Rebecca Rettig, partner at FisherBroyles, talks about Kik’s answer this week to the SEC’s complaint, why she predicted they would make this move as opposed to filing a motion to[…]
Category: 2019
The IRS Is Cracking Down on Crypto Taxes: What You Need to Know
Chandan Lodha, the cofounder and CEO of CoinTracker, talks about the 10,000 letters the IRS sent to cryptocurrency holders last week, what kinds of letters were sent, what recipients should[…]
Jeremy Allaire on Why the US Government Needs a New Category for Digital Assets
Jeremy Allaire, cofounder and CEO of Circle, explains why the company has opened a new subsidiary in Bermuda, obtained a full Digital Assets Business Act license there and how it[…]
Why the Congressional Hearings on Facebook’s Libra Were Good for Bitcoin
Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, explains the significance of all the governmental activity around crypto in the last week — the President’s tweets, the Treasury Secretary’s[…]
Why Crypto Regulation Is Surprisingly Cypherpunk
Lawson Baker, head of operations and general counsel at TokenSoft (disclosure: a previous sponsor of the podcast), explains the significance of this week’s SEC statement on broker-dealer custody of digital[…]
Why It Would Be Good if Libra Rivaled the US Dollar
Michael Casey, chairman of the advisory board at CoinDesk, CEO of Streambed Media and a former Wall Street Journal reporter who covered global financial and economic affairs, discusses the regulatory response[…]
‘Bitcoin Billionaires’ Author Ben Mezrich on the Zuckerberg- Winklevoss Rivalry
Ben Mezrich, author of the Accidental Billionaires, which formed the basis of the movie The Social Network, and the author of the recently published Bitcoin Billionaires about the Winklevoss twins’[…]
Libra’s Dante Disparte on Why We Should Trust a Financial System Designed by Facebook
Dante Disparte, head of policy and communications for the Libra Association, describes the roles of the various entities that make up the Libra ecosystem and how he came to be[…]
Edgeware’s Unusual Lockdrop: Get Tokens Even With Frozen Funds
Dillon Chen, CEO of Edgeware, talks about how the network is distributing its tokens via a “lockdrop” in which people can lock up ether for certain time periods in order[…]
LocalBitcoins on How Bitcoin Trading Compares Across the World
In this conversation, conducted at the Oslo Freedom Forum, Vera Xavier, LocalBitcoins’ Community Manager and Elena Tonoyan, Chief Customer Success Officer, describe what the Helsinki-based company does, how it got[…]