Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 2020

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4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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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 entrace of corporate and government actors into the space.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW.
0:14.0	The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk.
0:21.1	Welcome back to the Breakdown's end-year extravaganza, and we have finally reached our
0:26.3	final episode in this series of end-of-year interviews and look-forward predictions, and we're
0:31.9	going to close it out with Taylor Monaghan, the founder and CEO of My Crypto.
0:35.7	And the reason that I chose this interview to close us out
0:38.1	is that we get really big, right? We're not talking about these small little topics. We're talking
0:43.4	about a very existential question, which is what the future of crypto holds. In Taylor's
0:48.5	estimation, this year is actually a dividing line potentially. Between on the one hand,
0:53.8	the cypherpunk censorship resistant
0:55.7	permissionless non-sovereign sort of values that we all came into this industry with versus
1:01.1	the potential for co-optation and corruption by the introduction of new types of corporate actors
1:06.9	or government actors into the digital currency space which will will it be? Is this a fork in the road
1:12.3	moment? These are the questions we get into on this interview. I hope you enjoy it. And if you do like it,
1:17.3	you should subscribe to the breakdown. We're back tomorrow with our standard format, which is an
1:21.8	everyday analysis in breaking down of the most important topics in crypto and Bitcoin. But before that, let's hear from
1:28.7	Taylor. Let's get into this interview. All right. I am here with Taylor Monaghan of MyCripto.
1:37.3	MyCripto.com. How are you doing? What's going on? I'm pretty good. You know,
1:41.8	this space is, it's insane. It's amazing. But, you know, it's, it's a, it's a good way to wrap up the year.
1:50.6	Yeah, it's definitely, I feel like it's been like bored for a little while. And now it's like, well, I'm going to toss you around a little bit this week just to just to end the year, right?
1:59.9	Exactly. And we should should I shouldn't be surprised
2:03.6	by that anymore but you know I am it's amazing how fast this like that the space lulls you
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