Consensus 2021
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights | Ray Dalio, Larry Summers, Tom Brady, Kevin O’Leary | 06m |
Poll of participants finds only 5% say a US CBDC will never arrive, yet the claim here is CBDC unlikely and that bitcoin’s success could itself become an… | ||
| Dfinity's Internet Computer Promises to Reshape the Internet as We Know It | Dominic Williams | 06m |
Dfinity’s Internet Computer launches after five years with a reported quarter‑billion dollar ecosystem program and a public mainnet claim of the world’s… | ||
| What's Driving the Shift Towards ESG Investing? | Mark McDivitt | 05m |
ESG investment growth hits a tipping point driven by climate urgency and the claim that nonfinancial metrics now correlate with returns, but data trust is the… | ||
| Filecoin in Focus: What Its Leaders Want You to Know About the Storage-Focused Project | Marta Belcher | 10m |
Filecoin builds an incentive layer for IPFS so files persist on other people’s hardware, claims a successful October launch and a live network with over four… | ||
| Nebula Genomics Lets You Turn Your DNA Into an NFT | Kamal Obbad, Anne Fauvre-Willis | 12m |
Nebula Genomics, Oasis Labs and Akon’s Acorn launch a project minting George Church’s genome as the “world’s first” genomic NFT to let people control and… | ||
| Can DeFi and Traditional Banks Co-Exist? | Mariana Gomez de la Villa | 06m |
Claims that cooperation yields the “best of both worlds,” supported by an Aave case study where ING ran data collaboration and knowledge sessions to inspect… | ||
| Cathie Wood Blames Bitcoin's Drop on 'ESG Movement' | Cathie Wood | 05m |
Claims that the bitcoin pullback is driven by the ESG movement and high‑profile tweets about crypto’s energy use, pointing to a short‑term selloff after Elon… | ||
| Says He's a 'Big Believer' in Crypto | Tom Brady | 05m |
Claims include having bought crypto and checking token prices almost daily, noting a coach has been into it for eight or nine months and calling crypto a big… | ||
| Co-Founder on Cuban's Investment: Mark is a Yield Farmer | Sandeep Nailwal | 07m |
Claims that MATIC is up almost 10,000% year‑to‑date and that Mark Cuban actively invests and uses Polygon for NFTs and small‑scale yield farming with LP… | ||
| US-based CBDC Is 'Never' Going to Happen | Brian Brooks | 08m |
Asserts a US CBDC is effectively never coming, citing a poll where only 5% pick "never" but arguing the real-world trend is private innovation not a Fed… | ||
| Launching a Bitcoin Node into Space | Zee Zhang | 05m |
SpaceChain is sending bitcoin and ethereum nodes aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and installs hardware on the ISS so a private key stored on ISS acts as one… | ||
| Diem Scales Back, Sets Eyes on a US-Backed Stablecoin | Christian Catalini | 10m |
Project shifts from a multi-currency Libra idea to a single U.S. dollar stablecoin called Diem Dollar, relocates headquarters from Switzerland to the U.S., and… | ||
| Joins Hedera Hashgraph's Governing Council | Dr. Leemon Baird | 07m |
Hedera Hashgraph says it has surpassed 1.2B transactions and runs a fast hashgraph ABFT ledger that targets high throughput (steady ~50 TPS, spikes into the… | ||
| Using Blockchain to Measure Climate Change and Emissions | Martin Wainstein, Massamba Thioye | 13m |
Argues for a planetary carbon ledger layered on the existing UNFCCC national inventories to enable nested accounting across individuals, companies, cities and… | ||
| Real Estate NFTs are Here | Michael Arrington | 06m |
A Kyiv apartment gets auctioned with an NFT minted on the Proppy platform, the same site used to buy it in 2017 with ETH and a smart contract; ownership sits… | ||
| Founder Talks 'Green Farming' and Future IPO | Bram Cohen | 17m |
Claims Chia uses proof of space and time so farming runs off ordinary hard‑drive space, not custom rigs, and rewards track space contributed. Network tools… | ||
| Analyzing SEC Commissioner's Crypto Comments | Hester Peirce | 06m |
Claim that the SEC needs to modernize custody rules for crypto and that advisers bear a fiduciary responsibility to understand the asset class, with current… | ||
| Say They're Spearheading a 'Green Mining' Initiative | Michael Saylor, Elon Musk | 08m |
A newly announced bitcoin mining council commits miners to publish current and planned renewable usage and to set a baseline for energy usage transparency… | ||
| Crypto Markets Outlook | Sam Bankman-Fried | 16m |
Claims that a cascade of $20 billion of liquidations drives the crash, then mostly clears so markets stabilize; leverage concentrates in thousands of… | ||
| Bitcoin Is Here to Stay; What Wall Street Is Looking For in ESG Investing | Kevin O’Leary | 09m |
Claims that under 1% of institutions hold crypto and that institutional flows drive price appreciation; miners are raising $100–$300M to build low‑carbon… | ||
| Hosts Weigh in on Day 1 | Christine Lee, Lawrence Lewittin, Emily Parker | 15m |
Forecasts link heavy money printing, rising debt and possible capital controls to long-term currency weakness and conflict, with a blunt disclosure that owns… | ||
| Launches Today! | Aaron Stanley | 12m |
Consensus 2021 runs as a virtual multi-day program with themed three-hour explorations (China, CBDC, institutional asset management) plus hands-on “unlocked”… | ||
| Invests $15M in AirTM to Boost Financial Access in Latin America | Denelle Dixon | 08m |
The Stellar Foundation commits $15M investment into AirTM wallet, a Mexico-based peer-to-peer exchange that connects local wallets and anchors to the Stellar… | ||
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