Bitcoin Andrés Arauz doesn’t fit the bill of a typical former central bank director. Just 37 years old, the Ecuadorian economist and politician is a member of the left-wing Progressive International party and recently joined the privacy infrastructure company Nym as a special adviser—returning to the private sector after coming within a few hundred thousand votes of the Ecuadorian presidency in 2021.   While his counterparts at central banks across the world fret over the rise of digital currencies, Arauz has long been an advocate. During the global financial crisis in 2009, he helped design a state-managed digital money system […]