BTC208: Why CBDCs are Failing & Bitcoin is Winning w/ Dread (Bitcoin Podcast)

You're listening to TIP. Hey everyone, welcome to this Wednesday's release of the Bitcoin Fundamentals Podcast. On this week's show, I have a stellar guest with Jamaica's very own Dred. He's a former world class athlete, entrepreneur building the premier Bitcoin Exchange application for the Caribbean, and he's a board member at OpenSAT. During our conversation, he talks about the unique situation where the Caribbean islands are trying very hard to incorporate a CBDC or central bank digital currency to the local population and why it's all going so terribly wrong. In addition to many other topics, Dread provides an amazing overview of how eCash payments are conducted completely offline.

And without an internet connection for both the sender and the receiver, and how that's all possible. He provides awesome examples and makes engineering uh seem easy by some of his descriptions. So I promise you this isn't a conversation that you'll want to miss. And with that, let's jump right into the conversation with Dred. Celebrating 10 years. You are listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by the Investors Podcast Network.

Now for your host, Preston Pisch. Hey everyone, welcome to the show. I'm here with Dred. Welcome to Bitcoin Fundamentals on the Investors Podcast Network. Thank you, Preston. Pleasure to be here. So we've gotten to know each other through a couple different events that we've both attended. You're obviously in the Bitcoin space, you're building in the Bitcoin space.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (58 minutes, 11,945 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.