This episode is the first in a series, Why Bitcoin Now, that takes a deeper dive into Bitcoin and the history of money in the macroeconomic environment of the coronavirus.[…]
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Christopher Giancarlo: Why the US Needs to Have a Digital Dollar
At an event at the NYU Stern School of Business, Christopher Giancarlo, former CFTC Chairman and co-founder of the Digital Dollar Foundation, discusses his proposal for a US central bank[…]

Listen to CZ Compare Binance to Bitcoin
Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, cofounder and CEO of Binance, and I kicked off the Ethereal Virtual Summit with a fun fireside chat! He talked about Binance’s current operations, its plans[…]

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[…]

Dragonfly Capital on Why Ethereum Is So Far in the Lead
Alex Pack, founding partner of Dragonfly Capital, and Haseeb Qureshi, Dragonfly managing partner, talk about why Dragonfly has a global focus, how they choose investments, and why they try to[…]

Meltem Demirors on the First Decade of the Existence of Bitcoin
Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer of Coinshares, talks about how the emergence of Bitcoin fits within the larger technological and financial shifts of the last decade, how crypto can integrate[…]

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[…]

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[…]