S3 E2 - The Missing Internet Trust Layer with Timo Hotti

About this episode

The episode discusses the future of trust in the digital economy with Timo Hotti, focusing on the challenges and potential of crypto.

The future of trust in the digital economy For a long time, I struggled to articulate exactly what bothered me about crypto. It wasn’t just the reports of grift, fraud, or dark-market economic activity. More fundamentally, crypto has never quite felt like the internet at its best — open, connective, trust-building, and generative in the ways transformative technologies should be. Then I read the new Internet Trust Layer white paper from Finnish technologist and financial thought leader Timo H...

People in this episode

Guest: Timo Hotti

Topics covered

• digital economy
• trust
• crypto
• internet
• technology
• finance

Keywords

• trust layer
• crypto
• digital economy
• internet
• technology
• fraud
• grift

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