Ep 42: Antoinette Schoar on Decentralized Finance & Crypto

1

Introduction

00:00 • 2min

2

How Did You Get Into Microfinance?

02:04 • 2min

3

How Did You End Up at MIT?

04:27 • 2min

4

FinTech

06:06 • 5min

5

Is the World of Crypto a Critical Part of the Financial System?

10:55 • 2min

6

How Does the Bitcoin Network Work?

13:22 • 5min

7

Bitcoin Mining Capacity

18:48 • 4min

8

Is There a Concentration in the Price?

22:31 • 2min

9

Cryptocurrency

24:16 • 2min

10

Are There Really Any Bad State Actors in Cryptocurrency?

25:59 • 3min

11

Bitcoin Is Not Legal Tender, Right?

28:51 • 2min

12

Is Bitcoin the Legal Tender?

30:50 • 5min

13

Bitcoin Is Just Replicating What We've Seeded in Other Financial Systems, Right?

36:02 • 2min

14

Bitcoin

37:34 • 4min

15

The Last Mile in People's Head Is Solved by Crypto, Right?

42:00 • 2min

16

Web 3.0 and Decentralized Financing

44:08 • 3min

17

Is Regulation Making Us Complacent?

47:07 • 4min

18

Decentralized Financial System

50:54 • 3min

19

How to Turn Tainted Money Into Untraceable Money?

54:15 • 3min

20

Cryptocurrency

57:06 • 2min

21

The Biggest Challenges With Smart Contracts, Right?

59:24 • 3min

22

How to Get Compensation in Cryptocurrency Contracts?

01:02:12 • 4min

23

Blockchain and DeFi

01:05:45 • 5min

24

Privacy Is Great but Not Here, Right?

01:10:58 • 4min

25

The Crypto Purists Are Concerned About Permissioned Blockchains

01:15:08 • 3min

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What Advice Do You Have for Young People in Cryptocurrency?

01:18:25 • 5min