What Fidelity Is Doing With the Bitcoin It's Mined

Christine Sandler, head of gross revenue and advertising at Fidelity Digital Assets, dialogue about how 30 years in conventional finance and an early retreat led her to Coinbase, and, finally, Fidelity Digital Assets. She discusses the historical past of Fidelity's involvement in crypto, how they grew to become one of many first to enter the area, and what the thirster term holds. Topics embody:

? what Fidelity Digital Assets is and Christine's position there

What Fidelity Is Doing With the Bitcoin It's Mined - Ep.200

? Christine's background in conventional finance, how she was drawn into the world of cryptocurrencies, finally working at Coinbase, and the way she discovered her approach to Fidelity Digital Assets

? the position Fidelity sees itself taking part in inside the digital plus area

? how the shopper base for digital property has modified over time

? how Fidelity approaches the difficulties round explaining what Bitcoin and crypto is, and the commonest questions they obtain

? how the pandemic has modified the dialog round digital currencies

? the forms of companies and merchandise Fidelity is contemplating for the thirster term

? the variations Fidelity sees in how worldwide traders are approaching digital foreign money

? Fidelity's plans for a Bitcoin index fund and whether or not they're contemplating providing futures

? how medium of exchange establishments and institutional traders match right into a world of decentralised finance based with the ethos of excluding them

? the regulative enhancements Fidelity is hoping to see

? what a Bitcoin ETF would imply for Fidelity

? how Fidelity would possibly use a central financial institution digital foreign money in its enterprise

? Fidelity's ideas on providing proof of stake companies

? whether or not a extra deflationary Ethereum would possibly appeal to extra institutional traders

and whether or not Fidelity will provide Ethereum sooner or later

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Episode hyperlinks:

Christine Sandler: https://twitter.com/shoegalnyc

Fidelity Digital Assets: https://www.fidelitydigitalpluss.com/overview

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalAssets

Christine leaves Coinbase for FDAS: https://www.coindesk.com/fidelity-poaches-coinbase-institutional-sales-head-christine-sandler

Fidelity Center for Applied Technology: https://fcatalyst.com/overview

Fidelity Digital Assets trying to turn into prime dealer: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/daily/68920/fidelity-digital-pluss-eyes-service-for-introducing-crypto-funds-to-big-investors

How the shopper visibility has modified: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/daily/42342/the-client-visibility-is-changing-fidelity-digital-pluss-exec-says-new-players-are-entering-the-crypto-fold

How to Explain Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains to the Average Person

Unchained episode: https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-to-explain-cryptocurrencies-and-blockchains-to-the-average-person/

Fidelity expands crypto enterprise to Europe: https://www.coindesk.com/fidelity-to-expand-institutional-crypto-business-to-europe

Fidelity obtains New York Trust Charter: https://www.coindesk.com/fidelity-gets-a-new-york-trust-charter-to-custody-bitcoin-for-institutions

Bitcoin Index Fund: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2021/08/26/fidelity-president-files-for-new-bitcoin-fund/?sh=13aa335445c9

Fidelity survey of 800 institutional traders: https://www.fidelitydigitalpluss.com/bin-public/060_www_fidelity_com/documents/FDAS/institutional-investor-study.pdf

FDAS hiring: https://www.fidelitydigitalpluss.com/articles/engineering-hiring-initiative?ccmedia=owned&ccchannel=social&cccampaign=hiring_blog&cctactics=twitter

Kingdom Trust:

https://www.coindesk.com/fidelity-digital-pluss-to-custody-bitcoin-in-kingdom-trust-retreat-accounts

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