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Podcast: The WallBuilders Show
Episode: How Digital IDs Could Reshape Freedom, Work, And Money
Description: A “free” digital ID sounds harmless—until it becomes the key that decides whether you can work, bank, travel, or donate. We invited Alex Newman to brief us and a room full of legislators on how digital IDs are being woven into a larger digital public infrastructure that links identity, payments, health records, and even carbon scores. The pitch is convenience and inclusion; the fine print is programmability and control.We walk through the architecture being promoted by global institutions: national digital IDs tied to central bank digital currencies, where money can be coded with rules, expirations, and pu...