Rich Sanders, cofounder and chief security officer of CipherBlade, and Harry Denley, director of security of MyCrypto.com, discuss the phone porting phenomenon: who’s behind these thefts, how they perpetrate them, who[…]
Category: 2019
How the Caribbean Got on the Road to Central Bank Digital Currencies
Gabriel Abed, founder of Bitt.com and Vice President of the board of directors, describes how he went from mining Bitcoin to persuading governors of central banks to not quash Bitt’s goal to create[…]
How Asia’s Trading Culture Results in a Vastly Different Crypto Scene
Luis Buenaventura, founder of Bloom Solutions, and Leo Weese, president of Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong, discuss the crypto scene in Asia — how it differs from that of the[…]
Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on the 3 Reasons Bitcoin Matters
In recent years, the Human Rights Foundation and Alex Gladstein, its chief strategy officer, have become forces in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community. In this episode, he discusses why Bitcoin[…]
Not Sure a Cryptoeconomic System Will Work? Gauntlet Can Help
Tarun Chitra, cofounder and CEO of Gauntlet, describes how his company enables crypto teams to run through simulations to see how their design choices will affect the project once it[…]
Oslo Freedom Forum 2019: Protecting Financial Freedoms in the Digital Age
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[…]
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[…]