Jill Gunter Talks Crypto's Role in Emerging Markets and Building Scaling Solution Espresso Systems

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak to Jill Gunter, the co-founder and chief strategy officer at scaling solution Espresso Systems and a venture partner at Slow Ventures.

She was trading emerging markets debt with Goldman Sachs as I was writing about it at Bloomberg News. She became interested in Bitcoin because of its potential to help those in corrupt or repressive regimes. So how did it all start for her?

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro to Jill
0:00:31 Jills intro to crypto
0:03:17 The Argentine debt crisis
0:05:40 The need for permissionless finances
0:08:45 Crypto in Ukraine and Russian
0:17:09 Human nature to evade control
0:19:29 Sponsor
0:20:00 Section 2 Transition to blockchain
0:23:07 Is crypto being mass adopted now?
0:28:24 Sponsor
0:28:46 Section 3 Espresso Systems
0:34:20 Separate blockchain or built on Ethereum?
0:36:32 How does it work?
0:38:49 ERC20 Assets?
0:40:05 Caped assets?
0:47:26 A comfort blanket for traf-fi to de-fi?
0:51:34 Sponsor
0:52:08 The consequences of tech advancement
0:57:53 Thoughts on the market
1:02:00 What makes Jill Defiant

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