Interviews with Yale Alums and Professors in the Crypto/Blockchain Communities
“The issue of institutional custody is being solved by a number of companies, including Fidelity, which is going to come out with its institutional custody services in the near future.”
“If you’re an Uphold participant in Venezuela, it’s probably not nice to own crypto. It’s survival.”
“I think the classic ways people look at the technology’s usefulness and adaptions are unnecessarily limited by conventions and orthodoxy.”
“It’s new, it’s emerging, it’s changing, and because of that, there’s so much opportunity to not only create and grow in the space, but actually to strategize, to influence its future development, and to become an expert in a very short period of time.”
“I really understand how to market the technology and how to translate technical details into something the layman can understand.”
“This is a nascent technology and still a very young industry. Let’s continue to learn and explore its potential, and make a positive impact together.”
“Maybe that doesn’t mean much in societies like the United States or Western Europe, where we have a system of the rule of law, of accountability, of relatively trustworthy institutions, but in most of the world, people don’t know what a trustworthy institution is. They prize what we take for granted.”
“The idea of having better accounting has been in existence for many years, and now the technology makes that possible.”
