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Elizabeth Warren: “Instead of leaving our financial system at the whims of giant banks, crypto puts the system at the whims of some…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2021
Instead of leaving our financial system at the whims of giant banks, crypto puts the system at the whims of some shadowy, faceless group of super-coders and miners, which does not sound better to me.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren critiques the decentralization of crypto, comparing it unfavorably to traditional banking.

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