Twitter Spaces Recording: Brad Stone x Stefan Thomas: Unpacking Web3, Blockchain & Open Source
Channel: Coil
Date: 2022-04-13

Audio Recording from 2-25-22 Twitter Spaces hosted by Coil: Stefan Thomas & Brad Stone: Unpacking Web3, Blockchain & the Open Source Movement

Topics 
* 2012 Bitcoin narratives 
* Interledger’s approach
* Web3 & Blockchain Interoperability
* Payments & alternative business models
* Lost Bitcoin password update

Welcome to the first edition of Coil’s Twitter Spaces series, where we will be hosting discussion and hearing from prominent figures such as those you hear from today. Topics will include payments, Web Monetization, open source technologies, creators, developers, publishers and Coil’s portfolio companies. Please be sure to follow us for updates. 

We are very excited to have Brad Stone with to lead a conversation with our CEO Stefan Thomas. Brad is the Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology at Bloomberg News where he oversees a team of 65 reporters and editors that covers high-tech companies, startups, cyber security and internet trends around the world.

Brad Stone is also the author of four books, including Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, published by Simon & Schuster in May 2021.

Stefan Thomas is an open-source developer who has made significant contributions to the open source, blockchain, and development communities. 

In 2018, Stefan founded Coil with the vision to create a better business model for the web not reliant on advertising or subscription services. As a Web Monetization provider, Coil facilitates the monetization of content by sending micropayments to websites and content while browsing. The goal is to ensure that content creators all over the world can be fairly and easily compensated for their work all while protecting user privacy. 

Prior to Coil, Stefan was a prominent figure in the blockchain movement. As an early Bitcoin contributor, he produced the popular “What is Bitcoin?” video, introducing millions of users to Bitcoin, and created BitcoinJS, the first implementation of Bitcoin cryptography in the browser. 

As CTO and one of the first employees at Ripple, Stefan designed new protocols for cross-border payments, now used by banks all over the world. As part of this work, he co-created Interledger, an open, Internet-like protocol for value transfer. Stefan is a passionate supporter of financial access and worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop Mojaloop, an open-source national payment switch that connects mobile wallets in developing markets. Stefan is also the Chairperson of the Interledger Foundation, a non-profit advocate for the web, promoting innovation, creativity, and inclusion by advancing open payment standards and technologies that seamlessly connect our global society.