Unconfirmed: MIT's Neha Narula on Why Building DeFi on Bitcoin Is a Great Idea - Ep.257
Unchained
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Neha Narula, director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, discusses Elon Musk’s appearance at ‘The B Word’ conference, along with a few current events in the Bitcoin world. Show highlights:
- her main takeaway from ‘The B Word’ conference
- why governance plays an essential role in Bitcoin’s block size arguments
- what Neha thinks of proof-of-work mining and Bitcon’s environmental concerns
- why Neha is skeptical of Dogecoin becoming a serious cryptocurrency
- why Jack Dorsey’s new Bitcoin platform business is a good idea
- what Bitcoin’s dip in hashrate due to China’s crackdown could affect network security going forward
- what questions Neha has about Bitcoin’s adoption in El Salvador
- why Neha thinks cryptocurrencies and CBDCs will coexist
- what DCI has planned for the rest of 2021
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Episode Links:
Neha Narula: https://twitter.com/neha)
MIT Media Lab: https://twitter.com/medialab)
Digital Currency Initiative
CBDC research
https://dci.mit.edu/cbdc-central-bank-digital-currency)
- Bitcoin network development
https://dci.mit.edu/cbdc-central-bank-digital-currency)
The B Word conference
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwx_7XAJ3p0)
Neha’s appearance:
https://www.thebword.org/c/track-3-Supporting-the-Developer-Ecosystem)
Miscellaneous
Square’s Bitcoin DeFi platform
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/16/square-is-building-a-decentralized-finance-business-for-bitcoin.html)
Bitcoin and El Salvador
Bitcoin hashrate drop
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/chinas-bitcoin-miner-exodus-.html)
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