Ed Felten

Ed Felten

Ed Felten is co-founder and Chairman of Offchain Labs. He is also the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and the founding Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, and he serves as a member of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. In 2015-2017 he worked in the White House as Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer. He has published more than 150 papers in the research literature and three books. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the ACM. In 2004, Scientific American magazine named him to its list of fifty worldwide science and technology leaders.

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Ed Felton joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the new technology called blockchain is really just about its ability to deliver on one of the oldest human institutions – trust.
Ed Felton joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the issues surrounding the proliferation of cryptocurrency and blockchain as it poses a potential threat to sovereign governments and their currency.
Ed Felton joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why blockchain – outside of cryptocurrency – has a very useful and varied life and future of its own, possibly becoming ubiquitous across the economy.