BREAKDOWN: Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 2020
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🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Monahan is the founder and CEO of MyCrypto. In this interview as part of The Breakdown’s end of year coverage, she argues that the level of discourse in crypto matured in 2019, with more focus on things that actually matter. That’s important, because in 2020, she predicts a major fork-in-the-road moment, where the industry as a whole could either stay on the path set out in its cypherpunk roots, or be significantly co-opted and corrupted by the entrance of corporate and government actors into the space.
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| 1:10.8 | Welcome back to the Breakdown's end of year extravaganza, and we have finally reached our |
| 1:16.0 | final episode in this series of end of year interviews and look forward predictions. And we're |
| 1:21.6 | going to close it out with Taylor Monahan, the founder and CEO of My Crypto. And the reason that I |
| 1:26.2 | chose this interview to close us out is that |
| 1:28.2 | we get really big, right? We're not talking about these small little topics. We're talking about a |
| 1:33.5 | very existential question, which is what the future of crypto holds. In Taylor's estimation, this |
| 1:39.1 | year is actually a dividing line potentially. Between on the one hand, the cypherpunk censorship resistant permissionless |
| 1:46.0 | non-sovereign sort of values that we all came into this industry with versus the potential for |
| 1:52.2 | co-optation and corruption by the introduction of new types of corporate actors or government actors |
| 1:57.5 | into the digital currency space. Which will it be? |
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