1 hr 56 min
109 - Edgar Weippl Doing Useful Things
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- Entrepreneurship
Edgar Weippl is a full professor for security and privacy at the University of Vienna. He’s also Research Director at SBA Research, an Austrian information security firm (sba-research.org).
Edgar explains cryptocurrency and the blockchain. Frankly, I knew almost nothing about blockchain and how cryptocurrency is developed and traded going into this discussion. And, I was skeptical of bitcoin and its viability. But after talking with Edgar, I became more convinced that cryptocurrency could one day satisfy government requirements for money laundering and other illicit practices that involve paper currency, which would pave the way for it becoming a universally accepted global currency.
This episode was recorded earlier in 2019 but we had to work out some audio issues before publishing it. We apologize for any remaining audio issues.
Edgar Weippl is a full professor for security and privacy at the University of Vienna. He’s also Research Director at SBA Research, an Austrian information security firm (sba-research.org).
Edgar explains cryptocurrency and the blockchain. Frankly, I knew almost nothing about blockchain and how cryptocurrency is developed and traded going into this discussion. And, I was skeptical of bitcoin and its viability. But after talking with Edgar, I became more convinced that cryptocurrency could one day satisfy government requirements for money laundering and other illicit practices that involve paper currency, which would pave the way for it becoming a universally accepted global currency.
This episode was recorded earlier in 2019 but we had to work out some audio issues before publishing it. We apologize for any remaining audio issues.
1 hr 56 min