Amber Baldet on what blockchain technology can do for us beyond cryptocurrency

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel interviews cryptocurrency expert Amber Baldet, co-founder of Clovyr and on the board of the Zcash foundation. Nilay and Amber discuss where cryptocurrencies on the blockchain are going, the potential of Facebook's Libra project, and how the blockchain can revive our trust in putting our data online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's you all from the Vertcast.
0:01.8	On this week's interview episode,
0:02.9	I'm very excited to welcome Amber Baldet.
0:05.1	She's a co-founder of Clover.
0:07.1	She's on the board of the ZCAST Foundation.
0:08.8	One of the most common requests I get is to do an interview
0:12.6	about cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
0:14.8	Something to be quite honest,
0:15.8	I don't think I know nearly enough about.
0:17.6	Amber is an expert though.
0:19.4	She's been working in the space for a long time.
0:21.2	She's worked for big banks.
0:22.8	She has worked at startups in the crypto space.
0:25.2	She has consulted for a huge number of companies.
0:28.2	We talked a lot about where cryptocurrencies and the blockchain
0:30.2	have been, where they're going,
0:31.7	where they're still promise, what they're for.
0:34.8	We talked about Facebook's Libra project,
0:37.0	which seems to be falling apart.
0:39.6	And we spent a lot of time talking about trust.
0:41.9	How the blockchain can make it so that we don't necessarily
0:44.3	have to trust these big companies
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