Following up from the last batch, below are some of the public-facing activities I have been involved with the past couple of months.

Op-ed:

• Settlement Risks Involving Public Blockchains at TabbFORUM

Public presentations / panels:

• BNY Mellon Blockchain Day on January 28, 2016 in Jersey City (recap)
• FIA/SIFMA Asset Management Derivatives Forum on February 5, 2016 in Laguna Beach
  • Panel: “Disruptive Technology”
• Fuqua School of Business, Finance 898: Innovation and Cryptoventures on February 26, 2016
  • Guest workshop: Discussing the distributed ledger landscape

• Wharton/SIFMA Securities Industry Institute (SII) in Philadelphia on March 10, 2016
  • Flex Core course: “Block Chain Technology – The Hype, The Potential and The Fundamentals“
• Alliance Bernstein Financial Summit held in Boston, March 9, 2016
  • Panel: “The Bitcoin vs. Permissioned Blockchain Debate”
• Korean Financial News in Seoul on April 6, 2016
  • Presentation: “What will finance look like with a blockchain?”

Quoted:

• Blockchain: wisdom of crowds begins in blind competition from Global Capital
• Can an Arcane Crypto Ledger Replace Uber, Spotify and AirBnB? from Backchannel
• Bankers Weigh Blockchain Challenges at BNY Mellon Event from CoinDesk
• From Toxic Assets to Digital Currency: Barry Silbert’s Bold Bet from American Banker (p. 5)
• Have We Reached Peak Blockchain Hype? from CoinDesk
• Industry Speaks Out As CoinDesk’s Text Size Turmoil Continues from CoinDesk

Citations:

• Bitcoin Mining Decentralization via Cost Analysis by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel and Can Kisagun
• Corporate Governance and Blockchains by David Yermack
• Beyond Bitcoin: Issues in Regulation Blockchain Transactions by Trevor I. Kiviat
• Blockchain: A Fundamental Shift for Financial Services Institutions by Capgemini (p. 9)
• Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial Considerations from the IMF (p. 20)
• “Smart Contracts” report from CoinDesk (p.5 and p.11)
• The Hutchins Center Explains: How blockchain could change the financial system (part 1) from The Brookings Institution
• Bank consortium R3CEV successfully tests Bitcoin tech in traditional bank transactions from The Stack
• Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain by the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (p. 36)
• CoinDesk’s Most Influential People in Bitcoin and Blockchain 2015 (co-honorable mention)
• Thought Bitcoin Was Dead? 2016 Is the Year It Goes Big from Wired