S4 E19: The Death of the Password: How Atakama Engineered Threshold Cryptography with Daniel Gallancy

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · May 11, 2021 · 26m

Daniel Gallancy is a husband and father to an 18 month old son. He studied electrical engineering and physics in school, but ended up working in finance, doing diligence on tech companies for an investment fund. In 2011, he discovered bitcoin and became enamored with the concept. At that time, he bought 1 whole bitcoin for $4 dollars. Looking back, he obviously wishes he would have bought more. We got into an interesting conversation about ICO's - initial coin offerings - and tokens in general, around how companies drive up the value of said tokens through usage, rather than business profit…