This episode features an email interview with Kuma, the pseudonymous administrator of HKmap.live, a site showing a real-time crowd-sourced map of protests in Hong Kong, which Kuma believes is the first[…]
Tag: crypto
How Bitcoin Led to the Demise of the Largest Child Porn Site
Jonathan Levin, the cofounder and chief strategy officer of Chainalysis, describes how the blockchain analytics firm helped the IRS identify the administrator of the largest child porn website in the[…]
Crypto in China: What It Really Looks Like
Emily Parker, cofounder of Longhash, describes what the company, which has an Asia-focused incubator and data media site does, how she ended up launching an Asia-focused company, why she’s seeing[…]
Spencer Bogart on the $20 Trillion in Store-of-Value Assets
Spencer Bogart, general partner at Blockchain Capital, the first VC firm to tokenize one of its funds, talks about how well offering tokenized shares has worked out, why it didn’t[…]
Olga Feldmeier on Why Switzerland Has Welcomed Crypto
Olga Feldmeier, CEO of SmartValor, describes how her upbringing in Ukraine when it was undergoing 10,000% and 5,000% annual inflation helped her understand the potential in Bitcoin years later, and[…]
Sandra Ro: Why Crypto-Friendly Laws Are Coming in the US
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[…]
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[…]