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Podcast: On The Brink with Castle Island
Episode: Muneeb Ali (Blockstack) on Bitcoin-based Smart Contracts
Description: Muneeb Ali, cofounder of Blockstack, joins the show to talk about the launch of Stacks 2.0 and its evolution from a securities offering to a freely tradable instrument in the U.S. New developments with Stacks and a novel legal opinion What constitutes sufficient decentralization and how Blockstack took cues from regulators Why Blockstack felt empowered to list their token on public US exchanges The current state of Blockstack governance Reflections on Ethereum's purported transmutation How Blockstack did the first reg A+ securities offering for a cryptoasset Why securities registration is worthwhile for token issuance Whether the SEC disclosure...