Congressman Wiley Nickel, a Democrat from North Carolina joins me to discuss: Repealing the SEC’s unlawful SAB 121 rule The SEC and Gary Gensler losing in court Can Congress get crypto regulations passed this year? Bitcoin Spot ETFs CBDCs and US Digital Dollar Digital Identity on the Blockchain and how this can impact future elections His plans to run for US senate in 2026 https://youtu.be/uuqu7pFbJjQ?si=W74cYmYkq_hTMDim
Chris Giancarlo is a former CFTC chairman and author of the book crypto dad the fight for the future of money, co founder of the digital dollar project. We discuss: What's the latest with the Digital Dollar Fed Chair Jerome Powell's recent comments about the Digital Dollar development Stablecoins vs CBDCs Will AI be used with the Digital Dollar CBDC? Thoughts on members of Congress and some political candidates coming out against CBDCs Revisiting the pushback on Facebook's Diem Digital Currency Bitcoin Spot ETF CFTC vs SEC Ethereum https://youtu.be/oogDHpTvmzs
Staci Warden is the CEO of the Algorand Foundation. We discuss: Staci’s transition from TradFi to Crypto The pushback on Crypto from Jamie Dimon and TradFi incumbents Algorand blockchain and foundation overview Interesting projects being built on Algorand Algorand Consensus Incentivization - Staking in a Node Are CBDCS still being built on Algorand? SEC Attack on Crypto and ALGO mentioned in lawsuits Upgrades coming to the Algorand Blockchain HesabPay investment Tokenization Bitcoin Spot ETFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7W8681WlKk
John Wu is the president of Ava Labs. We discuss: Ava Labs overview What makes the Avalanche Blockchain unique Plan to scale to 100K TPS Avax staking JPMorgan utilizing Avalanche for tokenization Amazon Web Services partnership How to bring in the next 1 billion users to Crypto Bitcoin Spot ETF launch US Crypto Regulations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZ98OMYwII Key Takeaways: Amazon Web Services and Ava Labs have a partnership to provide compute power and storage for emerging crypto companies and developers. Traditional enterprises looking to deploy blockchain-enabled solutions are introduced to Ava Labs through Amazon Web Services.…
Anthony Scaramucci is the founder of Skybridge Capital and a former White House Communications Director. We discuss: Takeaways from Davos 2024 Jamie Dimon's hate for Bitcoin Bitcoin Spot ETF launch impact Ethereum Spot ETF Biden vs Trump 2024 Election & who is better for Crypto moving forward Vivek & Trump CBDCs SkyBridge's Crypto Investment Strategy Fed, Interest Rates, and Market Outlook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lm4ZeDsCU
David Schwartz who is CTO at Ripple. We discuss: SEC Ripple XRP Ruling Crypto disruption of money and Governments reaction Ripple Metaco & HSBC Are Banks more open to Crypto and blockchain now? XRPL AMM CBDC and Stablecoin Pilots on XRPL New XRP Ledger use cases PolySign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xansTf2Uw6E Transcription Welcome back to the "Thinking Crypto" podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news in the interviews. With me today is David Schwartz, who's the chief technical officer at Ripple. David, welcome back. Thank you, Tony. So David, we've been talking for years, and there's been a…
