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:

• “Is the financial establishment coming round to bitcoin?” (The Economist, 2021)
• “Get ready for self-driving banks” (Financial Times, 2021)
• “The Redecentralized Web” (Exponential View podcast, 2020)
• “Politics, Power & Protocols” (Meltem Demirors, CoinShares 2019)

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