Unconfirmed - Ep.008 - Arianna Simpson of Autonomous Partners on Privacy, Cryptokitties and Crypto Regulation

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Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Arianna Simpson, managing partner of investment firm Autonomous Partners, discusses this week's news that Cambridge Analytica had used data from Facebook to perhaps manipulate the 2016 election and whether that could create an opening for blockchain-based decentralized social networks. We also cover the announcement that Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and top individual investors invested $12 million in Cryptokitties and why Simpson thinks the area of digital collectibles could take off. The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html Cryptokitties: https://www.coindesk.com/a16z-leads-12-million-funding-for-ethereum-app-cryptokitties/ Why Arianna isn't worried about the downturn: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-smart-money-isnt-worried-about-the-bitcoin-selloff-2018-03-19?siteid=rss Thank you to the sponsors of today's episode: Preciate: https://preciate.org/ and https://preciate.org/recognize/ Quantstamp: https://quantstamp.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	My guest for today's episode is Ariana Simpson,
0:30.0	Managing Director of Autonomous Partners.
0:33.1	We discussed the Facebook Cambridge Analytica Privacy Breach.
0:36.8	Why we aren't so sure it will give a boost to blockchain-based privacy,
0:39.9	crypto kitties, and more.
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