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Episode 107
Is Digital Money Becoming a Surveillance Tool? [LIVE From AI Summit]
Chastity Murphy, former Senior Advisor at the U.S.Treasury and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, shares her experiences working on digital money legislation, including the Stable Act. She reflects on the transition from cash to digital payments along with her current research developing offline, anonymous public interest payment systems.
Show Notes
In this episode of The Brave Technologist Podcast, we discuss:
- How early stablecoin legislation shaped our understanding of digital money, privacy, and consumer protection
- The gap between technologists and policymakers in understanding digital money
- Real-world risks of surveillance and data visibility in financial transactions
- The potential for new cryptographic capabilities like selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs
- Practical approaches for creating offline, anonymous, and interoperable digital payment systems that don’t sacrifice usability
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