The Global Dollar
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Good Dollar/Anna Stone
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Background Research
- For this 8th episode of the BanklessAfrica podcast, we are joined by Anna Stone, the Head of Strategy & Market Lead at Good Dollar
- Launched September 7, 2020 by eToro
Questions:
- How did you find the blockchain & crypto space? How did you end up finding yourself at Good Dollar? ✅
- What are UBIs and how do they work? ✅
- Social innovation mindset - is this openly explored/applied in blockchain innovations? ✅
- What do you make of the term “Banking the unbanked”? What exactly does it mean? Does it refer to the traditional centralised banking or it’s just an umbrella term? ✅
- Talk us through how the Good Dollar in particular works; you call yourselves ‘a global movement to bring economic opportunity to all. Free crypto, every day, for all who want it’, can you elaborate on that? ✅
- There are so many other UBI platforms out there, how is Good Dollar different? What is the inherent goodness in Good Dollar? ✅
- What can they do with those dollars, can they use it to invest in eToro’s main investing platform?
- The social sales platform, who secures the logistics of it all, particularly the shipping of the goods sold on the GD market?
- Where does GD get it’s funds from? ✅ How is the value determined? ✅ How long until that money ‘runs out’? - G$130million () distributed with 443k active members.
- How do you see the African continent fitting into the ecosystem?
- What is the subliminal messaging of ‘Good Dollar’ for the regular African?
- How do you onboard them and educate them about this magic internet money? ✅
- Governance wise, you operate under Good DAO, why a DAO and not just a non-profit? ✅
- Talk about the V2 upgrade of GD & the staking element of GD
- 3 words on how you feel about the web3 space
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