‘œbitcoin does form the dominant position, it has the most hash power, it is the currency in terms of design, decentralisation, or ability for governments or corporate actors to control it, it is the strongest, therefor everything relies on bitcoin’s survival.’
‘” Jeremy Welch
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Saturday 27th October
Company: Casa
Role: Founder (Jeremy Welch), Strategy (Alena Vranova)
As the value of bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies increase, custody has become an increasingly important and sophisticated part of self-sovereignty. The freedom and ease at which cryptocurrencies can be transferred also makes them a honeypot for hackers, coupled with immutable records, there is little recourse should your funds be stolen.
People hold their cryptocurrencies in a variety of wallets, from paper to hardware but these still expose vulnerabilities. From lost seed phrases to personal attacks, there is a demand in the market for more sophisticated custody solutions, and Casa is leading the way in developing the space.
With their central three-of-five management solution, Casa has targeted those with significant portfolios, but with the release of their bitcoin full node and lightning node they are opening up options to more customers.
In this interview, I talk with Casa founder, Jeremy Welch and strategy lead, Alena Vranova (previously Trezor) about how the Casa solution works, the challenges of managing custody and why design is central to everything they do.
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“We have to learn from history and we want people to understand to not forget about history, what lessons we have to learn, and to make a new impact on society.”
‘”Fang Zheng
“If the hope for Google in 2010 was, if we pull out of this market, maybe it’ll encourage them [China] to reform. If that was the hope, that has definitely not come to pass and if anything the opposite has happened.”
‘”Megha Rajagopalan
“If the Chinese government comes to me and says ‘hand me over a user’s data and everything you have on them’, I have nothing on them because Graphite doesn’t have any servers, doesn’t have a database and the user stores all of the data himself and is encrypted. So even if I could point a government to where the data is located, it would be encrypted and the user is literally the only person that can decrypt it.”
‘”Justin Hunter
Welcome to Season Two of Distributed Dialogues. This season was inspired by the Human Rights Foundation’s Oslo Freedom Forum, focusing on the intersection between human rights and decentralized technology. In each episode we’ll tell stories where basic human rights have been jeopardized, then present ways in which decentralized technology might serve as a tool for overcoming these challenges.
This episode is called ‘œThe Great Firewall’; in it, we bring you the story of how, for better or worse, technological innovations and the rule of law have influenced China’s cultural present and past.
Distributed Dialogues is a BTC Media-produced podcast on the Let’s Talk bitcoin Network. Visit www.letstalkbitcoin.com for more engaging podcasts and follow us on twitter @TheLTBNetwork.
This episode is sponsored by: Distributed Health 2018
Music by David Berges via Pond5.
