29 min

A Once-a-Century Event Immutable

    • Entrepreneurship

Chris Giancarlo is the former Chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the author of an important new book called Crypto Dad: The Fight for the Future of Money. As Washington’s chief regulator who oversaw the emergence of cryptocurrencies, Chris has seen up close how important it is to encode democratic values and economic privacy into digital money. Chris and I discuss the history of money, the Internet of Value, the risks of crypto censorship and suppression, and whether free enterprise can be cool again.

Chris Giancarlo is the former Chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the author of an important new book called Crypto Dad: The Fight for the Future of Money. As Washington’s chief regulator who oversaw the emergence of cryptocurrencies, Chris has seen up close how important it is to encode democratic values and economic privacy into digital money. Chris and I discuss the history of money, the Internet of Value, the risks of crypto censorship and suppression, and whether free enterprise can be cool again.

29 min