Central bank digital currency
Subject in Business
Central bank digital currency has come up in 4 episodes across 3 podcasts in TMT, including Digital Social Hour, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, The Joe Rogan Experience. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Arthur Williams Jr.Former American counterfeiter known for replicating the 1996 $100 bill, now a visual artist
Williams argues a programmable digital dollar would let authorities restrict what and when people can buy, citing the frozen accounts of Canadian trucker protesters.
“It's all programmable, which means they can say, hey, you can't buy gas on Tuesdays. And guess what? Your card will not work on Tuesdays”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #681 - Ex-Counterfeiter Arthur Williams Jr. (Sep 8, 2026) · Listen from 2:03:35
Williams predicts the U.S. financial system cannot be repaired and that a reset in the form of a digital dollar is coming.
“There's going to have to be a reset. There's going to have to be some sort of, and that's what the digital dollar is going to be, right? It's going to be a reset”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #681 - Ex-Counterfeiter Arthur Williams Jr. (Sep 8, 2026) · Listen from 2:03:20
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan fears Americans will end up in a government-controlled digital currency tied to a social credit system.
“is people are going to eventually wind up being stuck in a centralized digital currency that the government controls”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2509 - Caleb Hammer (Jun 4, 2026) · Listen from 2:04:37
Amy DangerfieldRight-wing political commentator and YouTuber, formerly of Valuetainment
Dangerfield warns that combining CBDCs with digital IDs would create the basis for a China-style social credit score.
“CBDCs and digital IDs, once those two things kind of form together, you have the perfect system that underpins a social credit score”
Digital Social Hour: Virginia Is Turning Blue And Nobody’s Stopping It... | Amy Dangerfield | DSH #1975 (May 21, 2026) · Listen from 28:47
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Digital Social Hour · 2 episodes
- This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
#681 - Ex-Counterfeiter Arthur Williams Jr.This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · Sep 8, 2026 · 2 h 21 min
Former counterfeiter Arthur Williams Jr. tells Theo Von how he beat the 1996 $100 bill, went to prison twice, and became an artist.
Fastest Growing Crypto CEO Predicts A Market Collapse | DSH #2032Digital Social Hour · Jun 24, 2026 · 55 min
Sean Kelly interviews crypto wealth manager Jake Claver about XRP, stablecoins, the yen carry trade, a predicted stock market crash, AI trading, and the future of money.
#2509 - Caleb HammerThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 4, 2026 · 2 h 21 min
Joe Rogan and finance YouTuber Caleb Hammer discuss American debt, personal responsibility, government waste, housing, AI and jobs, gender politics, and student loans.
- Virginia Is Turning Blue And Nobody’s Stopping It... | Amy Dangerfield | DSH #1975
Digital Social Hour · May 21, 2026 · 46 min
Commentator Amy Dangerfield tells Sean Kelly about the America First movement, Groypers, digital IDs and free speech, the Epstein files, and her media career.