CoinDesk Reports

Kevin Worth discusses Consensus 2023, the state of the industry and how vital crypto media is to the future of money.

It’s day one of Consensus 2023. Who’s here? What are the most important conversations underway?

Kevin Worth and Jared Schwartz, executive producer of podcasts, assess the macro crypto environment and how it impacts discussions at the conference.

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Federal Reserve System Chief Innovation Officer Sunayna Tuteja, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Chief Information Officer Ghada Ijam, Federal Reserve Financial Services Chief Payments Exec Mark Gould and David Mills, associate director of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System discuss technological innovations at the U.S. central bank.

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The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. 

The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.

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This episode is sponsored by Roofstock onChain

I think it's fair to say that this year has been remarkable for crypto, as it is the ninth consecutive year that we honor people and institutions that have made a significant impact on crypto, whether for good or bad, by curating a list … CoinDesk’s Most Influential. 

On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren speak with Ben Schiller, managing editor of CoinDesk’s Consensus Magazine, about the much-anticipated release of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022. 

This year's MI project is different in that it includes a non-fungible token (NFT) drop of the artwork that illustrates the stories about each list member.

See also: Presenting CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022

Coindesk Got Colorful With the Most Influential 2022 NFT Collection

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This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine and our executive producer, Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Shepard.”

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The crypto world has been a little different every week after the fallout with FTX and the image of Sam Bankman-Fried versus the reality of what was actually happening has created distrust in the crypto industry.  So where do we begin to ask the right questions to balance the need for security with privacy in the future? 

On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren speak with Juan Zarate, senior adviser for Transnational Threats Project and Human Rights Initiative at CSIS, the Center for Strategic and International Studies; to discuss how crypto companies can better prepare themselves for financial risks and what is a “rogue state.”  

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This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine and our executive producer, Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Shepard.”

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Roofstock onChain allows you to instantly transfer ownership of real-world homes using standard NFT smart contracts. Buy and sell homes with one-click, pay with crypto, and access DeFi lending options. Find our web3 homes at onchain.roofstock.com or your favorite NFT marketplace.

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This is a story of how something can appear to be what it is not. 

It’s a tale of a jarring contrast between the image the world had of Sam Bankman-Fried before FTX’s meltdown pushed the crypto world into a nauseating tailspin and the reality of a wildly mismanaged multibillion-dollar empire with what Bankman-Fried’s appointed successor described as an “unprecedented” failure of accounting, oversight and discipline. 

Before Ian Allison’s Nov. 2 CoinDesk scoop on FTX sister company Alameda Research’s suspect balance sheet, Bankman-Fried was seen as a philanthropic, well-connected, celebrity-hobnobbing, marketing-savvy leader, a wunderkind who made crypto respectable. Two weeks later, he is viewed as a laughing stock, a suspected criminal, an irresponsible, wildly underqualified, selfish child who has destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands. Wow. What a difference two weeks make!

In this episode of Money Reimagined, host Michael Casey chats with two CoinDesk colleagues who’ve delved deeply into the SBF story: Deputy Managing Editor for Companies coverage Tracy Wang and Managing Editor for Global Policy and Regulation, Nikhilesh De. Together they dig into how the erstwhile FTX CEO could have misled the world to such a degree. 

They explore Bankman-Fried’s journey, how it begins with his adherence to the principles of effective altruism, a stated desire to get as rich as possible to do maximum good, and how it all seems to fall apart as FTX gets bigger. They discuss how his philanthropy, political donations, and marketing efforts hid the dark reality underneath and delve into what needs to happen, at the community level and in regulation, to protect people falling from such distortions in the future. 

See also:  Divisions in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Blur on His Trading Titan Alameda’s Balance Sheet

Sam Bankman-Fried's Frequent Commenting Draws Icy Response From FTX's Restructuring Chief

FTX Employees Worldwide Learned of Bankruptcy Along With the Public

The FTX Collapse Looks an Awful Lot Like Enron

The Long Arm of FTX

This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine and our executive producer, Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Shepard.”

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Roofstock onChain allows you to instantly transfer ownership of real-world homes using standard NFT smart contracts. Buy and sell homes with one-click, pay with crypto, and access DeFi lending options. Find our web3 homes at onchain.roofstock.com or your favorite NFT marketplace.

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Even before the pandemic, social scientists knew that the infinite social-media scroll and offline social isolation left humans more depressed. At the same time, faith in traditional party politics continues to wane.

Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin; Nathan Schneider, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Ellie Rennie, a professor, and researcher at RMIT University in Australia; and Tanisi Pooran, a partner at The Ready join David Morris, CoinDesk’s chief insights columnist, to discuss how DAOs can help address both challenges by offering a new model for tighter-knit digital communities and better incentive models for public goods.

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The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. 

The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.

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Yuta Takanashi, director for International Digital Strategy and Policy at the Financial Services Agency in Japan, Kristin Smith, executive director at the Blockchain Association, and Rebecca Rettig, general counsel at the Aave Cos., join CoinDesk’s U.S regulatory reporter Cheyenne Ligon to discuss the government role in the regulation of DeFi.

They discuss what exactly DeFi is and why it is important for the government to learn about the decentralized system and why people in the DeFi community should speak with policymakers before the government issues any regulations or imposes any rules. 

They go into detail about how certain events, like the collapse of Terra, have aided in the recent push for regulation and what they expect in the future. 

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The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. 

The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.

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According to Merriam-Webster, “pseudonymity” is the fact or state of being signed with a pseudonym, and a pseudonym is a fictitious name.

Tasheme Thomas, also known to some as Default Friend, is an internet historian who talks about the difference between pseudonymity and anonymity 

She breaks down the history of pseudonymity throughout different time periods, from the start of authors writing books under fake names, to its evolving to people existing in various digital spaces under a false or different identity. She breaks down why people have reverted back to this way of disguising themselves.

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The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. 

The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.

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Sheila Warren, CEO of the Crypto Council of Innovation and co-host of CoinDesk’s “Money Reimagined” podcast discusses her theory of the philanthropic industrial complex. She digs into whether the system of philanthropy as we know it is broken.

She gives information about her background in various positions, including blockchain team founder at the World Economic Forum, which helped her notice the ways in which the traditional philanthropic efforts and philanthropic efforts within the crypto spaces are similar. She also points out how crypto efforts are more genuinely human-forward, and how the model can change philanthropy altogether. 

While she provides detailed ways why crypto is important in the push to change the system, she also gives ways in which the community still has work to do. 

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The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. 

The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.

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Sean Farrell, the head of digital asset strategy at Fundstrat; Nicola White, the CEO of B2C2 USA; and Akshi Federici- Kraken, a ventures partner, join Lyllah Ledesma, CoinDesk markets reporter, to discuss who is investing in bitcoin during the dip, from different angles of the industry.

They speak about what they are watching to prepare for the slow crypto season, including consolidation, new non-fungible token projects and traditional finance entering the space. They end with their views on the long- and short-term trends for the market.

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The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. 

The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.

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