Welcome to the Blockchain All-star series!
Blockchain and distributed ledger technology are at the forefront of the Internet 3.0 era, where the technology can enable trusted and transparent sharing of data and digital assets. Though the technology is still at its early stage, who makes up the constellation of innovators, guiding us through the digital revolution powered by blockchain?

In the Blockchain All-star series, we invite entrepreneurs, innovators, and dreamers to share
their stories and personal adventures behind the scenes.

ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER:
Winston Ma, CFA & Esq.
Managing Partner of CloudTree Ventures;
Author of The Hunt for Unicorns, The Digital War, and Blockchain and Web3 (forthcoming 2022).
Winston Ma is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy.
Most recently for 10 years, he was Managing Director for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund.
At CIC’s inception in 2007, he was among the first group of overseas hires by CIC, where he had leadership roles in global investments involving financial services, technology (TMT), energy, and natural resources sectors (Head of CIC North America office 2014-2015).
Prior to that, Mr. Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Book author of China's Mobile Economy (Wiley 2016, among “best 2016 business books for CIOs”), Digital Economy 2.0 (Chinese, 2017), The Digital Silk Road (2018 German), China's AI Big Bang (Japanese 2019), Investing in China (Risk Books, 2006).
The latest books - are "The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy" and "The Digital War – How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace".
He was selected as a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and in 2014 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University (NYU). He has served as an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law.



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0:00 - opener animation

00:11 - intro

01:33 - #Cryptocurrency # Blockchain #Business Start-up
Where were you born and where were you raised?

05:41 - Did you follow anyone's footsteps going up? was there anyone in your life who inspired you on a particular path?

07:40 - How did you participate in that blockchain and web 3.0 would be so big one day?

10:08 - It's trajectory as we start heading into the latter part of 2022, these things tend to move at light speed so so we're looking at these changes happening on a daily basis What your thoughts are on the current state of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in 2023?

13:35 - You mentioned in other interviews that the Chinese government needs to think about “creative ways to get more digital yuan users”. What do you think is the biggest challenge right now for the digital yuan implementation? Is it a lack of interest? Why it is meaningful to get more users into using digital yuan?

16:20 - When you think about just how very quickly the internet grew and then now we're talking about blockchain cryptocurrency and its mainstream use. Would you see that same upward trajectory of use in this or do you think it's taking a little bit longer because people are a little leery of how secure it is and its usefulness? What do you think is kind of a global challenge now when we talk about those two things?

21:00 - You have planted in both China and the western world, what's it like to be in that two worlds separately and together?

23:45 - Would you like to talk about the first book you've written?

26:01 - When you think about 2016 that was not that long ago and exactly in a blink of an eye now we're talking about Metaverse, blockchain, and AI and it is just how it has shifted, how do you think that did what was there any one particular thing that was instrumental in changing in that sea change?

28:35 - Can you tell us about your new book "Blockchain and Web3?

31:54 - Do you foresee anyone standing in the way of users being able to monetize, in the way of progression of a web 3 where people can take more ownership over and be able to monetize what they engage in?

35:11 - How do you feel about the future where a lot of these technologies are being used at other much higher levels in web 3.0?

38:35 - Is there an iteration of web4 how and what would that look like?

40:15 - Moving into 2022, What do you think is the most promising or exciting field that we should pay attention to? AI, Metaverse, NFT?

42: 40 - Quickfire questions

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