Media

social media

I publish in a few places

  • For crypto related views and analysis, sign up for my email newsletter here: https://irregularmail.substack.com/

  • If you’re on Medium, sign up here: https://medium.com/@michellelaiy

  • For real-time ramblings, follow me on Twitter. My DMs are open https://twitter.com/michlai007

  • For code and DeFi analyses: https://github.com/ml-sudocode

Are you ready for WW3?

Building tech stacks and societies that are resilient against a potential World War 3. Shielding Summit, Brussels, July 2024

speaking & other public engagements

Getting to Gilead: from Surveillance to Control

Talk on the history of surveillance, The Handmaid’s Tale, and meeting Margaret Atwood, 2023. Barcelona, August 2023

Privacy is Normal @ETHDenver

4-hour privacy special at the largest crypto dev conf. Speakers incl. Roger Dingledine, Frances Haugen, professional hacker. Agenda here. Producer & emcee: Michelle Lai. Denver, February 2023

In conversation with Edward Snowden: privacy builders’ edition

Fireside chat at the launch of the Universal Privacy Alliance at Devcon 6. Hosts: Michelle Lai, Jarrad Hope (Status.im). Bogota, Oct 2022

Impact of Tornado Cash on Crypto Privacy Projects

Panel at ZK House, with Manta, Nym, ECC, Aztec and Polygon ID. Moderator: Michelle Lai. Bogota, Oct 2022

Future Money: What Is Zcash?

A documentary about the origins of crypto and Zcash, featuring Vitalik Buterin, Zooko Wilcox, and Edward Snowden.

Universal Privacy Alliance @ETHDenver

Interrogating leaders at leading privacy projects in crypto. Agenda here. Emcee: Michelle Lai. Denver, February 2023

How Will Crypto Affect Our Future?

Trailer for the documentary on the origins of crypto and Zcash

Fireside chat at Zcon2 in 2021 with Zooko Wilcox (Zcash cofounder), Andrew Miller (Zcash Foundation Chairman)

Zcash Open Major Grants Committee at Zcon2 in 2021

Michelle Lai, Chris Burniske, Hudson Jameson, Holmes Wilson, Minezcash

Wharton Global Forum, Singapore

“Future of Finance” panel with Sopnendu Mohanty (Chief Fintech Officer, MAS), Derrick Goh (Chief Audit Officer, DBS) and Professor Itay Goldstein(bank failure expert). March 2023

Plausible Deniability: Privacy and Cryptocurrency

Panel at Hope.net conference by 2600 Magazine, with Lane Rettig and Arctic Byte (NYC, July 2022)

Quotes

  • On funding Tor’s Rust Implementation through the Zcash grant board: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/06/08/tor-project-receives-670k-from-zcash-open-major-grants-for-coding-language-upgrade/

  • On Urbit as the first truly meaningful use case of crypto in 2016: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/09/24/urbit-courts-daos-crypto-teams-in-push-to-make-internet-p2p-again/

  • On over-financialization in crypto: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/09/27/an-urbit-airdrop-highlights-promises-and-problems-of-permissionless-development/

  • On tracing the FTX debacle as it went down: https://www.wired.com/story/ftx-hack-theft-crypto-tracing/

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