After working on one of the most ambitious corporate-backed digital currency projects at Facebook, Christian Catalini has strong views on how money should move. In this episode, we explore Bitcoin as infrastructure, lessons from building blockchains at a tech giant, and the case for open financial networks.
with @ccatalini @rhackett
Today we’re talking about who — if anyone — should own the rails of global money.
Our guest is Christian Catalini, cofounder and chief strategy officer of the global payments startup Lightspark, and a former architect of Meta’s shuttered Libra project — one of the most ambitious attempts to create a corporate-backed digital currency.
In this episode, we talk about…
Christian also wrote a feature for us expanding on his argument, which you can read by subscribing to a16z crypto on Substack. Check it out and let us know what you think.
This episode is part of a special series of interviews we recorded live at our Founders Summit in October.
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