In this panel, recorded at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019, I moderated what an attendee described as a “lively” discussion on the relationship between finances and freedom with Bitcoin author[…]
Category: 2019
Blockchain CEO Peter Smith on Its Dark Pool, Crypto Lending Operation and Plans to Go Public
Peter Smith, the CEO of Blockchain, discusses how the company got started, why the company is focused on users owning their own private keys and how that is what enables[…]
Kin Sets Up $5 Million DefendCrypto.org to Take on the SEC
Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik and the founder of the Kin Foundation, and Patrick Gibbs, partner at Cooley, announce the formation of the $5 million DefendCrypto.org fund at Coinbase Custody to[…]
How to Trade on Crypto Exchanges Without Fear of Hacks
Sharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen and Boston University computer science professor, describes how the protocol enables people to trade on crypto exchanges without making their coins vulnerable to exchange hacks,[…]
Parity’s Jutta Steiner and Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Substrate and the Frozen Funds
Jutta Steiner, CEO of Parity, and Gavin Wood, who goes by the title “chief white space officer,” describe the network Parity plans to launch later this year, Polkadot, how it[…]
Tagomi: A One-Stop Solution for Large Crypto Trades
Jennifer Campbell and Kevin Johnson, cofounder and COO, respectively, of Tagomi, describe how Tagomi helps institutional players make larger crypto trades more efficiently and at the best price possible, plus[…]
Want to Connect Blockchains? Cosmos Has Tools for Coders
Jae Kwon, founder and CEO of Tendermint and president of the Interchain Foundation, and Ethan Buchman, cofounder of Tendermint and Cosmos and technical director of the Interchain Foundation, discuss the[…]
Charlie Lee on How Litecoin Can Be Truly Successful
Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin and aka SatoshiLite, discusses how he came to launch Litecoin, how the “fair” launch may have helped its success, why he didn’t work on[…]
Why Beam Thinks Businesses Will Use Its Cryptocurrency
Alexander Zaidelson, the CEO of Beam, a cryptocurrency being built on the MimbleWimble protocol, talks about how he came to start Beam, how it differs from Grin, another cryptocurrency being[…]
Grin: A More Private, Lighter Bitcoin
Daniel Lehnberg and Michael Cordner, core team members of Grin, discuss the first implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol, named after a tongue-tying curse in Harry Potter. We discuss the many[…]