#59 - Steven McClurg: Decentralization & the Institutional Adoption of Crypto

Our guest on Today’s podcast is Steven McClurg, CIO and Co-Founder of Valkyrie Investment. 

In today’s episode of the Somi Arian Podcast Steve and I discuss the role of VCs in the Blockchain space, the institutional adoption of Crypto and whether decentralization should become a value that we adopt in society and whether DAOs could disrupt the VC model. 

Steven has some great perspectives on these topics which I think you will also enjoy hearing.

 

Outline ⤵️

00:00 Intro

00:46 Steven’s background and journey into blockchain technology

05:06 Is decentralization the future?

09:08 Defining and regulating tokens 

13:37 Lack of unanimity between countries when it comes to crypto 

17:07 Emerging markets impacting the blockchain technology

21:46 DAO and VC funds

27:15 Should startups tokenize?

34:05 Crypto ecosystem is encouraging people to learn financial literacy

35:29 Why Bitcoin?

36:28 Outro

 

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