Crypto Policy Symposium 2022 Videos are Up – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
The Crypto Policy Symposium, organized by Stephen Diehl, Martin Walker and Darren Tseng, was held on Monday September 5th and Tuesday September 6th, and was broadcast over Zoom to an estimated audience of (I believe) between 1,000 and 2,000. [Crypto Policy Symposium]
The intended audience was regulators, bureaucrats and politicians – and they were very interested.
The organizers decided that this conference needed to lead to more action against technologies used as poor excuses for predatory practices. So they’re starting a new US-based 501(c)4 foundation: the Center for Emerging Technology Policy. [CETP]
Stephen and Darren, with Jan Akalin, have also published a book: Pops the crypto bubble. Available as a gorgeous paperback or hardback, or it’s free on Kindle Unlimited! [Amazon UK, Amazon US]
Stephen manned the Zoom desk with only a few sound bites. But if you missed anything, you’ll be happy to know that all the videos are up on the YouTube channel! [YouTube]
Here are the sessions in original running order:
Monday:
- Conference opening
- Monday keynote: Representative Brad Sherman
- Are regulators and regulations fit to meet the crypto challenge? —Ruth Wandhöfer, Stephen Diamond, John Reed Stark
- Crypto and Predator Inclusion – Martin Walker, Nadine Chabrier, Tonantzin Carmona, Mario Gomez, Fred Abrahams
- Crypto innovations: what are the risks? — Martin Walker, Edmund Schuster, Kelvin Low, Jared Bibler, Natasha de Teran
- The Cryptovirus: Narrative Economics in the Golden Age of Fraud — Izabella Kaminska, Jacob Silverman, Ben McKenzie
- Cryptopolitics – Izabella Kaminska, Vili Lehdonvirta, Ian Grigg
- Is crypto the new internet? — Rory Cellan-Jones, David Gerard, Keith Pritchard
Tuesday:
- Tuesday keynote: Alex Sobel MP
- The Environmental Impact of Crypto — Martin Walker, Dr. Pete Howson, Alex de Vries, Bob Seeman
- Crypto, Blockchain and Education — Sebastian Hervas-Jones, Roxana Marachi, Nicholas Weaver
- Cryptopia: land of the promised vs. virtual — Emily Nicole, Oscar Salguero, David Gerard, Molly White
- Football, Crypto and NFTs — Jemima Kelly, Joey D’Urso, Geoffrey Huntley, JP Rangaswami
- Crypto Contagion – Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Carol Alexander, Frances Coppola, Amy Castor
- Conference closing and special announcement — Darren Tseng, Jan Akalin
Afterwards there was a reception, where Jan, Darren, Stephen and Martin held a panel and took questions from the audience. [YouTube]
Jan, Darren, Stephen. Martin
