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Think a DAO Will Automate Things? Think Again
Episode 141
Mariano Conti, the head of smart contracts for MakerDAO and creator of SelloutDAO, and Peter Pan, the summoner for Metacartel DAO, discuss all things DAOs, including how Peter started Metacartel DAO …
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Fed Economist on the Prospect of the USD Losing Global Reserve Status: 'Who Cares?'
Episode 140
David Andolfatto, senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, gives his thoughts on Facebook's Libra, including why regulatory issues will make it hard to compete with the US doll…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Crypto in China: What It Really Looks Like
Episode 139
Emily Parker, cofounder of Longhash, describes what the company, which has an Asia-focused incubator and data media site does, how she ended up launching an Asia-focused company, why she’s seeing US …
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Spencer Bogart on the $20 Trillion in Store-of-Value Assets
Episode 138
Spencer Bogart, general partner at Blockchain Capital, the first VC firm to tokenize one of its funds, talks about how well offering tokenized shares has worked out, why it didn't do so for the follo…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
Olga Feldmeier on Why Switzerland Has Welcomed Crypto
Episode 137
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 h…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Why LocalBitcoins Stopped Cash Trades and Has a New CEO
Episode 136
Sebastian Sonntag, the new CEO of LocalBitcoins, and Mika Impola, software developer at LocalBitcoins, explain why the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading company has a new CEO, why it stopped cash trades a…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
How Aragon Hopes to Improve on Democracy
Episode 135
Luis Cuende, the CEO of Aragon One, describes the Aragon Network, how it aims to create new systems better for human coordination and the roles of the various parts of the ecosystem, such as Aragon O…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
After Years of Secret Work, Decred Adds a New Feature: Privacy
Episode 134
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 dev…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
Sandra Ro: Why Crypto-Friendly Laws Are Coming in the US
Episode 133
Sandra Ro, the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council and former head of digitization at CME, explains what the GBBC does, how it chooses partners, and what level of involvement they have with…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
The IMF on How to Design Central Bank Digital Currencies
Episode 132
Dong He, deputy director of the monetary and capital markets department of the IMF, and Yan Liu, Assistant General Counsel at the legal department of the IMF, talk about central bank digital currenci…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago