Year in Review 2019

Lex Sokolin, global fintech co-head at ConsenSys
We Made No Progress, Other Than All the Progress We Made
Billions have gone into making the distribution of financial products easier. Nothing real has changed in the making of financial instruments, until now, says ConsenSys' Lex S...
Lex Sokolin, global fintech co-head at ConsenSys

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This Year's Top 10 Crypto Narratives
From “The Revolution Needs Rules” to “Unbank the Banked,” 2019 was full of resonant phrases. Selkis, CEO of Messari, makes sense of them.
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Sheila Warren High Res
Blockchain Projects Work Better When Everyone Collaborates
To reach its potential, blockchain needs to support inclusion and avoid power consolidation, says the head of blockchain at the World Economic Forum.
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Roneil Rumburg, Audius CEO
Musicians Want to Break Free of Big Tech
Decentralized platforms are the best means to solve equity problems in creative industries, says Roneil Rumburg, co-founder and CEO of Audius.
Roneil Rumburg, Audius CEO

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Bitcoin Has Got Society to Think About the Nature of Money
2020 may be the year we see the value proposition of infrastructure built in response to bitcoin, says Daniel Gorfine, founder of Gattaca Horizons and former CFTC chief innova...
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Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation
Dissidents and Activists Have a Lot to Gain From Bitcoin, if Only They Knew It
Bitcoin is working as Satoshi intended and already helps people facing repression. The problem is, many others don’t know about it yet.
Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation

Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius Network
How DeFi Goes Mainstream in 2020: Focus on Usability
DeFi and cryptocurrencies can go mainstream, but they need to be as easy to use as Facebook or Google.
Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius Network

Galen Danziger, MouseBelt CTO
In 2019, Students Demanded Blockchain Education. In 2020, It’s Coming
Student blockchain groups are popping up across the country, but student enthusiasm is not always backed by institutional buy-in.
Galen Danziger, MouseBelt CTO

Gary Gensler
Even if a Thousand Projects Don't Make It, Blockchain Is Still a Change Catalyst
While we wait for crypto/blockchain success stories, it's already apparent that Satoshi's innovation is a change agent.
Gary Gensler

CoinList co-founder Andy Bromberg (CoinList)
The Great Crypto Experiment Continues
It wasn't a year for regulatory clarity, huge investments or mass adoption. Yet crypto still progressed.
CoinList co-founder Andy Bromberg (CoinList)