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“Regulation should not hinder innovation...regulation should not pick winners and losers. Remaining technology neutral is one of the best ways to enhance innovation,” said Brian Quintenz of the U.S. Community Futures Trading Commission at Consensus 2018.
He also said that there is no imminent decision on Ether’s status as a commodity or security.

“No, Blockchain won’t solve all your problems for you. It’s not this magical thing” — Jimmy Song, a partner at Blockchain Capital.

“The way we should be thinking about privacy coins is as incubators...this is a rapid area of research,” says Andrew Poelstra of Blockstream at the Consensus 2018 panel, Advances in Privacy & Confidentially.

Amber Baldet launches Clovyr at Consensus 2018, saying that the only cost higher than innovation is not innovating.

From left to right: Amber Baldet of Clovyr, Joe Lubin of Consensys and Jimmy Song, a partner at Blockchain Capital, duke it out at Consensus 2018 after Baldet's launch announcement of Clovyr.

“We don’t have sound money right now, except for bitcoin,” says Johnny Dilley of Crowd Machine at the Consensus 2018 panel, Advances in Privacy & Confidentially.

“Privacy is necessary for a free and open society. Privacy is not the same as secrecy,” says Jameson Lopp, creator of statoshi.info, at the Consensus 2018 panel, Advances in Privacy & Confidentially.

“It’s easy to become blinded by the excitement around [this technology]...it’s important to make the right choices.” —Dr. Junta Steiner of Parity Technologies at Race Towards Interoperability at Consensus 2018. On the left is Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin.

“We’re in an early adopter phase, but in the future, people really don’t want to know how the backend works... It just has to work in a simple, easy way.”
—Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, on the challenges of UX
at the Race Towards Interoperability at Consensus 2018.
Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, at Consensus 2018.