Why Crypto Matters for Financial Inclusion, Feat. Celo's Marek Olszewski

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Around the world, an estimated 1.7 billion people remain unbanked and lacking access to high quality financial services. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some projects see cryptocurrency as an answer. In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW speaks with Celo co-founder Marek Olszewski about:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Celo was designed differently to address financial inclusion as a primary use case </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The problems with centralized approaches to mobile money like m-pesa </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why true financial inclusions solutions must be permissionless </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why technology design isn’t enough and projects that seek to gain adoption require ground up go to market strategies</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The impact of Libra’s launch on the “bank the unbanked” narrative </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the COVID-19 crisis has changed the narrative around and demand for stabelcoins globally</span></li> </ul>