How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers? Join Azeem Azhar, curator of the Exponential View newsletter, in deep conversation with the world's leading thinkers and practitioners exploring these and other important questions. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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episode 23: Bitcoin and the Future of Decentralized Finance
Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the potential and politics of cryptocurrencies: from the ideological origins of Bitcoin to the new wave of decentralized financial products that could disrupt traditional finance.
They also discuss:
- Why the values of the Cypherpunk community are enshrined in Bitcoin’s design.
- How the Decentralized Finance movement is re-imagining existing products on blockchain networks.
- If Bitcoin will ever break out of its niche to become a widely used currency.
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Further resources:
- “Is the financial establishment coming round to bitcoin?” (The Economist, 2021)
- “Get ready for self-driving banks” (Financial Times, 2021)
- “The Redecentralized Web” (Exponential View podcast, 2020)
- “Politics, Power & Protocols” (Meltem Demirors, CoinShares 2019)