Willem Schroe is the Founder and CEO of Botanix Labs. He is an engineer and lifelong entrepreneur from Belgium, where he researched authenticated encryption and macroeconomics, and was a national mathematics medalist. He formed the thesis of the Spiderchain while doing his MBA at Harvard, and he continues to believe in the vision of building a fully decentralized global financial system on Bitcoin.
Topics:
- Willem’s background in cryptography
- Botanix EVM L2 enabling DeFi, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Staking and more
- Recent $11.5 million funding
- Tether minting USDT on Botanix Spiderchain
- Bitcoin Maximalism and expanding BTC use cases
- Bitcoin ETFs and adoption
- Crypto Regulations
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Timestamps
02:15 Willem’s background
04:20 Bitcoin and Cryptography
06:17 Botanix overview
08:48 Spiderchains explained
11:53 New Bitcoin use cases
14:26 Tether USDT on Bitcoin Spiderchain
14:56 Lightning Network
15:34 Bitcoin Maxis and BTC use cases
17:06 Network Security
18:09 Working with Bitcoin Miners and ETF issuers
21:48 2024 roadmap
24:35 BTC adoption
26:38 Crypto Regulations
29:30 CBDCs
32:16 Wrap up questions
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