Warren Paul Anderson is VP of Product at Discreet Labs, which is developing Findora, a public blockchain with programmable privacy. Previously, Warren led products at Ripple for 4.5 years working on the XRP Ledger, Interledger, & PayString protocols, the RippleX platform, and RippleNet's On-Demand Liquidity enterprise product.

Prior to Ripple, in 2014 Warren co-founded Hedgy, one of the first DeFi platforms for derivatives using programmable, escrowed smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain. Warren has two bachelor's degrees from Northwestern University, and did graduate studies at Harvard University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Mining in 2011
- Starting a DeFi company in 2014
- XRP - hating it or loving it
- Misconceptions about privacy in crypto
- Scaling in Privacy
- Lack of Hardware in crypto
- Programmable privacy

Discreet Labs
Website: discreetlabs.io
Twitter: @discreet_labs
LinkedIn: Discreet Labs

Findora
Website: findora.org
Twitter: @Findora

Warren Paul Anderson
Twitter: @warpaul
LinkedIn: Warren Paul Anderson

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#117: Warren Paul Anderson on Privacy, Zero Knowledge Proofs & 2011 Bitcoin Mining