Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, explains why he believes Bitcoin is revolutionary, has begun to cement its status as a digital version of gold and is becoming[…]
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Why Nothing Is More Viral Than a Store of Value
Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, and Yassine Elmandjra, ARK’s thematic analyst, discuss their investment strategy with disruptive innovation, and how blockchain technology, especially Bitcoin, plays a major[…]
Why China Aims to Replace Cash With the Digital Yuan
Martin Chorzempa, research fellow the Peterson Institute, and Dovey Wan, founding partner at Primitive Ventures, discuss China’s new blockchain push and the forthcoming DCEP. They cover how the blockchain initiative[…]
Christopher Giancarlo on the Craziness of Becoming ‘Crypto Dad’
Former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo talks about how his experience of the financial crisis piqued his interest in blockchain technology, why the CFTC thought the introduction of Bitcoin futures would[…]
Why the Digital Yuan Could One Day Be Seen as a Blunder
Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, explains why he believes China’s new pro-blockchain stance could turn out to be a blunder for the country and why[…]
Congressman Patrick McHenry: ‘Bitcoin Will Be of Enormous Value’
Congressman Patrick McHenry, or ‘Mr. Fintech’ to his peers in the House, is announcing the reintroduction of the Financial Services Innovation Act, a bill that would create what he calls[…]
Fed Economist on the Prospect of the USD Losing Global Reserve Status: ‘Who Cares?’
David Andolfatto, senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, gives his thoughts on Facebook’s Libra, including why regulatory issues will make it hard to compete with[…]
The IMF on How to Design Central Bank Digital Currencies
Dong He, deputy director of the monetary and capital markets department of the IMF, and Yan Liu, Assistant General Counsel at the legal department of the IMF, talk about central bank[…]
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[…]