Whitney joined TFTC to discuss the nature of stablecoins, CBDCs, and the potential societal pitfalls of centrally controlled artificial intelligence. Available on YouTube and podcast apps.
Ripple, Stellar and Ethereum market themselves as tools of “financial inclusion,” yet all are racing to power CBDC pilots worldwide. Stavroula Pabst shows how their elite backers plan to control the “global payment standard” for programmable money.
Israeli leaders now call for a “technocratic government” in a rebuilt Gaza. Building on Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan, Israeli tech firms, crypto ventures and Silicon Valley billionaires see Palestine as a lab for surveillance, tokenization and impact finance.
Palantir, Anduril and Clearview AI, all backed by Peter Thiel, are using the Ukraine war as a proving ground for AI targeting, autonomous drones and facial recognition, technologies that are poised to be used domestically as tools of surveillance.
Whitney is joined by Bitcoin Magazine's Mark Goodwin to discuss how bitcoin is being used by some to dollarize the world and entrench the very same financial power structures, particularly in the developing world, that bitcoin was ostensibly created to challenge.
Whitney delivered a Keynote at the Bitcoin 2023 conference about how the World Economic Forum Partnership Against Cybercrime is seeking to paint privacy enhancing technology and Bitcoin as national security threats in pursuit of their ultimate ambitions to eliminate financial privacy.
The speech was republished here.
Whitney joins Mark Moss to shed light on who the people at the top are that are pulling the strings and setting policies that push us into a digital prison. She goes in depth about the intelligence community, the banking system, and the ties between Jamie Dimon and Jeffrey Epstein.
