Yale’s Bright Blockchain Future
Yale was not one of blockchain’s early adopters, but a shift within the school from both the administration and students that makes Yale’s blockchain future bright.
Crypto/Blockchain
Interviews with Yale Alums and Professors in the Crypto/Blockchain Communities
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My Experience at Bitcoin 2022
Last weekend, I was one of the almost 30,000 crypto-passionate people who descended onto Miami beach in anticipation of Bitcoin 2022, the largest, most influential cryptocurrency conference in the world. Touting influential speakers from a variety of different fields as well as innovative companies selling groundbreaking blockchain products and services, the conference took over Miami beach.
Blockchain in Crisis
Blockchain is primarily thought of as an emerging technology used to support outrageous tokens like Dogecoin and unfathomable sales of jpegs for millions of dollars as NFTs. What’s less well known is blockchain’s influential power of accessibility for communities in crisis as they battle oppression and violence.
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!”