Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (February 26, 2021)

Why Crypto Is Coming Out of the Shadows; Yuval Noah Harari speaks with author Rutger Bregman; The Machine That Made the Vaccine

1. Read: Why Crypto Is Coming Out of the Shadows [via Morgan Stanley]

2. Read: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth. The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with. [via The Atlantic]

3. Listen: Blockchain Chicken Farm: How Tech Changed Rural China [via ChinaTalk]

4. Listen: The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation ‬[via a16z]

5. Watch: Prof. Yuval Noah Harari speaks with author Rutger Bregman, in a moderated conversation by Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist.

6. Watch: Why Is Coal So Important For the Climate?