Speaking

Index

Conferences

• "Digital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer Status". South by Southwest, March 9, 2025.
• "Speaking Truth to Crypto Power". South by Southwest, March 7, 2025.
• "Fighting for our web". XOXO, August 24, 2024.
• "The opportunity in the tech industry's failures". This Next Thing, June 18, 2024.
• "Popping the Web3 Bubble". South by Southwest, March 14, 2023.
• "Is web3 bullshit?" Web Summit, November 4, 2022.
• "The future of crypto: What's next for this craze?" (panel). Web Summit, November 4, 2023.
• "Crypotopia: Land of the promised vs. virtual" (panel). Crypto Policy Symposium, September 6, 2022.

Guest lectures

• Web3 overview and discussion. Columbia University, April 18, 2024.
• "Web3 technology and financial solutions". MIT, May 8, 2023.
• Web3 overview and discussion. Columbia University, April 20, 2023.
• Seminar series: "Blockchain Solutions to Socio-Political Problems". Harvard University, March–April 2023.
• Web3 overview and discussion. CUNY Queens, April 3, 2023.
• "Blockchains and digital ethics". Northeastern University, March 28, 2023.
• Blockchain history and technical overview. Harvard University, March 27, 2023.
• "Interrogating the Claims of Crypto: Decentralized, Immutable, Anonymous, Transparent". February 8, 2023.
• "Crypto: Innovation and Disruption". Stanford University, January 24, 2023.
• Blockchain and crypto Q&A. Harvard University, November 15, 2022.
• "Blockchain solutionism". University of Texas at Austin, September 21, 2022.
• "Abuse on the blockchain". Stanford University, March 7, 2022.

Government and policy

• "Web3 – Current trends and political implications". Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, January 19, 2023.
• Testimony at "Web 3.0 and the Metaverse". German Bundestag, December 14, 2023.
• "A Skeptical View of Current Cryptocurrency and Web3 Activities". New Hampshire Commission on Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets, August 3, 2022.

Other talks

• "Reflections on a tech mania: Learning from the web3 hype cycle". Stripe, March 13, 2024.