Neha Narula, director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, discusses Elon Musk’s appearance at ‘The B Word’ conference, along with a few current events in the Bitcoin world. Show highlights:

• her main takeaway from ‘The B Word’ conference
• why governance plays an essential role in Bitcoin’s block size arguments
• what Neha thinks of proof-of-work mining and Bitcon’s environmental concerns
• why Neha is skeptical of Dogecoin becoming a serious cryptocurrency
• why Jack Dorsey’s new Bitcoin platform business is a good idea
• what Bitcoin’s dip in hashrate due to China’s crackdown could affect network security going forward
• what questions Neha has about Bitcoin’s adoption in El Salvador
• why Neha thinks cryptocurrencies and CBDCs will coexist
• what DCI has planned for the rest of 2021

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