Ep 27 - Angela Walch - Difficult Definitions and the Veil of Decentralization

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-seventh episode features Angela Walch. Angela is a Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law. Her research focuses on money and the law, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, and financial stability. She is a self-described skeptic of blockchain technology, and she's considered one of the leading legal experts on many of the complexities being created by decentralized technologies. Angela has presented her work at Harvard Law School, Stanford University, the Federal Reserve, and the London School of Economics, among others. On this episode Angela talks about the difficulty in defining terms like "decentralization" and "trustless", who makes the ultimate determination on whether something is decentralized, what are the weaknesses she sees in blockchain governance, and how despite her overall skepticism, some of these new technologies might actually hold real promise. Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future? ---- Relevant links: More about Angela: www.angelawalch.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/angela_walch Deconstructing Decentralization: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3326244 Enigma: www.enigma.co 
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