I missed the first 10 minutes so if anyone finds the video please list it.
All in all Gavin did well, he wasn't the guy to challenge TPTB on the merits of Austrian economics, but did a great job of expressing illustrating Bitcoins decentralized nature.
I think my take away is Bitcoin is supported buy a bunch of nutters who would rather give money to poor people than fund regime change, or encouraged corporate resource extraction for "mutual benefit " "the greater good" monopolistic profit.
I don't think he emphasized enough, the blockchain as a tool to track money in crime is superior to cash and unlike other records "corporate fraud" you can't burn the records.
No value here, it's a flawed system trying to disrupt PayPal rent seeking, central banks weren't challenged.
That the bitcoin blockchain is open and unencrypted is part of why governments are as complacent about it as they are.
The session was recorded to the CFR youtube channel.
You can watch it again and again if you like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgFUAhz7h2UThis was wise for everyone. Maybe they read enough of this thread to sort of "get it". The CFR has an interest in making their group less scary to people, even though many of their ideas and goals are very wrong headed
1, they do engage in debate and this stuff gets discussed even if their innate sense of entitlement and assurance in their knowledge of "the way things ought to be" leads them down so many dead ends.
If you want to know the CFR better, I'd recommend reading their public magazines and publications. Like any group the members are fairly diverse, but overall have a particular slant. Theirs is very much slanted for TPTB. Maybe the CFR should come out with "compliancecoin" complete with central bank keynesian adjustments at all the wrong times and directions and beholden to political forces just like the central bankers use.
1That their members are openly proud of money backed by military might and float extraterrestrial asteroids as justification for this is sufficient evidence in just this one video.