Connecting the dots with Sebastian Cochinescu

"Fake news and disinformation pose a threat to democracy. They pose a threat to the functioning of democratic institutions, which is something we've seen already. But more more serious than that, they attack the very essence of democracy. It is a very paradoxical thing, if I may put it that way."
An interesting conversation with His Excellency Mr. Doru Costea - Romanian Ambassador to China about geopolitics and technology, fake news, digital diplomacy and blockchain.

"So the point is that we have for the first time in the history of the humanity a system of storing and transferring value that cannot be controlled by anyone and that is very transparent, very easy to use, very easy to understand once you get it and that it's free. Basically the technology is free because if you look a little bit back, the first implementation of of blockchain was Bitcoin."
A great discussion with Antonio Éram - Founder and CEO @ Netopia Payments about blockchain, Bitcoin and sound money.

"At this stage, the conventional war is what we see. Conventional media as well. But what we have to handle now are the consequences of this situation. So as we know, the economy is at stake, but also the social cohesion in Europe. And it is true that it's a communication war, it's an opinion war."
An interesting conversation with Her Excellency Ms. Laurence Auer - French Ambassador to Romania about geopolitics, blockchain, digital diplomacy and NFTs.

"A lot of ethical, if you will, or moral questions are being asked already. Most American companies promote American values and protect democracy, and things like freedom of speech. But for example in countries like Malaysia Facebook had a major problem with freedom of speech, because the First Amendment does not apply there."
A relaxed talk about startups, macro economics, blockchain, tech diplomacy, late stage investing and San Francisco with Alex Chitea - Managing Partner @ Funston Capital.

"...a lot of our systems are fundamentally based on the threat of violence. I'm not saying that people will not do horrible things, but now we have a system that is built on the idea of violence. Money, taxes, regulations, inflation, all of these things are imposed on you.
There's no contract, you have no saying in it, you cannot opt out. So if you disagree, there's always the threat of being thrown in jail or bad things happening to you.
So a system that is based on the threat of violence creates major issues in our society and blockchain at least offers a way out."
A great talk with Vladimir Oane - founder and CEO @ Deepstash - about libertarianism, crypto, history, a better society and blockchain.