Creating Accessibility in the Global Financial System with Bill Barhydt of Abra

In this episode, Jay speaks with Bill Barhydt, CEO of Abra, a simple platform on a mission to enable millions of crypto holders to maximize the potential of their crypto assets. As a longtime technology pioneer, Bill shares what makes bitcoin fundamentally different, why he built Abra and what the transition to Web3 will look like. He also discusses the path to achieving global decentralization of finance and how FTX’s grave mistakes could impact the community. 

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Bill Barhydt’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billbar/

About Guest

 

Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, a premier digital asset financial services company.  Bill gave the first ever TED talk on Bitcoin in 2012 when Bitcoin was trading at $5. In 2015, he created the world's first synthetic dollar stablecoin based on Bitcoin. Bill is a keynote speaker and has presented at over 100 conferences, including The World Economic Forum, The Milken Institute, Tony Robbins Platinum Summit, The Mobile World Congress, TED, Consensus, Bitcoin Conference, and Token 2049, and The North American Bitcoin Conference. He has also been quoted and appeared many times in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, NY Times, CNBC, Fortune, Forbes, and Yahoo Finance among many other media outlets. 

 

Prior to Abra, Bill was CEO of Boom Financial and WebSentric. He was also VP at Goldman Sachs and served as a research engineer at NASA and the CIA. As one of the early team members of Netscape, Bill was involved in building some of the core infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we all use today.  Bill is globally recognized as a technology pioneer and as an avid investor in companies across Web 3 and the broader technology ecosystem.

You’ll learn about:

• Bill’s background and experience with regulators
• The idea of trustless, peer-to-peer transactions and why bitcoin is fundamentally different
• Abra is a bridge between Web2 and Web3
• The potential for bitcoin to solve socio economic issues 

Timestamps

[0:00 - 2:05] Jay’s intro

[2:05 - 4:30] Bill’s background

[4:30 - 9:50] Why Bitcoin?

[9:50 - 12:56] Decentralizing finance

[12:56 - 19:36] How do we achieve global deFi and good regulation

[19:36 - 27:30] About Abra

[27:30 - 31:53] Determining currencies allowed on Abra

[31:53 - 41:26] The path to mainstream adoption

[41:26 - 51:26] On regulation and the future of crypto

[51:26 - 54:24] Best practices for investing

[54:24 - 55:06 How to contact Bill

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