Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Bitcoin and the Future of Decentralized Finance

Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the potential and politics of cryptocurrencies: from the ideological origins of Bitcoin to the new wave of decentralized financial products that could disrupt traditional finance.
They also discuss:

Why the values of the Cypherpunk community are enshrined in Bitcoin’s design.
How the Decentralized Finance movement is re-imagining existing products on blockchain networks.
If Bitcoin will ever break out of its niche to become a widely used currency.

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Further resources:

“<a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/01/07/is-the-financial-establishment-coming-round-to-bitcoin" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Is the financial establishment coming round to bitcoin?</a>” (The Economist, 2021)
“<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c1caca5b-01f7-41be-85a4-3ecb883f2417" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get ready for self-driving banks</a>” (Financial Times, 2021)
“<a href="https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/03/the-decentralized-internet" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Redecentralized Web</a>” (Exponential View podcast, 2020)
“<a href="https://coinshares.com/insights/politics-power-protocols" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Politics, Power &amp; Protocols</a>” (Meltem Demirors, CoinShares 2019)

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