For this episode on the eve of the Bitcoin white paper’s 10-year anniversary, Nathaniel Popper and Paul Vigna, reporters who cover Bitcoin and crypto for The New York Times and[…]
Tag: blockchain
Singularity University Global Summit: How Do We Get Consumer Adoption? – Ep.83
This is a recording of the full “blockchain block” of the Singularity University Global Summit in late August. It features a talk by me on the power of decentralization, Abra[…]
How Widespread Is Money Laundering in Crypto? – Ep.72
Yaya Fanusie, director of analysis at the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Tom Robinson, chief data officer and cofounder of blockchain[…]
Demian Brener, CEO of Zeppelin, on Which Smart Contract Platform Will Win – Ep.026
Demian Brener, the cofounder and CEO of Zeppelin discusses a dilemma he’s seeing investors be concerned about: whether blockchains should be immutable forever or whether it should be possible to[…]
Live From the World Economic Forum: Breaking the Blockchain Hype – Ep.68
This is a live recording from a panel I moderated at the World Economic Forum Industry Strategy Meeting. The speakers included Shwetha Shetty Senior Director, Corporate Strategy Group, of SAP,[…]
Placeholder’s Joel Monegro on the Fat Protocols Thesis Today – Ep.65
Joel Monegro, partner at crypto VC firm Placeholder Ventures, describes how well his seminal blog post, “Fat Protocols,” is holding up, why he and his partner Chris Burniske opted to[…]
From the Oslo Freedom Forum: Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State – Ep.64
This recording is of Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State, a series of talks and a panel from the Oslo Freedom Forum put on by the Human Rights Foundation. In this[…]
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[…]
Live From Inforum at the Commonwealth Club: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: The Basics, With Kathryn Haun
Through Inforum at the Commonwealth Club, I recently moderated a sold-out discussion on the basics of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. My guest was Kathryn Haun, a former federal prosecutor who[…]
Bitfury on the Ways It Collaborates With Governments and Why It’s Partnered With a Public Company
Valery Vavilov and George Kikvadze of Bitcoin mining and blockchain software company Bitfury discuss why the firm has partnered with the publicly traded Hut 8, how it plans to branch[…]