Gianni D'Alerta 🔮

Quoted: 'Buterin and the team backing him assembled at a rented house in Miami in January 2014, ahead of the North American Bitcoin Conference there. “I felt like I was in the garage with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs,” says Gianni D’Alerta, who first met Diiorio there, and is now director of marketing and branding at Decentral. “There were people coding in the closets, people outside debating protocols—it was really exciting to witness.” Within months, Diiorio and the other Ethereum founders… Show more

Quoted: 'Buterin and the team backing him assembled at a rented house in Miami in January 2014, ahead of the North American Bitcoin Conference there. “I felt like I was in the garage with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs,” says Gianni D’Alerta, who first met Diiorio there, and is now director of marketing and branding at Decentral. “There were people coding in the closets, people outside debating protocols—it was really exciting to witness.” Within months, Diiorio and the other Ethereum founders crowdsourced US$18 million in Bitcoin by mounting an “initial coin offering,” or ICO, of its Ether token—up until then the largest ICO ever.' Show less

Even if you don’t personally own any, chances are good that you’ve heard of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin. What are they, how do they work, and where is this whole thing going?
Near the end of 2017, I sat down with Gianni D’Alerta, the marketing director at Decentral, which — among other things — is the company behind the cryptocurrency wallet Jaxx. Since we did this interview, the prices of the various cryptocurrencies have failed and risen, prompting media… Show more

Even if you don’t personally own any, chances are good that you’ve heard of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin. What are they, how do they work, and where is this whole thing going?
Near the end of 2017, I sat down with Gianni D’Alerta, the marketing director at Decentral, which — among other things — is the company behind the cryptocurrency wallet Jaxx. Since we did this interview, the prices of the various cryptocurrencies have failed and risen, prompting media coverage of a supposed crash and fueling speculation that maybe the Bitcoin bubble had burst.
Regardless of your opinion on this stuff, I think you’ll find that this conversation with Gianni shows that the cryptocurrency phenomenon is about a lot more than speculation with play money. There’s a lot at play here, from politics to technology to a total revolution in the world’s relationship to its money — and that’s likely true even if none of the cryptocurrencies we discuss here survive in the long term.
In this chat, Gianni and I go over some of the basics, but this interview will be less of a cryptocurrency 101 and more of a discussion of the broader implications of the technology. Full disclosure: I’m not an expert, and I even ask some dumb questions.
Hopefully, this will serve a starting point for you in exploring this issue and familiarizing yourself with what cryptocurrencies and blockchain are all about. Show less

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