OTR29-THEY BUILT THE DIGITAL GUILLOTINE - How The Fed MIT Secretly Engineered Your Financial Prison - On The Record with Christian Briggs

Christian Briggs pulls back the curtain on the federal push to weaponize a retail central‑bank digital currency. He traces the origins of Project Hamilton, the secret MIT‑Fed partnership that proved a ledger capable of two million transactions per second, and shows how that technical triumph was hidden from the public while lawmakers were lulled with vague briefings. Briggs explains why a CBDC would replace cash with an account directly on the Federal Reserve’s master ledger, giving unelected bureaucrats absolute control over who can spend, receive or even hold money. The episode features a candid interview with Senator Bill Hagerty, who warns that a centralized digital dollar would erase financial privacy, annihilate community banks and enable instantaneous, government‑ordered freezes of everyday purchases. The discussion expands to the global stage, detailing the BIS’s M‑Bridge project that lets sovereign digital currencies bypass the dollar and SWIFT, further eroding U.S. economic leverage. Briggs argues that the only practical defense is to move wealth into physical gold and demand congressional legislation—like the bills championed by Hagerty—that bans any retail CBDC without a direct vote. Listeners walk away with a clear picture of the looming financial prison and concrete steps to protect their liberty and assets.

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