Robert-Jan Den Haan, a contributor to the Block who has been researching the Bitfinex/Tether situation for over a year, talks about how Bitfinex found itself without access to $850 million[…]
Tag: stablecoins
Charlie Lee on How Litecoin Can Be Truly Successful
Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin and aka SatoshiLite, discusses how he came to launch Litecoin, how the “fair” launch may have helped its success, why he didn’t work on[…]
Rune Christensen of MakerDAO Part 2: How Dai Stayed at $1 While ETH Crashed From $1,400 to $85
Rune Christensen, CEO and cofounder of MakerDAO, explains how multicollateral Dai will work, what happens if one type of collateral fails, and what happens when someone’s collateralized debt position with[…]
Rune Christensen of MakerDAO Part 1: How to Keep a Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoin Afloat
Rune Christensen, CEO and cofounder of MakerDAO, explains the intricacies of the MakerDAO system, which includes the stablecoin Dai, which is pegged to $1, backed by collateral, and whose governance[…]
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss on Being the ‘Fastest Tortoise in the Race’
Gemini’s Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who serve as chief executive and president, respectively, discuss their new ad campaign — what they mean when they say crypto needs rules, why they[…]
Rune Christensen of MakerDao on Its $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz – Ep.039
Rune Christensen, founder and CEO of MakerDao, explains what Andreessen Horowitz’s $15 million investment in its Maker token means for the ecosystem and why they chose to work with a16z[…]
CoinList’s Andy Bromberg on the One Big Regulatory Issue Facing Crypto – Ep.030
CoinList founder and president Andy Bromberg talks about why the ICO services firm has worked with only five out of 2,500 token projects, how tokenomic models are changing to ensure[…]
Circle’s Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville on Why Crypto Will Be Bigger Than the Web – Ep.71
Jeremy Allaire, cofounder and CEO of Circle, and Sean Neville, cofounder and president, discuss why they think the internet of value will be even bigger than the internet of information[…]
Joey Krug on How to Create a Regular Cryptocurrency – Ep.022
Joey Krug, cofounder of Augur and chief investment officer at Pantera Capital, talks about the upcoming Augur launch, and why we haven’t yet seen a regular, non-deflationary, non-stablecoin cryptocurrency —[…]
Mike Novogratz on Why Incumbents Are Still Well Positioned to Participate in Crypto Finance
Mike Novogratz, the founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital Capital Management, talks about the recently announced Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index, why it’s limited to just 12 cryptos, how traditional financial[…]