Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

Ep 42: Antoinette Schoar on Decentralized Finance & Crypto

Jul 7, 2022

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

02:08

Bitcoin Mining Capacity

03:43

How to Get Compensation in Cryptocurrency Contracts?

03:33

Introduction

2min

How Did You Get Into Microfinance?

2min

How Did You End Up at MIT?

2min

FinTech

5min

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

2min

How Does the Bitcoin Network Work?

5min

Bitcoin Mining Capacity

4min

Is There a Concentration in the Price?

2min

Cryptocurrency

2min

10.

Are There Really Any Bad State Actors in Cryptocurrency?

3min

11.

Bitcoin Is Not Legal Tender, Right?

2min

12.

Is Bitcoin the Legal Tender?

5min

13.

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

2min

14.

Bitcoin

4min

15.

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

2min

16.

Web 3.0 and Decentralized Financing

3min

17.

Is Regulation Making Us Complacent?

4min

18.

Decentralized Financial System

3min

19.

How to Turn Tainted Money Into Untraceable Money?

3min

20.

Cryptocurrency

2min

21.

The Biggest Challenges With Smart Contracts, Right?

3min

22.

How to Get Compensation in Cryptocurrency Contracts?

4min

23.

Blockchain and DeFi

5min

24.

Privacy Is Great but Not Here, Right?

4min

25.

The Crypto Purists Are Concerned About Permissioned Blockchains

3min

26.

What Advice Do You Have for Young People in Cryptocurrency?

5min

Will cryptocurrencies save the world or create a new can of worms? Antoinette Schoar joins Vasant Dhar in episode 42 of Brave New World to take us on a dispassionate tour through the world of Bitcoin, blockchains and DeFi. Useful resources: 1. Antoinette Schoar At MIT Sloan School of Management and Google Scholar. 2. Cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi) -- Igor Makarov and Antoinette Schoar 3. David Yermack on The Crypto Revolution -- Episode 30 of Brave New World. 4. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System -- Satoshi Nakamoto. 5. Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador -- Fernando Alvarez, David Argente and Diana Van Patten. 6. Incomplete Contracts and Control -- Oliver Hart's Nobel Prize Lecture.

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Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

Ep 42: Antoinette Schoar on Decentralized Finance & Crypto

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

Bitcoin Mining Capacity

How to Get Compensation in Cryptocurrency Contracts?

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