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Demelza Hays is a crypto researcher, asset manager, entrepreneur and is teaching at the University of Liechtenstein courses on blockchain technology. She installed the first Bitcoin ATM in Liechtenstein and is currently conducting a research on the correlation between hashrate and the price of Bitcoin. She is the Co-Author of the quarterly Cryptoresearch Report and asset manager at Incrementum AG.
We had a fascinating discussion about a variety of topics around money, wealth, digital assets and cryptocurrencies. And by the way: she thinks that the next Bitcoin bull market as begun.
- How cryptocurrencies could support women in India
- Obstacles for the lightning network as a micropayment method
- Relationship of hashrate and Bitcoins price
- Robust optimization for cryptocurrencies
- Decentralized stablecoin backed by Bitcoin
- Maybe the next bull market has started
- Large investors are not ready yet
- Electricity providers getting into mining and investing
- Security of Bitcoin
- Facebook-Coin
- Personal advice for small investors
- The problem with utility tokens
“As a money we want stability.” – Demelza Hays
“I want to see competition in money. I think that is how we are going to produce the highest-quality money that humans have ever seen.” – Demelza Hays
“I am not interested in a money that has a single point of failure.” – Demelza Hays
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Recording Date: March 22, 2019Location: Vienna
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