Crypto Goes Local: How Great Barrington Is Using ‘Digital BerkShares’

Name: Crypto Goes Local: How Great Barrington Is Using ‘Digital BerkShares’
Uploaded: 2022-09-23T16:46:53Z
Duration: 6 min 413 s
Description: Humanity Cash CEO Fennie Wang and Berkshire Food Co-op President Phyllis Webb join “Community Crypto” to explain how “BerkShares,” a local dollar-pegged cryptocurrency for the Berkshire region, aims to keep money circulating in their community and provides economic opportunities to small businesses and banks.

Sep 23, 2022

Humanity Cash CEO Fennie Wang and Berkshire Food Co-op President Phyllis Webb join “Community Crypto” to explain how “BerkShares,” a local dollar-pegged cryptocurrency for the Berkshire region, aims to keep money circulating in their community and provides economic opportunities to small businesses and banks.

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