Consensus 2020
as the organisers put it
Consensus Miami by CoinDesk: Where blockchain, Web3, bitcoin, finance, and technology leaders network and do business.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What Black Thursday Says About the Crypto Market | Catherine Coley, Max Boonen, Miha Grcar | 18m |
Markets plunge over >40% drop on March 12 and infrastructure responses diverge: an OTC desk reports business continuity drills and sustained liquidity from a… | ||
| The DC Crypto Scene | Chris Brummer | 05m |
Event description claims a rapid build into a premier global convening that pairs technologists, entrepreneurs and regulators, with past participation from… | ||
| Why Customer Service Matters in Enterprise Blockchain | Adam Caplan, Dominic Williams | 13m |
Enterprise customers need permissioned networks with explicit access controls for who reads and edits data, and Salesforce is prototyping integrations on… | ||
| What Does a Future Crypto World Look Like? | Garrick Hileman, Thessy Mehraine, Ann Brody | 18m |
Panel argues bitcoin gains credibility daily and could someday be held by central banks but that outcome is still far into the future; governments already… | ||
| The Horror and the Fun of Crypto Twitter | Dovey Wan, Nic Carter | 14m |
Compares investor profiles: China is retail-driven, rife with scammers, and dominated by miners who act as miners as long-term holders because mining is… | ||
| The Battle of Digital Currencies: Digital Dollar vs. Facebook's Libra | Chris Giancarlo, Dante Disparte | 18m |
Digital Dollar Project argues for a US central bank digital currency that is privacy by design with programmable rules to speed relief payments and… | ||
| Crypto Hacks for Coronavirus with Balaji Srinivasan | Balaji Srinivasan | 07m |
Warned early on Twitter that COVID could be a once‑in‑a‑century pandemic and pushed concrete fixes: restructure FDA approval by allowing interstate compacts as… | ||
| What does the Future of Wealth Look Like? | Erik Voorhees | 15m |
Argues that Bitcoin removes the ability of humans to change monetary policy, so a virus cannot permanently rearrange economic relationships; criticizes recent… | ||
| A Space War on Digital Currencies Between U.S. and China | Matthew Graham, Nicholas Merten | 16m |
Halving cuts miner issuance from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC, creating a supply shock that reduces daily sell pressure and is judged a moderately bullish event while… | ||
| The First Principles for a Decentralized Future | Sheila Warren, David Treat, Amber Baldet | 29m |
World Economic Forum’s Global Blockchain Council publishes the Presidio Principles on GitHub, keeps 80+% of its original wording, and accepts community merge… | ||
| Why Do We Need a Decentralized Storage System? | Juan Benet | 12m |
Protocol Labs builds Filecoin on top of IPFS and libp2p to create a blockchain-based marketplace where anyone can earn crypto by renting storage; storage and… | ||
| Slow Down - Skip Marley | Virtual Performance | Skip Marley | 04m |
Performance of the single Slow Down uses a spare backing track with layered harmonies and a deliberate, intimate tempo that centers a repeated refrain. Lyrics… | ||
| The Importance of Sustainable Enterprise Blockchains | Caroline Malcolm, Douglas Johnson-Peonsgen | 17m |
OECD work maps blockchain into sustainable finance and infrastructure and Circulor shows a production system for responsible sourcing and CO2 tracking across… | ||
| The Supply Chain Challenge of Enterprise Blockchain | Gert Sylvest, Pedro Lopez-Belmonte, Guido Molinari | 11m |
Companies convert invoices and purchase orders into tradeable digital assets on a blockchain to unlock predictable working capital and let financiers buy… | ||
| Lover - Muthoni Drummer Queen | Virtual Performance | Muthoni Drummer Queen | 09m |
Performs the song "Lover" live as a virtual concert from Nairobi while a production team mixes from Switzerland, proving a cross‑continent show can actually… | ||
| Crypto For UNICEF: Investing in a Digitally Financed Future | Christina Lomazzo | 10m |
UNICEF Crypto Fund spends two years building legal and operational rails and accepted bitcoin and ether (UNICEF France took BTC as early as Sept 2018) before… | ||
| Why Akon is Creating a New Cryptocurrency for Africa | Akon | 11m |
Akoin launches as a Kenya-first digital currency built on the Stellar blockchain with an initial exchange offering to provide liquidity while targeting… | ||
| Does a Crypto Network Exist Without a Community? | Maria Paula Fernandez, Sunny Aggarwal | 15m |
Argues that social consensus shows up as concrete actions not promises: organizers build the Guardian testnet and run hackathons to align incentives; core… | ||
| PWC's Henri Arslanian on Hedge Funds, Paul Tudor Jones and more | Henri Arslanian | 15m |
PwC’s survey finds AUM doubled year‑over‑year and the share of funds over $20M jumps from 19% to 35%; median crypto hedge fund size grows fourfold since… | ||
| Trade Crypto and Mitigate Risks, Experienced Fund Managers Explains. | Michael Moro, YinFeng Shao | 18m |
Discussion argues bitcoin’s programmatic supply and 11 years of history make miners planned for halving well in advance while OTC desks absorb large miner… | ||
| Is COVID-19 the Perfect Storm for Cryptocurrencies? | Anthony Pompliano, Changpeng Zhao | 05m |
Claim: the policy response to COVID-19 — central banks print trillions of dollars and governments bail out failing firms — drives demand for crypto as an… | ||
| Crypto for Stimulus: A Better Way to Move Money During COVID-19 | Catherine Coley | 09m |
Argues the U.S. should send stimulus via stablecoins and shows how that would work using BUSD: NYDFS-approved, custodied at Paxos with 1:1 USD backing, with… | ||
| What Happens to Crypto When Government Currencies Go Digital? | Caitlin Long, Joe Lubin | 26m |
Central banks are actively experimenting with CBDCs and governments already use digital payments for taxes and cross‑border settlement; private stablecoins and… | ||
| The Ethereum Amendment Process with Tezos Founder Kathleen Breitman | Kathleen Breitman | 13m |
Tezos describes a concrete onchain governance flow with a four-phase upgrade vote (proposal, exploration, testing, promotion), a deliberately high ratification… | ||
| What does Post Quarantine Gaming Look Like? Blockchain Gaming | Kathleen Breitman | 20m |
Coase builds an original collectible card game called Emergence on the Tezos blockchain and publishes an SDK so cards can be ported and alternate rules engines… | ||
| Digital Assets' Approach in Enterprise Blockchain | Yuval Rooz | 10m |
Digital Assets offers a smart‑contract language, DAML, that claims to let teams build an application once and deploy it across different ledgers without… | ||
| The Winklevoss Twins Convinces Banks to Invest in Blockchain | The Winklevoss Twins | 10m |
Gemini launches in 2015 as a licensed, regulation-first exchange and claims to have convinced banks by prioritizing commercial privacy on public ledgers… | ||
| What are Banks of the Future? With Avanti Founder Caitlin Long | Caitlin Long | 16m |
Claim: Avanti is applying for a charter as a Wyoming special purpose depository institution that gives a crypto-industry bank direct Fed access, custody via… | ||
| Could Bitcoin Mining Move to North America? | Alexander Liegl, Frank Holmes, Ethan Vera | 21m |
North American mining claims cheap large-scale power and real projects: a 30 MW Quebec site running S9s and S17s at ~¢4/kWh and active S17 deployment… | ||
| Programmable Money and the Future of Enterprise Blockchain | Todd McDonald, Brian Behlendorf, Sophia Lopez, Steve Cerveny, Martha Bennett, Michael Lonie, Yuichiro Yoshinari, Sunil William Mascarenhas, Matthew Frohling, Srinivasam Sriram, Gert Sylvest, Svenn Valfells, Ken Moore, Mark Kaplan, John Wolpert, Paul Brody | 01h 27m |
Mastercard launches a provenance solution built on a Mastercard proprietary blockchain and a WholeChain traceability stack that tracks seafood across 11 supply… | ||
| The Future of Futures and Options for Crypto Exchanges | Tim McCourt, Kevin Beardsley, Samuel Bankman-Fried | 16m |
CME reports a surge in trading around the halving with 21,000 futures (~105,000 BTC) traded — roughly 3x the 2020 daily average — and about 400 options trades… | ||
| "It's Time to Build": What does it Mean to Build for a New World? | Matthew Roszak, Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Werbach | 13m |
Panel debates Marc Andreessen’s essay and argues the pandemic pressure tests supply chains, money flows, identity and incumbent bailouts, claiming governments… | ||
| Q&A with Michelle Phan and Lolli CEO: Bitcoins, Lolli, Mass Adoption | Michelle Phan | 28m |
Panel describes building Lolli as a chrome extension reward on checkout, citing Honey’s $4B PayPal exit as proof that point‑of‑purchase UX drives adoption… | ||
| Michelle Phan Teaches Makeup Fans About Bitcoin | Michelle Phan | 17m |
YouTube-era beauty influence maps onto bitcoin education with the claim that money’s decentralization parallels YouTube’s decentralization of content; a… | ||
| Here's What Past Pandemics Foretell About the Post-COVID Economy | Niall Ferguson | 20m |
Compares 1918 and 1957 flu and HIV/AIDS to argue COVID lethality likely modest relative to worst pandemics while early models produced a 2.2 million projection… | ||
| Saifedean Ammous on Why Bitcoin Will Replace Central Banks | Saifedean Ammous | 17m |
Argues that fiat systems need constant bailouts and pandemic-era money printing proves it, proposing Bitcoin as a predictable monetary alternative with a fixed… | ||
| Is There Too Much Privacy in Money? With Former U.S. Treasury Secretary | Larry H. Summers | 14m |
Argues that money already has too much privacy, citing the policy move to eliminate the 500 euro note and the scale of offshore laundering and tax evasion as… | ||
| What does the Future of Events Look Like? | Joon Ian Wong | 08m |
When COVID cancels large gatherings the Consensus team pivots and builds a 24-hour non-stop virtual event with live programming, partner workshops (World… | ||
| New Layer One Protocols | Silvio Micali, Dawn Song, Nick Sullivan | 18m |
Cloudflare describes a distributed web gateway that accelerates and caches access to IPFS and Ethereum, plus a hosted API option so companies avoid running… | ||
| Does it Matter What Money is Made of? | Cameron Robertson, Jonathan Harris, Brett Scott | 19m |
Demonstrates a prototype called Kong Cash: paper banknotes with an ultra secure chip that generates private keys and map to an ERC‑20 token on Ethereum… | ||
| Crypto Tokens vs. the United States of America | Robert A. Cohen, Karen Ubell, Joshua Ashley Klayman | 15m |
Panel examines how SAFT-fueled projects raised millions and then face SEC enforcement, noting $1.7 billion refund by Telegram and a $24 million settlement with… | ||
| The Middle East's Compelling Case for Bitcoin Adoption | Meltem Demirors, Nimrod Lehavi | 16m |
Argues that the Middle East drives crypto adoption because failing banks (Lebanon) and currency pressure push people toward bitcoin as a store of value, citing… | ||
| Is Congress Ready to Talk About Crypto? With Congressman Tom Emmer | TOM EMMER | 10m |
Current crisis renews federal focus on crypto and frames scarcity as bitcoin’s key value driver, citing the imminent halving and typical short‑term price… | ||
| Which Crypto Wallet Should You Choose | Bailey Reutzel, Kiara Bickers | 01h 02m |
Breaks down concrete trade-offs: control private keys versus exchange custody, hot vs cold storage, full node vs light/SPV validation, and privacy trade-offs… | ||
| How to Leverage Decentralized Finance in a Financial Crisis | Zubin Koticha, Hart Lambur | 15m |
Explains how DeFi turns legal derivatives into on‑chain contracts enforced by the EVM and economic incentives, with concrete tools: an decentralized options… | ||
| Why Demand for Bitcoin is Highest in Emerging Markets | Ray Yousseff | 08m |
Usage data shows 20% revenue rise and 30–40% signup growth, with Africa and Latin America leading demand; Nigeria’s currency shifts by “over 60%” in four years… | ||
| Crypto as a Movement for a New and Diverse Financial Future | Carlos Acevedo, Tyrone Ross, Karen Bhatia, Susan Oh | 01h 00m |
1.7 billion people lack formal financial services, Bronx poverty hits ~30% and over half are unbanked or underbanked, and small businesses struggle to access… | ||
| Bitcoin 101: Why and How You Should Buy Bitcoin | Jack Tatar, Ron Kochman, Jesus Rodriguez, Jason Law, Ray Youssef, Luis Buenaventura | 01h 29m |
Argues bitcoin is scarce — 21 million supply and the halving cuts miner rewards in half — and shows on-chain evidence (addresses holding >100 BTC and 1 BTC at… | ||
| Get to Know the Binance Boss Mr.CZ | Mr.CZ | 10m |
Binance reports market share gains and a sharp uptick in registrations, nearing its January 2018 peak of 300,000 users per hour in limited windows; customer… | ||
| Q&A with The Chainsmokers: Mantis, YellowHeart, Smart Contracts | The Chainsmokers | 18m |
Yellowheart aims for a Q2 2020 launch but delays depend on live shows; it runs beta testing in small venues and reports faster transaction throughput than… | ||
| Why the Chainsmokers Are Building an Investment Portfolio | The Chainsmokers | 20m |
Builds a ticketing platform called YellowHeart that uses blockchain to tackle a $4 billion scalping market and aims to give artists, promoters and fans control… | ||
| Is it Worth Giving Up Privacy for Public Health Benefits? | Dr.Steven Waterhouse, Nadine Strossen, Harry Haplin | 13m |
Argues that contact tracing tools matter more than the abstract privacy debate: decentralized Bluetooth proximity tracing (EPFL papers adopted by Google and… | ||
| Universal Basic Income: How COVID-19 Reignited the Debate | Jonathan Herzog, Tom Shaughnessy | 12m |
Claims that UBI moved from niche to mainstream after Andrew Yang, with more than 70 representatives backing a $2,000/month emergency stipend, get matched to… | ||
| Polkadot's Battle with Ethereum's Base Layer | Jutta Steiner | 13m |
Polkadot claims to solve scalability, governance and customization by letting teams build full chains with the Substrate framework instead of shoehorning into… | ||
| How a Former Coinbase Lawyer Took the Helm of the U.S. Bank Regulator | Brian Brooks | 12m |
Argues that decentralization reduces single-point failure and that crypto primitives—stablecoins as deposit-like instruments, tokens as payments rails—are… | ||
| Digital Dollar ($) vs. Digital Yuan (¥) | Chris Ciancarlo, Martin Chorzempa | 12m |
A private not‑for‑profit teamed with Accenture launches the Digital Dollar Project as a think tank to design a programmable, tokenized U.S. CBDC that lets… | ||
| Quadratic Funding: Why it Better Funds Public Goods During COVID-19 | Vitalik Buterin, Glen Wyl, Zoë Hitzig | 11m |
Quadratic funding uses square-root aggregation of individual donations (sum the roots, square the sum) to weight matching grants toward projects with the… | ||
| What is Decentralized Finance? Learn At Consensus: Distributed, Unlocked | 01m | |
With the coronavirus pandemic, markets are in turmoil. Central banks are printing money to stabilize the economy, but every dollar loses its value when a new… | ||
| Consensus Distributed Highlights-Here's What You Missed | 05m | |
Virtual Consensus: Distributed summarizes a five day pivot to a fully virtual format with 22,000 attendees and over 300 sessions. Highlights include the real… | ||
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