Tokenised Securities & NFTs on Bitcoin with Adam Back & Samson Mow
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“You can see that something that would normally be controlled and limited resale or retail-discouraged becomes a giftable, freely-tradeable, build your own market, build your own app on top of it if you must, you can do anything with it.”
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Location: Remotely
Date: Sunday 29th August
Company: Blockstream
Role: Co-Founder/CEO, CSO
In 2017, thousands of ICOs flooded crypto markets. There was a lot of excitement around ICOs at the time, but they turned out to be largely scams and cash grabs, with most likely being illegal securities offerings.
Blockstream is changing that by bringing to market regulated securities in tokenised form, and it's all being built on Bitcoin using the Liquid Network, creating some exciting new possibilities for capital allocation.
Liquid is a federated sidechain built on top of Bitcoin, allowing assets like securities and NFTs to be issued and traded quickly, cheaply, and confidentially.
So what is the potential for NFTs and tokenised securities built on Bitcoin layers?
In this interview, I talk to Adam Back and Samson Mow, Blockstream's CEO & Chief Strategy Officer. We discuss the future of tokenised securities, practical NFT use cases, and decentralising hashpower ownership.
TIMESTAMPS
00:02:53: Introductions
00:06:42: Tokenised securities
00:09:12: The Liquid Network explained
00:12:23: Onboarding to Liquid
00:13:35: Purchasing Liquid Bitcoin
00:14:53: The Liquid Network UX
00:19:19: All about the Security tokens
00:25:36: The whitelisting process
00:31:22: An exchange for the Liquid market
00:41:11: Blockstream Mining Note (BMN)
00:52:03: Bitcoin mining
00:53:06: NTFs on Liquid
01:00:51: Tickets as NFTs
01:04:23: Final comments
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Connect with Samson:
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Connect with Blockstream:
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Mentioned in the interview:
Bitfinex launches security token platform regulated in Kazakhstan
INX: Regulated Trading Platform for Crypto, Security Tokens, etc.
Blockstream Reveals Massive Bitcoin Mining Facilities, Fidelity An Early Customer
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