Nouriel Roubini and Peter Van Valkenburgh Debate the Current State of Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies in Front of the US Senate

On October 11, 2018, Nouriel Roubini, a highly respected professor at NYU and economist renowned for predicting the 2008 recession, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, the director for research at Coin Center, a leading cryptocurrency & blockchain research center, debated, in front of the US Senate, the current state of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Various questions were asked pertaining to decentralization, use cases, progress, fraud, market manipulation etc. Nouriel Roubini conducted himself in an agenda-fueled manner where he continuously made the same points over and over again, not elaborating on any of his claims, those of which were “bitcoin can only…...