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[…]
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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’[…]
Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on the 3 Reasons Bitcoin Matters
In recent years, the Human Rights Foundation and Alex Gladstein, its chief strategy officer, have become forces in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community. In this episode, he discusses why Bitcoin[…]
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[…]