Adam White, vice president and general manager of Coinbase, explains why he believes the SEC’s statement Thursday that ether, in its current form, is not a security, is a historic[…]
Category: 2018

Joey Krug on How to Create a Regular Cryptocurrency – Ep.022
Joey Krug, cofounder of Augur and chief investment officer at Pantera Capital, talks about the upcoming Augur launch, and why we haven’t yet seen a regular, non-deflationary, non-stablecoin cryptocurrency —[…]

Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on the First Crypto War – Ep.021
Think Bitcoin and crypto assets are just vehicles for speculation? They’re already having both a positive impact and negative impact when it comes to human rights, says Alex Gladstein, chief[…]

Jill Carlson on How Crypto Is Replicating Wall Street — And Not in a Good Way – Ep.020
Blockchain consultant, Jill Carlson, who has worked with 0x, dydx, Algorand, Tezos, O1 Labs, and the IMF, discusses why Blockchain Week to her seemed to be too much about Lambos[…]

Mike Novogratz on Why Incumbents Are Still Well Positioned to Participate in Crypto Finance
Mike Novogratz, the founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital Capital Management, talks about the recently announced Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index, why it’s limited to just 12 cryptos, how traditional financial[…]

Battling Corruption With Blockchain Technology: Tomicah Tillemann of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator
Many government officials have noted the potential blockchain technology has to fight fraud, waste and abuse. Tomicah Tillemann, cofounder of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator, assembled an intimate group of 18[…]

The UN World Food Programme’s Blockchain-Based Food Vouchers for Syrian Refugees, With Robert Opp
Robert Opp, director of innovation and change management at the United Nations World Food Programme, discusses the Ethereum-based food voucher program for Syrian refugees. He describes how the refugees are[…]

From the Bellagio Blockchain Summit: Blockchain Ethics With Georgetown’s Cara LaPointe
Who sets up the rules of a blockchain? And how does that impact its users? Could there be unintended consequences? Might the design not account for the potential that bad[…]

From the Multicoin Summit: Ryan Selkis of Messari on How to Fund Sustainable Journalism
Ryan Selkis of blockchain standards organization Messari explains why he jumped into a public debate between CoinDesk editor Pete Rizzo and Vitalik and Ethereum, in which Vitalik criticized CoinDesk for[…]

Civic’s Vinny Lingham on When Crypto Demand Will Catch Up With the Technology
Vinny Lingham, the founder and CEO of blockchain-based identity service Civic, talks about how he hasn’t seen token projects find good product-market fit yet, and gives us a sneak preview[…]