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[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
Nick Tomaino on Why He Is Skeptical Libra Will Be Significant
Nick Tomaino, general partner of 1confirmation, discusses his firm’s second fund of $45 million, announced this week, how prospective LPs have changed from 2017 to 2019, and what types of[…]
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[…]
How Cryptocurrencies Could Threaten the State
Nic Carter, partner at Castle Island Ventures, discusses the ways in which cryptocurrencies could weaken the state, how they’re already providing an alternative to central bank currencies for people in[…]
Pantera Capital: How Bitcoin Could Reach $356,000 in a Few Years
Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, and Joey Krug, co-chief investment officer of Pantera and founder of Augur, discuss where we are in the development cycle of blockchain[…]
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[…]
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’[…]