#59 - Steven McClurg: Decentralization & the Institutional Adoption of Crypto

Our guest on Today’s podcast is Steven McClurg, CIO and Co-Founder of Valkyrie Investment.  In today’s episode of the Somi Arian Podcast Steve and I discuss the role of VCs in the Blockchain space, the institutional adoption of Crypto and whether decentralization should become a value that we adopt in society and whether DAOs could disrupt the VC model.  Steven has some great perspectives on these topics which I think you will also enjoy hearing.   Outline ⤵️ 00:00 Intro 00:46 Steven’s background and journey into blockchain technology 05:06 Is decentralization the future? 09:08 Defining and regulating tokens  13:37 Lack of unanimity between countries when it comes to crypto  17:07 Emerging markets impacting the blockchain technology 21:46 DAO and VC funds 27:15 Should startups tokenize? 34:05 Crypto ecosystem is encouraging people to learn financial literacy 35:29 Why Bitcoin? 36:28 Outro   Sponsor of this episode 👉  https://www.metabrewsociety.com/