1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018

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CharlieDigital · 2022-11 · Recommendation

> Regulators have been slow and ineffective when it comes to crypto, which has lent itself to the crypto v SEC narrative, but all the adults in the room known there is a need for some regulation It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. Mainly because of the outsized lobbying power of the wealthy folks backing VC's backing crypto. Clamp down on crypto with regulations and many, many wealthy political contributors are going to be pissed off by stifling growth. Don't clamp down and you get the situation we're in now where everyone is losing their shirts. What about the middle ground? I think we can only now talk about it because enough wealthy people also lost big chunks of their investment in these last few months. BTW, despite whatever implied connections to FTX Gary Gensler has, his series of talks at MIT on blockchain[0] technologies leads me to believe that there are few people better equipped to navigate this from a political perspective. [0] [VIDEO]

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jazzyjackson · 2021-05 · Recommendation

Well at least take a look around and see if it's interesting to you. I've been enjoying a playlist of blockchain lectures by Gary Gensler, current chair of the SEC. Lecture 6 is smart contracts with Lawrence Lessig guest speaking. [0]/[1] I've been avoiding smart contracts since hearing about hacks like these (similar to the Multisig Parity Bug years ago, neglected to initialize, let someone else become the owner and kill the contract) - but I've been educating myself the past week and find that there are really cool things that can be done, maybe cooler a year or 15 in the future when ETH finally gets its fees under control. As a programmer, you'd probably be interested to see the ethereum virtual machine's "assembly" language [2], I'm pretty impressed with how little code underlies all these ERC20 tokens. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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bogomipz · 2022-11 · Reference

Yes and before becoming Chair at the SEC, Professor Gary Gensler taught a course at MIT called "Blockchain And Money."[1][2] Given that both SBF's parents are Professors at Stanford, this couple were very much ivory tower children. It would really be something if Gary Gensler was part of the SEC probe looking into the FTX collapse.[3] It's practically a Hollywood screenplay that almost writes itself. 1. [LINK] 2. [VIDEO] 3. [LINK]

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