‘If You’re Not Radicalized, You’re Not Paying Attention’ Feat. Nic Carter

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this wide-ranging discussion, Castle Island Ventures founding partner and Coin Metrics co-founder Nic Carter joins @NLW to discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why corporations weren’t adequately prepared for any serious economic trouble, much less a global pandemic </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why government backstopping the corporations leads to inappropriate risk-taking </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How stock buybacks became a boogeyman of the current crisis </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the crisis is actually four crises in one: health, economic, financial, and geopolitical</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Covid-19 could accelerate the US’ withdrawal from the world and China stepping into the void </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the response to the handling of Covid-19 could lead some to authoritarianism </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How stablecoins are allowing global market exposure to the world’s most in-demand currency: the USD </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why stablecoins and central bank digital currencies look the same but are functionally opposite </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why a ‘naive safe haven’ narrative was never correct for bitcoin</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why bitcoin was designed for exactly this type of moment.</span></li> </ul>