The Encrypted Economy

On this week's episode of The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Igor Mezic, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbra, and the CTO of MixMode. AI. Igor is a leading innovator ona methodology known as the Koopman Operator, which is commonly used in modern AI. We discuss the fundamentals of the Koopman operator and itsunderlying mathematical theories, followed by a journey through t...

This week on The Encrypted Economy my guest is Ellison Anne Williams, the founder and CEO of Enveil, a Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) start-up. She founded the company in 2016 after spending 12 years at the NSAstudying the technologies that allow Enveil to encrypt data while in use. Ellison Anne has created cutting edge use cases for homomorphic encryption and other PETs which listeners of T...

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy features Gary DeWaal, Special Counsel to Katten Muchen and former Senior Trial Attorney for the CFTC. With former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler about to take over the SEC, there was no better perspective to have on the show than DeWaal’s. We discussed our outlooks for the new direction of the SEC in its handling of digital assets, especially how it relates...

In this episode of the Encrypted Economy, we talk with Kurt Rohloff , Co-founder and CTO of Duality Technologies and one of the pioneers in the homomorphic encryption space. Kurt spent nine years as a senior scientist at Raytheon, where he worked with the military's R&D arm DARPA, which we learned a lot about in this episode. He has a real passion for cryptography, and he loves the people...

This week on the Encrypted Economy, our guest is John Pigott, CEO of ABE Global. ABE is an acronym for A Better Exchange , which is exactly what John has set out to build. John and I met years ago when he responded to a market structure article I had published, which I knew would take a special kind of market nerd to appreciate. John fit the bill, and we instantly hit it off. His appreciation for...

On this week’s episode of the Encrypted Economy, I talked to Paul Clayson, CEO of Agile PQ. Paul has a long and impressive career which includes serving as Chief of Staff to Congressional Representatives and CEO of several different technology companies. In his current role with Agile PQ, Paul is leading cutting edge IOT security solutions catered to our smallest and often most insecure smart devi...

This week on the Encrypted Economy, my guest is Dyann Heward Mills. Named by Business Insider as one of 28 Power Players driving data policy in the EU, Dyann’s thoughts on privacy are critical towards filling in the bigger picture. I was excited to pick her brain on the issues and trends shaping policy in Europe and how they will likely impact the US going forward. We discussed newsworthy events l...

This episode of the Encrypted Economy is the last of 2020.  In it, I take the time to review our first run of episodes and discuss the future of the podcast. I touch on the topics I want to cover in 2021 and the great guests that we have lined up for the beginning of the year. Stay tuned to the Encrypted Economy for more!  Topics Covered   Our Episodes to Date  Joel Revill – Two Ocean Trust  David...

On the latest episode of the Encrypted Economy, I was excited to talk to Felix Shipkevich of Shipkevich Law. Felix is an expert in commodities regulation and money services business licensing with a focus on how these areas apply to digital assets. His insights into the importance of the legal classification of digital assets arecritical towards understanding the US’ fractured regulatory environme...

On this episode of the Encrypted Economy, I was excited to have Matt Walsh, the co-founder of Castle Island Ventures, and co-host of the On the Brink podcast on the show. I've been following both Matt and his co-founder Nic Carter for a few months now, and I've been very impressed with their thoughtfulness in the blockchain and digital asset space, as well as their investment selection....

This week in the Encrypted Economy explore the foundations of how the ability to secure data fundamentally changes the very economics of our society and the business, legal and technical forces shaping that. To some, introducing concepts like Secure Multi Party Computations and Homomorphic Encryption sounds like it is simply academic research or just asecurity discussion...but its so much more. Bo...

Travis Schwab, CEO of Eventus on Market Surveillance for Centralized Digital Asset Markets     In this episode of the Encrypted Economy, I spoke with Travis Schwab, CEO and Founder of Eventus, a RegTech platform for compliance, market surveillance, risk management and AML serving both traditional and digital asset classes.  Eventus grabbed a bit of attention recently when they announced that BitMe...

This is the first episode of "The Encrypted Economy" where Eric Hess, your host, answers the what, why and who questions around this new weekly podcast show focusing on the business, laws, regulation, and security of our most valuable data, including digital assets, proprietary data and personally identifiable information.  

In this podcast, I spoke with Joel Revill Founder and CEO of Two Ocean Trust, a Wyoming Chartered Trust Company offering wealth management services to high-net-worth individuals and family offices.  We discussed the headline making no action letter it received from the Wyoming Division of Banking recognizing it as a qualified custodian for digital assets under the Adviser’s Act.  Although more sig...

In our third episode of the Encrypted Economy, we spoke with David Harris, co-founder of Mantenu, a consumer friendlily platform for streamlining enterprise management and compliance.   David discussed how he became interested in privacy after have a long career running financial companies.  We spoke about the ethics of data privacy and the tradeoffs that can occur with rapid adoption of emerging...