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Building the Boring Stuff: Making Payments Sexy
Constructing the fabric connecting multiple banking structures, blockchains, regulatory regimes and foreign exchange services, and digitizing it for cross-border payments.
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What is the role of the U.S. dollar? Is it not just a purchasing power but a language? As the crypto economy shifts, can stablecoins keep Bitcoin's original promise in payments, foreign exchange and cross-border settlement?
On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” Michael Casey speaks with Gordon Liao, chief economist at Circle, the creator and issuer of the USDC stablecoin token; and Alex McDougal, the CEO of Stablecorp, a Canadian-based company that has created the Canadian dollar-backed stablecoin QCAD, to discuss the future of payments with the integration of stablecoins in the ever-changing crypto economy.
This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine and our executive producer, Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Shepard.”
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HOST
Michael J. Casey
Michael J. Casey is Chairman of The Decentralized AI Society, former Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk and co-author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, a company he cofounded to develop provenance data for digital content. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs.
Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna.
Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media.
Casey owns bitcoin.
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