Todays guest is Gloria Zhao, she is a Bitcoin Core developer, former president of “Blockchain at Berkeley” and will finish her Computer Science studies at the end of 2020. We discuss how Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are seen by her fellow college students, why she chose to work on Bitcoin only instead of all the other Silicon Valley stuff and blockchain projects that are around.“Privacy and censorship resistance should be the default. We can’t keep measuring technologies or applications based on how convenient they are or how cheap they are.We need to start thinking about how private they are.” – Gloria ZhaoTopics:Career expectations for college students in Silicon ValleyBlockchain education at the collegeWhy Bitcoin, not blockchainHow she escaped the mindset of Silicon ValleyHow to become a Bitcoin Core developerHer Chinese rootsWhy privacy is so important in the digital eraSubscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly

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