Electric Capital on the Coins Punching Below Their Weight - Ep.86
Maria Shen, head of data science at Electric Capital, dives into the details of the firm's report on crypto developer activity, which analyzed 27,000 code repositories to find that a recent decrease i...
16 Aug 201925min
Kik's Surprising Move in Its Lawsuit With the SEC - Ep.85
Rebecca Rettig, partner at FisherBroyles, talks about Kik's answer this week to the SEC's complaint, why she predicted they would make this move as opposed to filing a motion to dismiss as many had ex...
9 Aug 201925min
The IRS Is Cracking Down on Crypto Taxes: What You Need to Know - Ep.84
Chandan Lohda, the cofounder and CEO of CoinTracker, talks about the 10,000 letters the IRS sent to cryptocurrency holders last week, what kinds of letters were sent, what recipients should do dependi...
2 Aug 201927min
Jeremy Allaire on Why the US Government Needs a New Category for Digital Assets - Ep.83
Jeremy Allaire, cofounder and CEO of Circle, explains why the company has opened a new subsidiary in Bermuda, obtained a full Digital Assets Business Act license there and how it plans to create separ...
26 Juli 201925min
Why the Congressional Hearings on Facebook's Libra Were Good for Bitcoin - Ep.82
Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, explains the significance of all the governmental activity around crypto in the last week -- the President's tweets, the Treasury Secretary'...
19 Juli 201944min
Why Crypto Regulation Is Surprisingly Cypherpunk - Ep.81
Lawson Baker, head of operations and general counsel at TokenSoft (disclosure: a previous sponsor of the podcast), explains the significance of this week's SEC statement on broker-dealer custody if di...
12 Juli 201929min
Why It Would Be Good if Libra Rivaled the US Dollar - Ep.80
Michael Casey, chairman of the advisory board at CoinDesk, CEO of Streambed Media and a former Wall Street Journal reporter who covered global financial and economic affairs, discusses the regulatory ...
5 Juli 201931min
'Bitcoin Billionaires' Author Ben Mezrich on the Zuckerberg- Winklevoss Rivalry - Ep.079
Ben Mezrich, author of the Accidental Billionaires, which formed the basis of the movie The Social Network, and the author of the recently published Bitcoin Billionaires about the Winklevoss twins' ri...
28 Juni 201928min
