Interviews

Interviews

Merkado

Elon Is 'In It for the Profit Motive': An Interview With Google's Neel Mehta

Crypto will become part of the establishment, says bestselling author Neel Mehta. But bubbles, revolutions and a billionaire's tweetstorms come first.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Merkado

Strike's Jack Mallers on Fixing the Fiat Problem

Jack Mallers discusses Bitcoin, El Salvador and how Strike can capture the power of open networks to spread further than fintech.

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Merkado

Consensus 2021: 7 Questions for Bitcoin Anarchist Eric Voskuil

We asked a Bitcoin developer about the patronage model, on-chain privacy, lessons from Taproot and Bitcoin's energy consumption.

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Merkado

An Interview With Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov

Chainlink is one of the fastest-growing crypto projects, helping to bridge the digital and physical worlds through data. We sat down with its co-founder ahead of Consensus 2021.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Merkado

Why Care About Bitcoin? Here's One Philosopher's Take

Peter Wolfendale is one of the deep thinkers of the social media age. He sees crypto as a new social and monetary force.

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Merkado

Polygon's Ethereum Scaling Project Is Never Complete: Sandeep Nailwal

Polygon's co-founder and COO says he works 18-19 hours a day, helping to build a project that will grow alongside Ethereum.

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Merkado

Consensus 2021: The Ongoing Fight for Privacy

A conversation with crypto lawyer Marta Belcher about how cryptocurrencies fit into the decades-long battle for online privacy and the coming attacks against it.

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Merkado

Crypto Is Still the Frontier for Journalism

An interview with ERC-20 co-creator Simon de la Rouviere about his new media project combining NFTs, DAOs and cryptocurrency.

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Tech

'We Blew It.' Douglas Rushkoff's Take on the Future of the Web

Douglas Rushkoff is a futurist and early cypherpunk. His early writings on the internet paved the way for thinking about the web in revolutionary terms. What's changed?

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Merkado

Did Ethereum Learn Anything From the $55M DAO Attack?

Matthew Leising's new book, "Out of the Ether," tells the story of the attack that almost brought down Ethereum. Here he talks with Dan Kuhn.

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