Jean-Michel Pailhon - The Case for Crypto: Key Benefits and Risks of Investing in Cryptocurrency

Jean-Michel Pailhon is Vice-president at Ledger, the leading company in security solutions for crypto-assets, where he’s heading the company’s product initiatives. He joined Ledger in early 2017 when the company had 20 employees initially leading the finance, strategy and corporate development initiatives. Before that, Jean-Michel spent 15+ years in the financial industry, working for Euronext and then the New York Stock Exchange, where he held various management positions covering finance, strategy, fund management, M&A and IPO. Jean-Michel is a founding member of the French Fintech Startups Association (https://francefintech.org/en/) and is a lecturer in finance and strategy at ESSEC Business School and Pantheon Assas University (France).

Tune in to hear:

• Why compelling use cases might be more critical than the price action for the healthy growth, and widespread adoption, of bitcoin and other crypto currencies

• 5 to 10 years from now might volatility in Bitcoin look more like US equities or is it more likely to remain a volatile asset throughout its lifetime?

• What does Jean-Michel see as the primary use case for Bitcoin?

• Bitcoin’s slow processing speed is one of its main drawbacks. Might there be something to remedy this, or will Bitcoin always be slow?

• Bitcoin is the most famous and popular cryptocurrency - is it likely that we will improve upon its design, ultimately being replaced, or is it likely to remain on top in a decade?

• What are some of the biggest looming threats to the growth of Bitcoin? Are regulatory risks among them?

• How interconnected are the fates of blockchain technology more broadly and Bitcoin and can one succeed without the other?

• What is DeFi (Decentralized Finance) and how can it add value?

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