Roundtable: Stablecoins—Designing a Price-Stable Cryptocurrency
Rhys Lindmark, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Robleh Ali, MIT Media Lab, and Haseeb Qureshi, MetaStable Capital
May 2, 2019 | Business of Blockchain
Rhys Lindmark, Head of Community and Long-Term Societal Impact, MIT Digital Currency Initiative
Rhys Lindmark currently works at MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative. He focuses on the ethics and impact of blockchain technology, and how to catalyze paradigmatic change.
Robleh Ali, Research Scientist, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab
Robleh Ali is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative. His main focus is on how national currencies can be issued digitally outside the existing banking system and what role central banks should play in such a system. The overall aim is to fundamentally reform the financial system by changing the way money is issued. He previously led the research into central-bank-issued digital currency at the Bank of England.
Haseeb Qureshi, Advisor, MetaStable Capital
Haseeb Qureshi is an advisor at MetaStable Capital, a leading cryptocurrency hedge fund. He is a former software engineer, previously at Earn.com and Airbnb. He also teaches a seminar on cryptocurrencies at the Bradfield School of Computer Science.