Info@coincenter.org (Jerry Brito)

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UnchainedIs TRM Labs Blocking Addresses From DeFi Protocols? Ari Redbord Says NoAri Redbord, Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, talks about the sanctions on Tornado Cash, and the role of blockchain analytics tools in crypto. Show highlights: Ari’s background as a federal prosecutor and his work for the US Treasury why regulators sanctioned Tornado Cash, according to Ari why the Ronin hack was important for regulators to start taking DeFi hacks more seriously the fact that for the first time the Treasury Department sanctioned software whether the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) messed up whether regulators understood the impact on regu...2022-08-1939 min

UnchainedThe Chopping Block: Did OFAC Overstep by Sanctioning Tornado Cash?Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Laura Shin, host of Unchained and author of The Cryptopians, also joined the conversation. Show topics: What Tornado Cash is and why it got sanctioned by the OFAC The difference between Tornado Cash and blender.io Whether privacy is dead as a category and whether regulators are going after it How these sanctions have a negative impact on the funding of privacy projects How people wit...2022-08-181h 18

UnchainedTornado Cash Sanctioned. Did the Government Overstep Its Bounds?Jerry Brito, executive director of Coin Center, talks about Tornado Cash, why it was sanctioned, and what this means for privacy in crypto. Show highlights: what Blender.io is and how it relates to Tornado Cash how hackers have used Tornado Cash to launder money whether the Office of Foreign Assets Control made a mistake, according to Jerry how Americans were affected by the sanctions why Jerry believes OFAC should have done an analysis to estimate how many people would be impacted by its decision whether the sanctions should have been aimed at North Koren wallets an...2022-08-1238 min

BanklessTornado Cash BANNED By OFAC... Is this the War on Crypto?On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department made a smart contract illegal. They can do that?? David walks you through the news, with multiple interviews from Jerry Brito and Collins Belton, two experts in the matter. Let us know how you like the format! ------ 🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALED ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum ❎ ACROSS | BRIDGE TO LAYER 2 https://bankless.cc/Across 🏦 ALTO IRA | TAX-FREE CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/AltoIRA 👻 AAVE V3...2022-08-1128 min

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Monero TalkLIVE w/ Jerry Brito of Coin Center at MoneroKon 2019! TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: We speak with Jerry Brito, the executive director of Coin Center, the leading non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies like Bitcoin, and coauthor of scholarly work on the regulation of cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers. Links: Case for Electronic Cash: https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case... Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE! The more subscribers, the more we can help Monero grow! 🚀 Listen & Reach out to us: 🎧PODCAST: ITUNES: https://apple.co/34W7FVp SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/2t1y9b4 GOOG...2019-06-2217 min

UnchainedOslo Freedom Forum 2019: Protecting Financial Freedoms in the Digital AgeIn this panel, recorded at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019, I moderated what an attendee described as a "lively" discussion on the relationship between finances and freedom with Bitcoin author and educator Jimmy Song; Alena Vranova, Head of Strategy at Casa; and Coin Center founder Jerry Brito. We talked about what it's like to live under a regime where people don’t have a lot of financial freedom, how the move to a cashless society is leading to a surveillance state, and how we're seeing the emergence of a corporate surveillance state. We talked about how cryptocurrency could bring us mo...2019-06-1155 min

UnconfirmedTo the Moon and Back With Polychain's Olaf Carlson-WeeHow Polychain is faring during the crypto winter, where we are in the tech cycle, whether he thinks Ethereum 2.0 will deliver and how he views the competition in the smart contract space. We discuss the upcoming Facebook coin, what that might look like, and how his portfolio projects could compete against a token issued by a large company. We cover how regulatory uncertainty is affecting the development of crypto projects, what he thinks of the fact that some trends in the DeFi movement seem to mimic the risks leading up to the financial contract, why he's so excited about...2019-05-2436 min

UnchainedHow to Trade on Crypto Exchanges Without Fear of HacksSharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen and Boston University computer science professor, describes how the protocol enables people to trade on crypto exchanges without making their coins vulnerable to exchange hacks, how this differs from trading on a decentralized exchange, and how Arwen would function if the exchange you were using on was hacked during a trade. She also discusses how Arwen works with any custody solution, how they choose which coins to support and what other features they are considering adding in the future. Read the full show notes on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2019/05/21...2019-05-211h 11

UnconfirmedWhy HTC's Exodus 1s Will Have a Full Bitcoin NodePhil Chen, decentralized chief officer of HTC, discusses the upcoming model of the Exodus, why it will feature a full Bitcoin node, what's in it for the user, whether or not it will affect the performance of other apps on the phone and whether HTC would ever add mining capabilities for the phone. We cover how the phone also functions as a hardware wallet, how private keys are kept safe, and how they are recovered if the user loses their phone. Plus, he describes who the ideal user is and how having so many crypto features built into the...2019-05-1728 min

Bitcoin AudibleThe Case for Electronic Cash [Jerry Brito]The full audio version of "The Case for Electronic Cash" by Jerry Brito. Abstract Cash is more than a method of payment. It is a fundamental tool for individual privacy and autonomy, and it is necessary for an open society. This paper shows that a cashless economy is a surveillance economy. It also argues that removing the option to freely transact without intermediation greatly limits our economic self-determination, placing our economic lives in the hands of financial institutions and governments. This paper presents several case studies demonstrating the dangers of a completely intermediated payments system and concludes that electronic cash i...2019-04-251h 04

Unconfirmed TransactionsEp. 4 - "Regulate This" (03/19/2016)On this episode, I am joined again by Tone Vays to discuss a recent Congressional hearing on disruptive blockchain technology. We discuss privacy, encryption, regulation, government, and more. There's even a video of us doing it live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0fn7i_0srY Please note, I made a mistake with the audio so my mouth noises and touching the mic gets picked up more than it should. I will fix that going forward, I hope. Follow Dan: https://twitter.com/droplister Follow Tone: https://twitter.com/Tone_LLT Here are the links for content discussed in...2016-03-1955 min $Let\'s Talk Bitcoin!$ Let's Talk Bitcoin!LTB E238 - Law and Code##On Todays Show * [Jerry Brito](https://coincenter.org/2015/08/effs-opposition-to-california-bill-unwittingly-endangers-bitcoin-innovators/), Executive Director of [Coin Center] speaks about the in-development "California Bitlicense" and responds to [issues raised by the EFF last week](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/license-kill-innovation-why-ab-1326-californias-bitcoin-license-bad-business) * Notable Futurist [Cory Doctorow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y) presents a talk on what's broken in the world today and why we should fix it. ###Subscribe to the [**LTBn All Podcasts feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow) or the [**Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/ltb) and never miss an episode again. --- #Sponsors: [**KeepKey...2015-08-151h 39 $Let\'s Talk Bitcoin!$ Let's Talk Bitcoin!LTB E230 - The Regulatory Burden##On Todays Show [Adam](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/andreas) and [Jerry Brito](), Executive Director of non-profit research and advocacy group [Coin Center](http://coincenter.org/). They discuss what "good" regulation could look like, the highs and lows in California/New Yorks respective efforts and more. If you want more of Coin Centers perspective [don't miss their blog](https://coincenter.org/category/blog/?future=false) --- ###Subscribe to the [**LTBn All Podcasts feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow) or the [**Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/ltb) and never miss an episode again. Check out...2015-07-1531 min