An Interview with Luigi Zingales, Director of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
“When I grew up, for instance, I learned never to send a check in the mail because it would be stolen and cashed by someone else.”
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Austin Mills (YC 07), Chair of Morris, Manning & Martin’s Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Group
“It’s an awkward position when your clients think in terms of, ‘Yeah, there are laws that cover this area, but who will the SEC enforce them against?'”
Jack Shaw (YC 71), Co-founder of the American Blockchain Council
“You can certainly compare Satoshi to other key leaders in tech, going back to John McCarthy, who coined the notion of ‘artificial intelligence’ in the ‘50s.”
Jennifer Zhu Scott (Yale Executive Leadership Program 13), Founder and Principal at Radian Partners
“PBOC, China’s Central Bank has collected the most patents related to blockchain in the world. Sure enough, PBOC recently confirmed that it will issue digital RMB soon.”
Ian Panchèvre (YC 15), Ex-PM of Intuit’s Blockchain R&D Initiative (Part 2)
“Bitcoin did peak in late 2017, early 2018– and it has since contracted. If this were really the future of digital commerce, the future of money, the future of web infrastructure– you wouldn’t expect it to take a huge step backwards. But it did, and that’s because it’s mostly hype-driven.”
Ian Panchèvre (YC 15), Ex-PM of Intuit’s Blockchain R&D Initiative (Part I)
“How many times have you been using an app and honestly thought to yourself, “Ah f***, if only this were decentralized it would liberate me as a person!”
Adam Perlaky (Yale SOM 20), Gold Portfolio Manager
“Bitcoin is so volatile that it’s actually moving more than the volatility of the Volatility Index itself.”
Will Janensch (YC 95), Founder and CEO of TruSet
“I would go to these highly technical meetups, take notes, and do extensive research afterwards. I didn’t understand 90 percent of what people were saying, but I wanted to grasp complex topics like “elliptic-curve cryptography” nevertheless.”