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Breaking Political and Financial Silos with Blockchain
Next Creators
English - August 18, 2020 14:42 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBTechnology Business Entrepreneurship decentralized entrepreneurs builders defi community nfts creators Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jill Carlson is a principal at Slow Ventures and co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit that researches how people use money in closed economies and collapsing monetary systems.
In this episode she talks with Sasha about:
•Early days of Bitcoin and Venezuela
•How cryptocurrencies can dig tunnels through financial silos
•Why she's still bullish on Layer 1 protocols
•Advice on how to break into the crypto space when you're outside of it
•Where founders can go for a source of inspiration
Episode links:
Slow Ventures - https://slow.co
Open Money Initiative - https://www.openmoneyinitiative.org
Jill Carlson - @jillruthcarlson (https://twitter.com/jillruthcarlson)
Sasha Hudzilin - @AliaksandrH (https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH)
Learn more about the Open Web Collective and apply to be part of the community of founders and builders - https://www.openwebcollective.com