147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
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Before Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its currency, the naira. It turns out the more likely culprit is more than a decade of economic mismanagement, as we explore in an encore episode of Mic Drop.
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