BREAKDOWN: The Most Important Bitcoin Infrastructure Developments of 2020, feat. Alyse Killeen
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🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A look at privacy and infrastructure advances that will shape the bitcoin ecosystem in the years to come.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.
Alyse Killeen is the founder and managing partner of StillMark, and has been investing in bitcoin companies since 2013. While much of the conversation this year has been about high level narratives and new institutional investors, Alyse breaks down the technical advances that happened this year.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the way folks come into Bitcoin is shifting and that that will be meaningful for Bitcoin. |
| 0:07.4 | Specifically, I think that as folks begin to earn Bitcoin and the way that they understand its utility |
| 0:16.0 | because they're able to save or spend in ways that they hadn't before, those folks will be the ones that |
| 0:23.0 | are really shaping the definition of what Bitcoin is for the longer term. And so paying |
| 0:28.3 | attention there is something that should be meaningful for the community as a whole. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:38.5 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:44.3 | The breakdown is sponsored by crypto.com and nexo.io. |
| 0:48.4 | And produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:53.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, December 31st. Happy New Year's Eve. Today on the |
| 0:59.7 | breakdowns end of year extravaganza, given that it was New Year's Eve, I thought I'd bring |
| 1:03.7 | the person who, among many other things, helped the chain smokers get involved in the |
| 1:09.3 | crypto and digital asset space. |
| 1:11.8 | Elise Colleen is the founding managing partner of Stillmark, the Bitcoin VC firm. |
| 1:16.6 | She's been in Bitcoin since 2013 and has been an angel investor in numerous tech and Bitcoin |
| 1:21.1 | startups. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm really excited to welcome Elise to the show. |
| 1:24.2 | So let's dive into the conversation. |
| 1:26.8 | All right, Elise, welcome to the breakdown. |
| 1:29.8 | It's great to have you here. Awesome. Thanks for having me. So this should be really fun. I think you'll |
| 1:35.1 | have a really cool perspective on a lot of these questions. To get started, I've been asking everyone |
| 1:40.0 | the same kickoff question, which is what, in your opinion, was the most important economic |
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