Samson Mow: DeFi Lacks Decentralization

Samson Mow, former chief strategy officer at Blockstream, is convinced that DeFi protocols can’t compete with Bitcoin as monetary networks due to their lack of decentralization. Samson Mow, former chief strategy officer at Blokstream and founder of JAN3, is convinced that most decentralized finance protocols can’t compete with Bitcoin when it comes to providing an effective monetary network because of their lack of decentralization. As Mow pointed out, DeFi projects are governed by entities that can modify the protocol at will. “At the fundamental level, money should be immutable,”....

In this week's DeFi newsletter we bring you an exclusive research report on Terra, Samson Mow's shocking comment on DeFi and Fireblock's latest DeFi institutional offering. The week was filled with several new project developments and key updates from leading decentralized applications (DApps) and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Fireblocks has expanded its institutional access to Terra’s DeFi ecosystem and Solana partnered with the Notifi network to improve the abysmal participation rates in governance votes.We will also look into the Cointelegraph research into the Terra....

Bitcoin infrastructure developer Samson Mow announced progress on favorable Bitcoin legislation in three locales around the world.

It’s the end of an era. Samson Mow, Blockstream’s Chief Strategy Officer, left the company earlier today. The separation was amicable. “It’s been a grand adventure working with Adam Back for the last 5 years and together we’ve accomplished a great deal from sidechains, to mining, to satellites. So what’s next? I plan to focus […]

In a striking proposal at the 2024 Asia Blockchain Summit, Samson Mow, CEO of Bitcoin technology company JAN3, recommended that Taiwan should adopt BTC as part of its national reserve strategy by purchasing 83,000 units of the cryptocurrency. This figure is directly tied to Taiwan’s gold reserves, which are significantly higher relative to those of […]