#82 Simon Dingle & Steven Boykey Sidley – Beyond Bitcoin

Simon Dingle is an author, broadcaster and entrepreneur with extensive experience in cryptocurrency, including being on the founding teams of several fintech firms, including cryptocurrency exchange Luno and open banking provider Curve. Steven Boykey Sidley has worked extensively in technology and finance and is an award-winning novelist, playwright and columnist. Buy Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks:https://amzn.to/3K98EXB⏺️ Voics: https://www.voics.co/🎙️ Podcast University: https://bit.ly/3Dqip2S🎤 Podcast Accelerator: https://bit.ly/3f1ir81📞 Schedule Free Call: https://bit.ly/3GsNyTU(00:00) Introduction(03:32) The use of bitcoin in the Ukraine/Russia war (07:37) The narrative of crypto from central banks & financial institutions(10:29) Bad actors operating in TradFi and DeFi (12:57) What caught your interest in bitcoin and decentralised finance?  (17:00) Trust in the bitcoin network versus traditional payment providers  (21:02) Gaining layers of trust in financial institutions vs. DeFi(25:15) Use cases of DeFI: decentralised exchanges  (32:42) What are the market abuse risks of decentralised exchanges?  (37:13) Poor user experience & user interface in DeFi use cases (39:43) How do you solve the scalability issues of ethereum?  (42:10) The scalability trilemma by Vitalik Buterin(46:32) Ethereum's roadmap and meeting its 2022 deadlines (52:04) Will bitcoin & ethereum continue to dominate market share?(56:05) Gold & bitcoin's decoupling from equity markets (59:34) Will NFTs survive during a bear market? (01:02:33) The principles of NFTs and DAOs (01:04:40) What is the outcome of the metaverse?  (01:10:33) The hype of the metaverse and long term view (01:12:20) Central banks policy and CBDC's Please leave a review:- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36RrL9Y- Apple: https://apple.co/3uCwViFSocials:- YouTube: https://bit.ly/3HleVy2- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3EE3FuG- Apple: https://apple.co/32ArW7D- LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- TikTok: https://bit.ly/314iZD6Services:- Career mentoring: https://bit.ly/3FCS3JA- Podcast consulting: https://bit.ly/3aYzm5w- Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3JqwkXASupport the show