Founder of NuCypher and The Threshold Network on Privacy Tokens, BTC > ETH bridge and more $NU $T

Today we have with us MacLane Wilkison - the co-founder and CEO of NuCypher, a data privacy layer for blockchain and decentralized applications. He is also a major contributor to Threshold Network. He is a software engineer and former tech, media, and telecommunications investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Questions:

What was your first investment outside of BTC and ETH?

What do you think is currently the most underrated crypto project?

Who in the crypto industry do you respect most?

How much of your portfolio is staked?

What is an activity you do to relax from the wild crypto markets?

What led to NuCypher and Keep Network merging?

What was the biggest challenge to do that?

What happens to the NU and KEEP contracts and tokens, once the merge has been fully completed?

tBTC Bridge v2 will be the first truly decentralized way of bridging BTC to Ethereum. How does this work in detail? What are the risks?

How much BTC do you expect to be bridged? What are your targets and how are you gonna achieve that?

What do you think is the future of BTC on Ethereum? Just as collateral or do you see other use-cases?

What are further use-cases for the Threshold network after tBTC bridge?

What is the biggest (most common) problem with current multi-chain bridges?

What are the differences in staking economics between NuCypher and Threshold network?

How does running a node work in detail? Who can participate? Is there any delegation?

How does a world look like in which Threshold network is ultra successful?

What are the biggest challenges for the Threshold network on the road to full success?

What is the future for privacy tokens such as Zcash, Monero, etc?

What is the relation between transactional privacy token and networks like And what role does Threshold play in the future of privacy tokens?

Applications going live on The Threshold Network soon, proxy re-encryption week or two. Stakers will be able to run nodes on the threshold network. More applications in the coming months.

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