Former Fed Official & Stablecoin Expert On The Future Of Money | Robert Bench
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What's up, everybody? Right before we get into the show here, just wanna give a quick shout out for our next BlockWorks conference. Permissionless four is happening June, and it's a crypto conference all for the developers and builders in the space. We're gonna be hosting it right in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, and it's gonna be a ton of fun. There's gonna be a lot of fantastic speakers, and the whole Ford guidance crew is gonna be there. Myself, Tyler, Quinn, we're gonna be doing a live roundup. There's gonna be some wicked community events. Come meet us, have a beer with us, come see so
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Yeah. Super excited. So skim through there your your background, but I would love to just get everybody up to speed and do a bit of deep dive on some of your your different, phases of your career and some of the insights and lessons and takeaways that you've derived there. So let's rewind all the way back to Circle, which is obviously very much in the news these days as the IPO'd just last week, and it went exceptionally well, which is fantastic. And, yeah, I would just love to hear a bit about what it was like working there. You led a lot of the regulatory framework of Circle, which led on to
You know, I'm really excited for the team. Right? This has been over a decade in the making. And the couple of things I think about on the Circle side is how directionally correct Jeremy and Sean were on can money move on new networks and what does it take to do so. And they took a pretty long path to get there between CirclePay, Circle's BTC activities, the trade desk, Clonex, But they were always directly directionally correct that money can move better with less than two meteors. So that you know, that's really, really incredible story there. I'm happy to talk about that. Another thing is t
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So, I mean, the the start with it was leaving circle, and then that was hard because we we had built such a great team at circle. And working for Jeremy and Sean was such a unique learning experience. I think anyone who's worked for Jeremy and Sean would agree. But we had a really interesting opportunity where at Circle, we were a global company at that point, and we had multiple offices around the world, and we were at the cutting edge of digital asset exploration. And one thing we kept hearing about was the national interest of the Chinese government in building an e c n y. And that more tha
know, when you when you characterize all that, I hear a process of some very passionate and knowledgeable people that wanted to purely explore technical feasibility of a very innovative technology that is distributed leverage of blockchain. And you you got pulled into this world where you came from the private stablecoin side of things, and now you're exploring, you know, let's just call it, yeah, public stablecoins or CBDCs. And as you started to hit that there, and I wanna tiptoe around this, but, obviously, just the I'm I'm sure people are listening to this. And when you they
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