Tag: Cryptocurrency
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2025: The Year in Review
The Year the Future Became the Default Setting If 2024 was the year we all started talking to machines, 2025 was the year they, as agents, started talking back. More importantly, my agents kindly worked for me. Looking back at the last twelve months from my desk today, I feel grateful for another year of…
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Blockchain Association Policy Summit: So It Begins – Big Banks’ War on Crypto
Blockchain Association Policy Summit 2025, Washington, DC: The title of this session could’ve been lifted straight from a sci‑fi screenplay: “So It Begins: Big Banks’ War on Crypto.” But as moderator Lindsay Fraser, Chief Policy Officer at the Blockchain Association, reminded the audience, this was no fiction. Traditional financial institutions, fortified by regulatory allies and legacy infrastructure, are…
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Commissioner Hester Peirce: Update on the SEC Crypto Task Force
Blockchain Association Policy Summit 2025, Washington, DC: Commissioner Hester Peirce of the SEC was interviewed by moderator Marta Belcher of Filecoin. This conversation was framed around a clear break from “regulation by enforcement” toward a more rules‑first, experimentation‑friendly approach to digital assets. Peirce describes the SEC’s new Crypto Task Force as an explicit attempt to…
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Commissioner Paul Atkins: A View from the SEC
Blockchain Association Policy Summit 2025, Washington, DC: When Miles Jennings, Crypto Head of Policy and General Counsel at a16z crypto, sat down with former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins for the session “A View from the SEC”, the room was charged with a mix of cautious optimism and anticipation. Over the past year, digital asset regulation in…
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Digital Gold Rush: Tokenizing the Oldest Asset on Earth with Curt Hopkins
Recently, gold hit multiple all-time highs in its valuation. Gold prices have risen recently due to a combination of factors, including geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and strong demand from central banks and individual investors. But now…Gold has a new vehicle for people onboard it into their portfolios, Blockchain. Today I am very curious to hear…
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Inside Tezos: The Mathematician Rewriting Blockchain’s Rules with Arthur Breitman
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a mathematician, robo-engineer, and blockchain pioneer walk into a room, today’s guest is the punchline. Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, brings a background spanning competitive coding, Wall Street, and even self-driving cars to the world of blockchain innovation. We’ll dig into how Arthur’s science chops helped architect Tezos, a…
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Cardano and the Evolution of Trust in Web3 Finance with Frederik Gregaard
Cardano is the 10th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, sitting around 22.5 Billion dollars. That’s quite a number given its ICO raised approximately $62 million from 2015-2017 at a price of $0.0024. Cardano is part of what I call the old guard of cryptocurrencies launched after Ethereum, by Charles Hoskinson, which launched the era of…
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Crypto at Checkout – Living on Crypto – Real World Payments with April Pollock
Today we’re diving into one of the most practical use cases for crypto, actually spending it. For years people have joked, “Sure, you can buy Bitcoin, but can you buy a coffee with it?” Well, Bitrefill has been answering that question with a resounding yes since 2014. Operating in over 180 countries and partnering with countless major…
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Agentic AI: The Next Frontier in Blockchain and Crypto
This is a primer for a presentation I will be giving in Davos. As we venture into 2025, a new technological paradigm is emerging at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain: Agentic AI. This groundbreaking development promises to revolutionize how we interact with digital systems, particularly in the realm of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance.…
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The Potential of Predictive Markets: A Revolution with Polymarket
Predictive markets have long fascinated economists, investors, and curious minds alike. I have been following and investigating them for almost the last ten years. The first such market was called Augur. So, what are these predictive markets and why will they become increasingly important? Predictive markets offer a window into the future, harnessing collective intelligence…
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The Metaverse is coming: Is the legal market prepared?
Are you ready for the Metaverse? Probably not, but please bear with me, because the legal implications will be enormous. Open your creative mind first, and at the very end apply your critical thinking legal intellect. Here we go. Originally published on Thomson Reuters Institute. Imagine, if you will, a world resembling our physical one,…
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Law Firm and Corporate Cybersecruity Presentation – UMB
By Joseph Raczynski Recorded at the University of Maryland, Baltimore during the “Cybersecruity and You” morning session. Discussed is the current landscape of cybersecurity at law firms and corporations, the primary issues these organizations are finding and general awareness of what is happening.