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We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry\u2026 and throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes!<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This week, our 6 Questions go to <\/b>Andrew Levine, CEO of Koinos Group, which is focused on accelerating the transition to a more decentralized future by helping entrepreneurial developers, entrepreneurs and enterprises build disruptive blockchain-based solutions.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Andrew leads a team of industry veterans accelerating decentralization through accessible blockchain technology. Their foundational product is Koinos, a feeless blockchain with infinite upgradeability and a proof-of-burn consensus.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n There are too many general-purpose blockchains that are effectively competing with Ethereum (and one another) in a race to the bottom on fees. Only so many of them can survive.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n CBDCs, in the eyes of many, will combine the best of both worlds: the internet-nativeness of cryptocurrencies and the confidence of state-backed assets (and their military might). If the world is going to get <\/span>one<\/span><\/i> currency, then the odds are it will be a state-backed currency (a CBDC). If the world is going to get many currencies, then people will have many options on the spectrum between permissionless and permissioned.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I do not. It is the on-ramp into the crypto economy as a result of its age and the depth of its markets, and it is the flight-to-safety asset people use when they lose confidence in more speculative crypto assets.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t. He\u2019s just some human who assembled a bunch of existing ideas into an innovative solution.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n No. There\u2019s too much tax revenue potential.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n1 \u2014 What kind of consolidation do you expect to see in the crypto industry in 2022?<\/h4>\n
2 \u2014 If the world is getting a new currency, will it be led by CBDCs, a permissionless blockchain like Bitcoin, or a permissioned chain such as Diem?<\/h4>\n
3 \u2014 Do you subscribe to the idea of Bitcoin as a means of payment, as a store-of-value, as both\u2026 or as neither?<\/h4>\n
4 \u2014 Does it matter if we ever figure out who Satoshi really is or was? Why, or why not?<\/h4>\n
5 \u2014 Do you think governments will try and kill crypto?<\/h4>\n
6 \u2014 If you didn\u2019t need sleep, what would you do with the extra time?<\/h4>\n