SotN#26: Defending our Nodes w/ Coin Center's Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh
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🗓️ 9 December 2020
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Defending Crypto from the STABLE Act | Coin Center's Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh
Coin Center is a non-profit organization focused on public policy isues facing public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
While Bitcoin and Ethereum are unstoppable internet networks, Nation States can still mediate our relationship with them, and therefore fighting the regulatory fight is extremely important!
Coin Center recently opened up their Gitcoin Grant https://gitcoin.co/grants/1668/coin-center-is-educating-policy-makers-about-publ which has received an outpouring of support.
Maybe it has to do with the STABLE Act? This act was recently introduced by Rashida Tlaib and others, in an attempt to add regulatory oversight to those that issue and leverage stablecoins.
We bring on Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh to help us understand the perspective coming out of the STABLE Act, and its implications to our industry.
Coin Center's website: https://www.coincenter.org/
The STABLE Act: https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/tlaib-garcia-and-lynch-stableact
Coin Center's Gitcoin Grant: https://gitcoin.co/grants/1668/coin-center-is-educating-policy-makers-about-publ
Preston Byrne's blog post on the STABLE Act: https://prestonbyrne.com/blog/
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| 0:00.0 | When you own crypto, what really matters is the security and ownership over your assets. |
| 0:05.5 | Being a part of the bankless nation means having complete sovereignty over your crypto. |
| 0:09.8 | The easiest way to do that is with a ledger hardware wallet. |
| 0:12.9 | A hardware wallet is a little device that manages your private keys for you so you don't |
| 0:16.9 | have to worry about proper private key management. |
| 0:20.2 | Your ledger hardware wallet keeps your private keys private but still lets you have easy access |
| 0:25.3 | to your crypto. |
| 0:26.6 | The combination of my ledger hardware wallet and Metamask lets me store my crypto assets |
| 0:31.4 | in the most safe way possible but still lets me easily access Uniswap or all the other |
| 0:36.3 | DeFi apps that I use on a daily basis. |
| 0:39.5 | If you already have a ledger wallet, you can use the ledger-lived app to participate |
| 0:43.5 | in some of the money verbs that we discuss in the bankless program. |
| 0:47.6 | The ledger-lived app is your headquarters for managing your personal crypto finance. |
| 0:52.9 | It's a great tool to manage the assets you hold on your ledger as well as receive |
| 0:56.9 | a portfolio summary of all the assets that you have stored. |
| 1:01.0 | Using the ledger-lived app, you can buy Bitcoin, Ether, and stablecoins and have it |
| 1:05.1 | sent directly to your ledger hardware wallet, skipping over the trusted exchanges and |
| 1:09.7 | getting your assets into your control. |
| 1:12.3 | You can even use the ledger-lived app to swap crypto assets natively inside of the |
| 1:16.4 | app so you never need to send your crypto assets away from your ledger to make a trade. |
| 1:21.0 | Making a ledger is like buying a fire extinguisher. |
| 1:23.1 | The best time to get one was yesterday, especially if you're doing something silly like holding |
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