Sandra Ro, the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council and former head of digitization at CME, explains what the GBBC does, how it chooses partners, and what level of[…]
Tag: crypto
Electric Capital on the Coins Punching Below Their Weight
Maria Shen, head of data science at Electric Capital, dives into the details of the firm’s report on crypto developer activity, which analyzed 27,000 code repositories to find that a[…]
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[…]
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[…]
How to Keep Your Crypto From Being Stolen Via Your Phone
Rich Sanders, cofounder and chief security officer of CipherBlade, and Harry Denley, director of security of MyCrypto.com, discuss the phone porting phenomenon: who’s behind these thefts, how they perpetrate them, who[…]
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[…]
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[…]
How Asia’s Trading Culture Results in a Vastly Different Crypto Scene
Luis Buenaventura, founder of Bloom Solutions, and Leo Weese, president of Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong, discuss the crypto scene in Asia — how it differs from that of the[…]
Blockchain CEO Peter Smith on Its Dark Pool, Crypto Lending Operation and Plans to Go Public
Peter Smith, the CEO of Blockchain, discusses how the company got started, why the company is focused on users owning their own private keys and how that is what enables[…]