and duplicate. It must be easy to verify, to prove that it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all kinds of people. It must be able to carry the information about what it is and what its worth without generating any information about how its used or by whom. It has to do this on platforms, networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records in their very functioning. In...

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Get informed straight from the sources unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Cspan powered by cable. You opened your most recent book with this quote. The complexity devised your books the usually the way. Rick does a tremendous job itself and it is true. No historic event happens, it is tied to many things in research and writing. Want to read a quote from you from 2021 in the times review. A lot of people want to learn things, they want nonfiction ok...

Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well...

And arizona now. You can see it spinning down here between albuquerque and phoenix. Thats the system that will bring snow to the high country starting tonight and small chance for denver and the front range coming up tomorrow. Not today. At lunchtime, 65. And how about 71 for the high temperature. Well take it. Will be a beautiful day. Well check the detailed weekend forecast coming up, but lets check traffic. We have ongoing construction at the lights, that slows things down when you you have s...