Roger Bayston
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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It took a lot of government bailout and subsidization of those firms.
Well, fast forward to a couple of years ago when
First Republican Silicon Valley Bank went under.
They went under in a matter of days, over a weekend, quite frankly.
The trust was destroyed.
Right.
All of these businesses in the financial markets are all based on trust.
We sell trust, you give us your money, we will give you your money back with return, with value added to it.
We only do that in a relationship of trust.
We like to think of these blockchain infrastructures as trustware as opposed to software as we build, we refer to that.
But
You know.
P the positive externalities.
can also come with negative externalities.
If we increase the velocity of things
we can also increase the, you know, how fast financial institutions that lose trust end up being destroyed.
And so these are things I think that regulators themselves struggle with a little bit.
I do think blockchain and smart contracts, you know, when they come into the things like the global financial crisis was, you know, who has collateral?
Who controls the collateral?
There was that fateful day when somebody at AIG hit a button and sent all their collateral to Goldman Sachs.
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