Kathryn Haun put away the DEA and Secret Service agents who tried to make off with more than $800,000 in stolen bitcoin while investigating the darknet Silk Road marketplace. She[…]
Category: 2016
How Coin Center Is Helping Define The ‘Big Fuzzy Gray Area’ Of Blockchain And Cryptocurrency Law
As blockchains and cryptocurrencies evolve, there are times when the technology outpaces the law. That’s when Coin Center steps in. The non-profit, which represents the technology, not the industry, and[…]
What Does Cornell’s Emin Gun Sirer See As The Main Security Threats In Cryptocurrency? ‘Everything’
Cornell University computer science professor Emin Gun Sirer, an influential figure in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, describes his ideas for improving security in the space, his skepticism about how[…]
Why A Wall Street Journal Currency Reporter Didn’t Understand Money Until He Learned About Bitcoin
Michael Casey, senior advisor at MIT’s Media Lab and author of The Age of Cryptocurrency, spent 18 years at the Wall Street Journal — a good portion of that covering[…]
Why Tyler And Cameron Winklevoss Fell In Love With Bitcoin
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, CEO and President, respectively, of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, talk about the importance of regulation in a sector once associated in popular culture with illicit activity. The[…]
Blockchain 101 With Andreas Antonopoulos: How Bitcoin Makes Each Of Us As Powerful As A Bank
“Shifting from a perspective of ‘only humans control money’ to ‘machines and software control money’ is really radical and it changes a lot of things,” says the popular blockchain and[…]
How The Blockchain Alliance Helps Law Enforcement With Bitcoin Crime And Developments Like The DAO
Jason Weinstein and Alan Cohn, partner and of counsel, respectively at law firm Steptoe & Johnson, discuss their work with the Blockchain Alliance, a coalition of both blockchain and cryptocurrency[…]
Chain’s Adam Ludwin On Who Is Best Poised To Benefit From Blockchain Technology
As blockchain technology remakes financial services, some companies will be better positioned than others, says Adam Ludwin, CEO of Chain, which has partnered with incumbents like Visa, Citi and Nasdaq.[…]
Want to Diversify Your Portfolio? Try Bitcoin, Say ARK’s Chris Burniske And Coinbase’s Adam White
Invest in oil and gold? In this episode, the co-authors of a compelling white paper explain the four reasons why they believe you may soon be investing in digital oil[…]
MaiTai Global’s Bill Tai On Why Blockchain Is The 6th Wave Of Technology
Bill Tai, a venture capitalist who got his start as a computer chip designer in the 1980s, places blockchain in the context of the broader technological revolution of the last[…]