Luther Maday Interview – MoneyGram’s Crypto Adoption – Stellar USDC – Ripple XRP – Crypto Regulation

Luther Maday is the Head of Fintech Strategy and Innovation at MoneyGram. In this interview we discuss how MoneyGram has adopted crypto, partnering with Stellar, using the USDC stablecoin for payment, working with Ripple in the past, crypto regulations, CBDCs, crypto bear market and much more. https://youtu.be/UHEOUSqWg9M Transcript Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Luther Maday, who's the head of FinTech Strategy and Innovation at MoneyGram. Luther, great to have you on the show. I'm super excited to be here, Tony, thank…

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Ben Edgington Interview – Ethereum’s Merge to Proof of Stake – ConsenSys & Quorum

Ben Edgington is the Lead Product Owner at ConsenSys which works on the Ethereum and Quorum blockchains. Ben breaks down Ethereum's move from proof of work to proof of stake, the upcoming merge, staking Eth, institutional adoption of Eth, NFTs on Ethereum, crypto regulations, and much more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuNYWiglVrM Transcript Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today, is Ben Edgington, who's the lead product owner at ConsenSys. Ben, it's great to have you on the show. Real pleasure to be here, Tony. Thanks for the…

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Chris Giancarlo Interview – Digital Dollar Project – US CBDC – Fed, Ripple – Crypto Regulations

In my third interview with Chris Giancarlo, Former CFTC Chairman, Author, and member of the Digital Dollar project, we discuss the latest updates around the US Digital Dollar CBDC, Fed’s move towards the Digital Dollar, suggestion for Technical Sandbox with Ripple, EMTECH, DigitalAsset and others, Tornado Cash situation, SEC, CFTC, and crypto regulations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVqDhsgq22M Transcript Welcome back to the "Thinking Crypto" podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Chris Giancarlo, who is the former CFTC chairman and author of the book, "CryptoDad, the Fight for the Future of Money".…

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Congressman Tom Emmer Interview – Crypto Regulations, SEC Gary Gensler, Stablecoins & CBDCs

In my 3rd interview with Congressman Tom Emmer we discuss the current state of US crypto regulations, stablecoin regulations, CBDCs and US Digital Dollar, Tornado Cash, SEC Gary Gensler, SEC investigation over Ethereum conflicts of interest and Ripple XRP lawsuit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GEv1C-XzTc

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Chris Giancarlo Interview – US CBDC Digital Dollar Pilots – Biden Crypto Executive Order – Stablecoins

Former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo (CryptoDad) talks about the latest updates on the Digital Dollar project and launch of CBDC pilots with the DTCC via project Lithium. We also discuss could a stablecoin such as Circle's USDC be used as a CBDC. In addition we discuss President Biden's Crypto executive order, Ukraine crypto adoption, Russia and sanctions evasion via cryptocurrency. Privacy Principles for a Digital Dollar: https://digitaldollarproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DDP-Privacy-Principles-10.25.21_Final.pdf Digital Dollar Project White Paper http://digitaldollarproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Digital-Dollar-Project-Whitepaper_vF_7_13_20.pdf https://youtu.be/i2yZ3kGV6mQ

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David Schwartz Interview – NFTs on XRP Ledger, Ripple ODL, SEC, CBDCs, Jack Mallers, Elon Musk

David Schwartz is the CTO at Ripple and in this interview we discuss the XLS-20 update which will enable NFTs to be built at scale on the XRP Ledger, Ripple ODL, CBDCs on Private Ledgers, SEC Lawsuit, Biden Crypto Executive Order, Polysign, Flare SongBird, Elon Musk Twitter and Free Speech, and much more. https://youtu.be/UDTb-29hh2k

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