August 26, 2021 / Unchained Daily / Laura Shin Daily Bits ✍️✍️✍️ David Marcus, head of Facebook Financial, told Bloomberg that Facebook[…]
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A Libra Co-Creator on How Facebook Will Make Money From Calibra
Christian Catalini, co-creator of Libra and chief economist at Calibra, explains why Facebook made the design choices it made for Libra, reveals whether the team was prepared for the regulatory[…]
Why It Would Be Good if Libra Rivaled the US Dollar
Michael Casey, chairman of the advisory board at CoinDesk, CEO of Streambed Media and a former Wall Street Journal reporter who covered global financial and economic affairs, discusses the regulatory response[…]
‘Bitcoin Billionaires’ Author Ben Mezrich on the Zuckerberg- Winklevoss Rivalry
Ben Mezrich, author of the Accidental Billionaires, which formed the basis of the movie The Social Network, and the author of the recently published Bitcoin Billionaires about the Winklevoss twins’[…]
Libra’s Dante Disparte on Why We Should Trust a Financial System Designed by Facebook
Dante Disparte, head of policy and communications for the Libra Association, describes the roles of the various entities that make up the Libra ecosystem and how he came to be[…]
Ethereal 2019: DeFi and Paths to Everyday Usage
At Ethereal, I spoke with Austin Griffiths, director of research at Gitcoin and founder of Burner Wallet, and Arjun Bhuptani, cofounder of Connext Network, about how they think about getting[…]
Blockstack On Getting Independence From Google, Facebook And Amazon
Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, the cofounders of Blockstack, on how their tools enable users to control their own data, why the internet should have universal usernames but no company[…]