Meltem Demirors is the chief strategy officer at digital asset investment advisory group CoinShares, a frequent guest on CNBC, and an advisor on multiple projects, such as Casa and Shyft Network.
She’s also the newest board member of the Stacks Foundation, the nonprofit organization that promotes development on the Stacks network (formerly Blockstack), a move that has been in the works since last year but was shared exclusively with Decrypt today.
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Stacks is a network designed to bring the types of decentralized applications and smart contracts Ethereum is known for onto Bitcoin. Or, as the website puts its, “Stacks unleashes Bitcoin’s full potential as a programmable base layer.”
And that involves doing away with its image as digital gold, Demirors told Decrypt in an interview. “Gold is a shiny rock. Bitcoin is not a rock. It’s not a f—ing rock.”
“There’s a lot of work to be done on t
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