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Now, today I'm joined by Melton Demiers.

Melton has, in her own words, been bitten by the Bitcoin bug.

And as a passionate evangelist for decentralized finance or DeFi,

the financial innovation that the crypto currencies ecosystem enables.

Melton is a senior executive at coin chairs.

It's a digital asset investment firm with more than $4 billion under management,

where she holds dual roles as a chief strategy officer and the general partner of the venture capital arm,

which invests in early stage fintechs at work with blockchain technologies.

Now, before we get going, I want to introduce some background in terms we will be using.

Melton and I dive in quite quickly.

Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency created by someone using the non-duplume of Satoshi Nakamoto.

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