Fighting the Digital Dollar
summary
Comparative realities: China rolls out eCNY in 29 cities with pilots on the Beijing metro and cross‑border experiments like mBridge and an eCNY oil purchase; the Bahamas’ Sand Dollar goes offline for about ~180 days as a real failure case; Thailand runs targeted CBDC pilots that hand out time‑limited vouchers with programmed expiry and 4 km geofencing that ban fuel and alcohol. Centralized systems show surveillance, freezing and linkage to digital ID (Shanghai leak of ~1.1 billion records cited), while Bitcoin remains censorship‑resistant.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and panel
- 2:56CBDC implementation in Israel
- 5:44China and the digital yuan
- 9:24Lines of defense against CBDCs
- 13:13Educating the public
- 14:43Stablecoins and government
- 20:04Risks of stablecoins
- 21:50CBDC pilots in Thailand
- 23:54Techno-authoritarianism
- 26:08Bitcoin as the alternative
- 28:52Final thoughts and closing
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