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Bitcoin is Savings Technology
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The bedrock of DeFi must be high quality collateral. That's why Stacks is building DeFi on Bitcoin, the highest quality collateral on Earth. The simplest financial use-case is saving and lending. This transforms Bitcoin into a savings technology. Listen to this blue-sky session on a world underpinned by BTC savings.
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I started the Stacks project and I'm the CEO of Trust Machines. The mission of Trust Machines is to build the largest ecosystem of Bitcoin applications and the underlying technologies. My work brings apps and smart contracts to Bitcoin. Earlier, I received a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University.
View the profileSince she first joined the cryptocurrency industry in 2015, Ms. Demirors has been actively managing and leading investment firms; supporting and advising founders building early stage companies; and leveraging her experience and network to accelerate the growth of the crypto asset class and the firms developing it. In her role at CoinShares, Ms. Demirors oversees strategy, and focuses on developing private funds and investment vehicles to provide institutional investors with thematic, risk-managed exposure to the emerging crypto asset ecosystem. In addition, she serves as the managing director of the firm's US operations. From 2015 until 2018, Ms. Demirors led the Development team at Digital Currency Group. Previously, Ms. Demirors was a strategy consultant in Deloitte's Oil & Gas practice. Ms. Demirors advocates for a number of industry initiatives via her participation in the World Economic Forum Blockchain Council. She hosts a weekly podcast that explores the intersection of finance, history, and technology, called "What Grinds my Gears," and the annual "Crypto Springs" conference in Palm Springs. Ms. Demirors holds a BA in Mathematical Economics from Rice University, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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