Unconfirmed: MIT's Neha Narula on Why Building DeFi on Bitcoin Is a Great Idea - Ep.257
Jul 23, 2021•36 min•Ep. 257
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Episode description
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
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- https://dci.mit.edu/
- CBDC research
- Bitcoin network development
- The B Word conference
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- Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood conversation:
- Neha’s appearance:
- Miscellaneous
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- Square’s Bitcoin DeFi platform
- Bitcoin and El Salvador
- Bitcoin hashrate drop
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