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Why Crypto Matters for Financial Inclusion, Feat. Celo's Marek Olszewski

Why Crypto Matters for Financial Inclusion, Feat. Celo's Marek Olszewski

FromThe Breakdown


Why Crypto Matters for Financial Inclusion, Feat. Celo's Marek Olszewski

FromThe Breakdown

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Around the world, an estimated 1.7 billion people remain unbanked and lacking access to high quality financial services.  Some projects see cryptocurrency as an answer. In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW speaks with Celo co-founder Marek Olszewski about: How Celo was designed differently to address financial inclusion as a primary use case  The problems with centralized approaches to mobile money like m-pesa  Why true financial inclusions solutions must be permissionless  Why technology design isn’t enough and projects that seek to gain adoption require ground up go to market strategies The impact of Libra’s launch on the “bank the unbanked” narrative  How the COVID-19 crisis has changed the narrative around and demand for stabelcoins globally
Released:
May 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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A daily analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw. The Breakdown is part of The Breakdown Network.