In this conversation, conducted at the Oslo Freedom Forum, Vera Xavier, LocalBitcoins’ Community Manager and Elena Tonoyan, Chief Customer Success Officer, describe what the Helsinki-based company does, how it got[…]
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Blockchain CEO Peter Smith on Its Dark Pool, Crypto Lending Operation and Plans to Go Public
Peter Smith, the CEO of Blockchain, discusses how the company got started, why the company is focused on users owning their own private keys and how that is what enables[…]
Kin Sets Up $5 Million DefendCrypto.org to Take on the SEC
Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik and the founder of the Kin Foundation, and Patrick Gibbs, partner at Cooley, announce the formation of the $5 million DefendCrypto.org fund at Coinbase Custody to[…]
To the Moon and Back With Polychain’s Olaf Carlson-Wee
How Polychain is faring during the crypto winter, where we are in the tech cycle, whether he thinks Ethereum 2.0 will deliver and how he views the competition in the[…]
Blockstack’s Reg A+ Filing and the Future of Token Offerings
Zachary Fallon, a former SEC staffer and author of the Reg A JOBS Act crowdfunding rules and a principal at Blakemore Fallon, discusses Blockstack’s filing for a token offering under[…]
How Useful Is the SEC’s Guidance on ICOs?
Marco Santori, the president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, discusses this week’s big regulatory news — the SEC’s guidance on initial coin offerings and its first no-action letter. We[…]
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce: Come Talk to the SEC
In a fireside chat I moderated with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce held by the Blockchain Digital Asset Forum, in conjunction with the NYU Stern Executive MBA program, on March 26,[…]
How Uniswap Quickly Became One of the Most Popular Dexes
Hayden Adams, founder of the new decentralized exchange Uniswap, discusses how Uniswap differs from a traditional exchange based on order books, how market the contract determines the price of the[…]
When Is a Token Decentralized Enough to Not Be a Security? – Ep.056
The newly formed Blockchain Association recently released a post outlining what it calls the Hinman Token Standard based on a speech given last summer by Bill Hinman, director of the SEC’s[…]
Bloomberg’s Matt Leising on Why It Appears Tether Has Sufficient Dollar Reserves – Ep.052
Bloomberg reporter Matt Leising, who obtained bank statements from Tether’s bank, Noble Bank in Puerto Rico, found that for those months, the number of dollars in the bank matched the[…]