Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi and Tom Schmidt chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Jill Gunter, the[…]
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Is TRM Labs Blocking Addresses From DeFi Protocols? Ari Redbord Says No – Ep.387
Ari Redbord, Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, talks about the sanctions on Tornado Cash, and the role of blockchain analytics tools in crypto. Show highlights: Ari’s[…]
The Chopping Block: Did OFAC Overstep by Sanctioning Tornado Cash? – Ep. 386
Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Laura[…]
Tornado Cash Sanctioned. Did the Government Overstep Its Bounds? – Ep. 384
Jerry Brito, executive director of Coin Center, talks about Tornado Cash, why it was sanctioned, and what this means for privacy in crypto. Show highlights: what Blender.io is and how[…]
Tor Bair of Secret on Why Private Smart Contracts Are Important
Secret Network is a privacy-first, permissionless layer 1 blockchain built for computational privacy. Tor Bair, founder of Secret Foundation, a developer of Secret Network, discusses what makes Secret Network unique,[…]
Laura’s New Year’s 2021 AMA: Your Questions About Privacy, the STABLE Act, Diem and More
For the holidays, I’m doing two AMAs. In the second of two, I cover: privacy blockchains my thoughts on the STABLE Act whether or not Facebook’s Diem will have a[…]
After Years of Secret Work, Decred Adds a New Feature: Privacy
Jonathan Zeppettini, international ops lead and chief evangelist for Decred, aka “Decred Jesus,” announces the launch of the coin’s privacy feature. He first describes how Decred came out of some[…]
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[…]
Could Social Media Discontent Help the Decentralized Web?
At the Subzero conference in Berlin, Ashley Tyson, the cofounder of the Web 3 Foundation, talks about how it plans to support the Polkadot protocol, plus bring together protocols to[…]