Cardano, Crypto, and the Developing World: Interview with Charles Hoskinson, Part 1

Harvard International Review ^ | 10/06/2021 | Justin Qi

[bagadonutz]

3 part interview with Charles Hoskinson.

excerpt from Part 3:

A number of lawmakers likely write off crypto as just a right-wing techno-libertarian fantasy. How you might appeal to policymakers on the left like Elizabeth Warren and Janet Yellen, who have often publicly criticized cryptocurrencies from a variety of angles?

The philosophical issue that I think is very difficult for people in certain areas of the left. If you are of the belief that everything needs to be controlled by a regulator, a bureaucracy, or the heavy hand of government, you're always going to be uncomfortable with a technology that says people should be in control of their own lives. That they should be their own bank, own their own identity, own their own data, and so forth. That's a difficult situation; it's a circle that’s hard to square. I don't understand why they take this opinion overall that it's just a bunch of cowboys and we need to regulate this thing, control this thing to do for the greater good. Now, I think much of that comes from a lack of understanding about the technology.

[bagadonutz]

Charles Hoskinson is one of the original creators of Ethereum.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

His ideas are very interesting. I’ve only learned of him recently. He is very forward thinking technology wise with use cases for Blockchain.

[struggle]

I had to translate a Japanese forum on Cardano and it really is fascinating. They’re using it in third world as a substitute for cash for investors to fund third-world and African start-ups. It’s probably one of the big up-and-comer cryptocurrencies and if there’s a parallel economy that splits off from liberal cash-based, card-based, and bank-based funding, this is going to be the method.

[Rural_Michigan]

Crypto and Blockchain is the future. As inevitable as the internet.

[NoLibZone]

Go Shiba go!

[TNoldman]

Cardano