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For Your Normie Friends: Answers to the Most Basic Crypto Questions
Episode 151
This fall, I had an idea to do a crypto show for my normie friends, and figured I’d release it over the holidays, when maybe my regular listeners would be with the very people in their lives who coul…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Why North Korea Is Interested in Cryptocurrency
Episode 150
Priscilla Moriuchi, director of strategic threat development at Recorded Future and non-resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, explains North Korean usage of the internet and how it has changed o…
Published on 6 years ago
Yeonmi Park on Why Doing Business With North Korea Is Like Buying a Ticket to a Concentration Camp
Episode 149
In light of the questions around whether or not Virgil Griffith's talk at a blockchain conference in Pyongyang could have helped everyday North Koreans, Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector, human ri…
Published on 6 years ago
How Synthetix Became the Second-Largest DeFi Platform
Episode 148
Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, talks about synthetic asset issuance platform, which enables people to create tokens that track the price of assets in traditional and crypto finance. We discuss t…
Published on 6 years ago
Why CoinMarketCap Launched Its Liquidity Metric
Episode 147
Carylyne Chan, chief strategy officer at CoinMarketCap, and Gerald Chee, head of research, discuss the history of CoinMarketCap, why the founder Brandon Chez initially focused on circulating supply t…
Published on 6 years ago
Why China Aims to Replace Cash With the Digital Yuan
Episode 146
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 block…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Christopher Giancarlo on the Craziness of Becoming 'Crypto Dad'
Episode 145
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 future…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
A Libra Co-Creator on How Facebook Will Make Money From Calibra
Episode 144
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 blowb…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Bitwise's Latest Plans to Get a Bitcoin ETF Approved
Episode 143
Hunter Horsley, cofounder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, and Matt Hougan, global head of research at Bitwise, describe their vision for Bitwise, its current funds and indices, as well as how it…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago
Congressman Patrick McHenry: 'Bitcoin Will Be of Enormous Value'
Episode 142
Congressman Patrick McHenry, or 'Mr. Fintech' to his peers in the House, is announcing the reintroduction of the Financial Services Innovation Act, a bill that would create what he calls "permanent b…
Published on 6 years, 1 month ago