Shin'ichiro Matsuo's Criticisms of Bitcoin, Mining Incentives and Crypto Protocols

In this episode we speak with Shin’ichiro Matso, a research Professor at Georgetown and a leading authority in cryptographic protocols. Matso speaks on many subjects, including security economics and its relationship to crypto economics, who has the incentives in blockchain and criticisms of Bitcoin protocol.

 

Major topics

Criticisms of Blockchain Protocols  Security Economics and its relationship to Crypto Economics Incentivizing Crypto Minors Sallows Consortium BCF Network  Countries that are ahead in blockchain

Biography

Research Professor at Georgetown Cryptographer Inventing Protocols A leading authority in Cryptographic Protocols  MIT Media Labs (liaison between MIT and Japan)