DEX in the City: Is Now the 'Perfect Time to Launch a Crypto Scam'?
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But the average American feels like they were rubbed. They were told that this is gonna be a force for financial freedom, and all it is is just online sports betting without a regulator. That's stupid, and everyone in crypto should be ashamed of that.
Hi, all. Welcome to Dex in the City. I may look different today because I am not Catherine Kirkpatrick, but we are still Dex in the City where the wallets are cold and the takes are hot. KK is out today, and I don't have her gorgeous red locks, but I'm gonna try and fill her shoes. I'm your temporary host, Jesse Brooks from Rubik Capital, and luckily, I'm here with my cohost, V. Today, filling the shoes of KK is our wonderful guest, Peter von Volkenberg from Point Center. He does not need any introduction, so I won't do it. I'm sure you all know about all the amazing work that he's done to pro
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Okay. We're back. Let's get going. So first, the lay of the land so you just know what to expect today. First, we're gonna give you the play by play on market structure and let Peter sort of do his thing, walk through what he's been working on, and ask him a bunch of questions about it, maybe challenge him a little bit. And then we're gonna jump into what this means for the DOJ, and then hopefully hit on some Super Bowl crypto fun here at what Vee thought about the halftime show, and then maybe get to AI yeah. Don't worry. Get to AI agent security if we have time. So, Vee, I'm gonna turn it ov
So cool. Thanks. So, Peter, you've been at CoinCenter for a while now. We're so happy to have you on today. You're actually, I think, one of the first people I started following when I joined the industry, like, over four years ago, and I've honestly learned so much from you over the years. And I got to know you a little bit better because you were really helpful in the Samurai Wallet case where the developers there were charged by the DOJ for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter and conspiracy to commit money laundering. And they're both now in prison, so we'll talk a little
Thanks, Vee. That was very kind of you. I I've been working in this space for eleven years. So Coin Center was founded in 2014. It's actually my first job out of law school, my first, like, big job out of law school. And at the time, you know, there wasn't really a mature voice explaining and educating and representing these open source technologies in Washington DC, and CoinCenter's mission was to fill that void, was to be a voice for the technology, which at the time was, you know, primarily Bitcoin. That's really all we got questions about when we would go into a congressional office or int
Somehow, this is not the first time that Barlow has come up on this podcast.
Good. He should he should've come up on every podcast.
I guess there's something good there. I have a question for you on the sort of CoinCenter foundation and thesis because we are gonna get into AI agents. We talk about it all the time here. When you guys talk about prote
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