This episode is a discussion from Stellar’s Meridian conference, in which I moderated the panel, Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption, featuring Jeremy Allaire, cofounder, chairman and CEO of Circle, and Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares. In this discussion, we cover:
- what adoption means and looks like
- why cryptocurrency is at a particularly interesting inflection point
- how central bank digital currencies could affect that
- how blockchains will recede into the background
- how existing fintech payment apps will use blockchains and/or crypto
- where on the road to adoption the industry currently is
- the significance of Crypto Twitter as a marketing tool
- what the crypto industry needs to do in the next year to grow the industry
- why it would have been easier to start a bank than a crypto business
- why the separation of money and state is one of the most interesting experiments in history
- how we’ll see new corporate-like organizations without any connections to any existing legal or financial systems driven by tokens
- what their favorite crypto adoption success story is
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Episode links:
Jeremy Allaire: https://twitter.com/jerallaire
Circle: https://www.circle.com/en/
Meltem Demirors: https://twitter.com/Melt_Dem
Coinshares: https://coinshares.com
PayPal offering crypto: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/12/paypal-says-all-users-in-u-s-can-now-buy-hold-and-sell-cryptocurrencies/
Revolut offering crypto: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/revolut-partners-with-paxos-to-bring-cryptocurrency-trading-to-the-us/