Money Reimagined
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Money is changing...so where do we go from here? Through high-profile interviews and thought-provoking analysis, join Michael Casey and Sheila Warren for the Money Reimagined Podcast, as they explore the connections between finance, human culture and our increasingly digital lives.
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06/11/21 • 48 min
In the early days of blockchain technology, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) seemed like a far-out, unattainable idea. How could an organization, a company or a collective, ever manage itself without anyone in charge?
This episode is sponsored by PumaPay.io.
Then came the launch of The DAO, an Ethereum-based investment vehicle that subsequently collapsed due to a devastating hack, which in appropriating the acronym gave it a dirty name. It seemed real, functioning DAOs would forever be a pipe dream.
Yet, thanks largely to the success of decentralized finance (DeFi), DAOs are now here. They’re real.
In this week’s episode, we explore how developers and investors are working through the complex process of bridging the human and legal needs of the outside world with these complex, decentralized systems run by blockchains, automated smart contracts, “multisig” tokenized collateral agreements.
We were joined by two great guests, who helped us turn what might be otherwise seen as a nerdy topic into one of huge significance for the future of investing, innovation and economic development:
Rune Christensen, chief executive officer of the Maker Foundation, which founded MakerDAO, the first truly successful DeFi DAO on the Ethereum blockchain, which generates the algorithmic stablecoin, dai.
Ian Lee, managing director of IDEO Co-Lab Ventures and a co-founder of Syndicate, which enables groups of investors to fund DeFi projects and other ventures using DAOs and DAO-like structures.
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What the GameStop Saga Says About US Capitalism
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02/05/21 • 51 min
There’s a reason the Gamestop/WallStreetBets drama of the past two weeks got so much attention. It’s because it speaks forcefully to the inequities and systemic problems in both our financial markets and the internet economy and how they’ve shaped our politics and social tensions.
So, in true Money Reimagined form, we wanted to have a super high-level discussion about what all this means for the future of money and society. And for that we called on someone who is a master at drawing big-picture narratives around such issues: Demetri Kofinas, the host of the popular Hidden Forces podcast.
Demetri Kofinas is an insatiably curious media entrepreneur and financial expert. His mission is to make the connections that help you see the bigger picture, empowering you to make smarter investing decisions.
He also hosts the Hidden Forces podcast, where he gives his listeners an edge by using his critical thinking approach to challenge the consensus narratives structuring our world .
You can follow him on Twitter at @kofinas, check out his podcast at hiddenforces.io, and sign-up for more in depth content and analysis at Patreon.com/hiddenforces.
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06/24/22 • 44 min
This episode is sponsored by EY.
At a Consensus panel from Austin, Texas, "Money Reimagined" host Sheila Warren sits down with Natalya Thakur, co-founder and chief operating officer of Knox Networks; Diana Biggs, chief strategy officer of Valour; and Patrick Murck, president and chief legal officer of Transparent, to discuss the pros and cons of corporate control of digital money. The panel examines the meaning of “open money.” What does it mean to our society? What is closed now, and what do we recognize as being open? How we think about corporate influence and the challenges that will arise affects our ability to be inclusive of those often excluded from legacy systems and to be mindful of our imprint on our planet.
This episode was edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine. Our theme song is “Shepard.”
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09/09/22 • 33 min
This episode is sponsored by Circle and NEAR.
Think tanks are research institutions with an evidence-based approach. They have recently been called upon to provide data points for crypto to support informed policy decision-making.
On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren speak with
Josh Lipsky, the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center, where he manages the Atlantic Council's CBDC's tracker project, and John Soroushian the senior associate director for technology at the Bipartisan Policy Center, to discuss the big focus areas for crypto research agendas over the next year and predictions for the upcoming congressional session.
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This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with announcements by Adam B. Levine and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Shepard.”
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04/21/23 • 31 min
This episode is sponsored by EY and Brave.
On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” Michael Casey and Sheila Warren dive right into Gary Gensler's response to a question of law by Rep. Patrick McHenry during the House oversight hearing of Gensler’s Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this week. Sheila and Michael discuss partisanship, climate disclosures, and the role of the SEC.
A reshaping is taking place of what powers administrative agencies are allowed and the defined responsibilities of Congress and the courts.
In this episode Michael and Sheila discuss:
- Gensler's response to a question of law by Rep. Patrick McHenry
- Partisanship, climate disclosures and the role of the SEC
- The role of government
How crypto is getting politicized
- The role of regulators in the future
- Regulation by enforcement after the fact
- The second time in the crypto industry that unscrupulous actors are engaging in activities that hurt people
Pro-regulatory stance on regulation
- The progressive pro-regulator stance on this issue
- The shadow of the threat
- Responsible actors: good and bad
- No accommodation for innovation
- The sword of Damocles hanging over U.S. partners
- The CFTC action against Binance
Regulation and innovation
- Recognizing the pain that people felt in California
- The need for regulation and innovation
- Let open-source, permissionless innovation happen in a constructive way.
- Crypto is a proxy for other issues.
Inter-agency territoriality
- Inter-agency territorial conflict between SEC and CFTC
- Importance of context in these conversations
- Early warning sign with ICOs in 2017
- Regulation needs to differentiate between good and bad actors
Regulation of digital assets and licensing
- Bermuda's strict licensing requirements
- The massive erosion of trust after FTX
- Joint responsibility of regulators and the industry
- Crypto is not as partisan as it seems.
The problem with simplistic black-and-white solutions.
- Nuance always gets lost, and that's part of the problem.
See Also:
YouTube - Hearing Entitled: Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission
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11/20/20 • 48 min
Join Michael Casey & Sheila Warren as they speak with Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO of AZA Finance and Sebastian Serrano, CEO of Ripio for a discussion on the past, present and future of bitcoin and stablecoins in Africa and South America.
Bitcoin, Stablecoins and International Adoption
This week’s accompanying Money Reimagined podcast episode looks at the adoption of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in emerging markets, which over the past year has seen real signs of life. Is this finally the moment to realize one of the great hopes of this technology: to enable financial empowerment in developing countries where traditional finance is constrained?
To explore that question, my co-host Sheila Warren and I are joined by Elizabeth Rossiello, the founder and CEO of AZA, which has for seven years been developing digital payment solutions in African markets, and Sebastian Serrano, the founder and CEO of Ripio, which has been doing similar work in Latin America for more or less the same amount of time.
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Understanding China's Fast-Approaching Digital Yuan
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11/13/20 • 59 min
In the lore of digital disruption, Eastman Kodak Co.'s downfall is particularly momentous.
Kodak was once one of the world's most powerful companies. But it failed to act on digital cameras and online photo sharing, despite seeing the trends years before. (Kodak engineer Steve Sasson created the first digital camera in 1975.)
It's an apt story to remember now as the digital money revolution rolls ahead at a time of momentous political transition.
On this episode of CoinDesk's Money Reimagined, join Jen Zhu Scott, Executive Chairman of The Commons Project, Tanvi Ratna, CEO of Policy 4.0, along with hosts Michael J. Casey and Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum for this deep-dive into the potential of, and thought behind China's forthcoming DCEP, better known as the digital yuan.
With DCEP, China’s supply chains will become hyper-efficient, giving it a big advantage over other countries’ production sectors. And as those models extend into China’s international One Belt One Road initiative, foreign dependency on its production processes could grow, giving Beijing geopolitical clout.
Out of this, China will forge financial autonomy. Its digital currency will eventually be interoperable with other tokens and blockchains, allowing its businesses and their foreign trading partners to move money across borders without using dollars as an intermediary. They’ll bypass New York, in other words.
Solution: Open Money
This won’t happen overnight. But the effect on confidence in the U.S. could arise within the next four years.
How should Washington react? Christopher Giancarlo, former CFTC chairman and the founder of the Digital Dollar Foundation, is pushing for a digital dollar that would integrate constitutionally enshrined privacy protections, making it more appealing than the digital yuan, which many fear will become a Beijing surveillance tool.
But will people truly trust the U.S. not to monitor digital dollar transactions? After all, as Jennifer Zhu Scott, chair of the Commons Project, noted in this week’s Money Reimagined podcast, global finance is already subject to a comprehensive U.S.-led system of surveillance.
So, while we’re right to worry about a Chinese “panopticon” ingesting people’s identifying information, that’s not the data threat the U.S. can or should compete with. In the same podcast episode, Policy 4.0 CEO Tanvi Ratna said the bigger issue is how troves of DCEP-generated anonymized data will enable Chinese businesses to extract huge efficiencies and unlock innovation across decentralized economic systems.
There may be a way for the U.S. to compete here. But it will require a radical, disruptive solution. This is an episode you won't want to miss.
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What Ireland’s Ecosystem Success Story Means for Crypto
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08/06/21 • 54 min
In this week’s episode, we go to Ireland.
“Money Reimagined” co-hosts Sheila Warren and Michael J. Casey are joined by Michael O’Sullivan, the author of “The Levelling,” which describes the post-globalization era, and Lory Kehoe, director, Digital Assets & Blockchain at BNY Mellon and the founder of Blockchain Ireland.
This episode is sponsored by Unique One Network.
The topic, nominally, is the Biden Administration's proposal to harmonize international tax rates and Ireland’s resistance to that.
What does this have to do with crypto? A lot, it turns out.
A common concern among regulators of cryptocurrencies is that a lack of international harmony across jurisdictions creates “regulatory arbitrage” for developers of what is a global, borderless 24/7 technology and market.
The idea, flagged by Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler in his impactful speech this week, is that if there’s no consistency in rules around the world, crypto businesses will pick and choose where they base their operations and tend toward the most lax regulatory regime. Regulators like Gensler fear this fosters a race to the bottom, opening the door for criminals and the worst actors to find their way in.
Makes sense, right?
But there’s another side to the story about the policy variance around the world. That is, it allows smaller countries to find opportunities they might not otherwise have to attract international investors and to build their own vibrant domestic economies on the back of that.
As we learn from Sullivan and Kehoe, Ireland’s use of competitively low corporate tax rates had a sweeping impact on the Irish economy that went far beyond multinationals setting up headquarters there. It was the spark that generated a vibrant ecosystem of innovation, a holistic growth machine that continues to underpin Ireland’s decades-long economic expansion.
With many in Ireland looking to create a crypto-friendly regulatory framework to encourage innovation in digital assets and fintech, that experience poses real questions about how far governments should go toward harmonizing their rules.
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09/06/23 • 27 min
Revolutionizing finance by leveraging the inevitability of blockchain technology.
In today's episode of "Money Reimagined," Michael Casey and Sheila Warren provide an insightful analysis of the groundbreaking Swift/Chainlink tokenization experiment, which effectively facilitated cross-blockchain value transfer. They interpret important questions such as: What are the uses of blockchain technology? How to leverage the inevitability of blockchain technology? And what does this all mean for Bitcoin and its future?
Links mentioned in the show :
Swift, Chainlink Tokenization Experiment Successfully Transfers Value Across Multiple Blockchains
LSE Group Plans to Offer Blockchain-Powered Market for Traditional Assets: Report
Singapore's New President, a Former Central Bank Chairman, Has Called Crypto 'Slightly Crazy'
Australia Senate Committee Rejects Crypto Bill From Opposition Senator Andrew Bragg
The Trillion Dollar Crypto Opportunity: Real World Asset Tokenization
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Could Crypto Draw Insights from Past Bull Market Errors to Forge an Enduring Legacy?
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01/17/24 • 39 min
A live recording at The Hub by Casper Labs during the WEF's Annual Meeting at Davos 2024.
This week on "Money Reimagined," hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are in Davos, Switzerland for Davos 2024. They engage in a live podcast session featuring Yat Siu , a seasoned veteran technology entrepreneur/investor and the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. Joining them is Faryar Shirzad, former staff of the National Security Council at the White House and currently the Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase.
The conversation explores the lessons that the crypto industry can learn from past bull market mistakes and the importance of building a lasting legacy. Delving into the crypto industry's journey they dissect the ramifications of regulatory uncertainty and advocate for a steadfast federal framework. The conversation extends to emphasize the transformative potential of crypto intermediation and the imperative of showcasing its advantages to the broader audience. The exploration spans diverse realms, from gaming and education to payments, as strategic avenues to invite more individuals into the Web3 sphere.
Takeaways:
The crypto industry should learn from past bull market mistakes to build a lasting legacy.
Regulatory uncertainty has had a significant impact on the industry, but progress is being made in terms of developing a consistent federal framework.
Crypto intermediation, particularly in terms of custody and exchange services, has been a major focus of regulatory attention.
Demonstrating the benefits of crypto, such as property rights and financial inclusion, is crucial in winning over the general public.
Use cases in gaming, education, and payments can help bring more people into the Web3 space.
Links |
Yat Siu: The Metaverse Man Gets Real
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How many episodes does Money Reimagined have?
Money Reimagined currently has 178 episodes available.
What topics does Money Reimagined cover?
The podcast is about News, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Defi, Discussion, Business News, Ethereum, Money, Tech News, Crypto, Investment, Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on Money Reimagined?
The episode title 'Promising for Issuers, Concerning for Regulators: Stablecoins' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Money Reimagined?
The average episode length on Money Reimagined is 41 minutes.
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Episodes of Money Reimagined are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of Money Reimagined was released on Sep 25, 2020.
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