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@RichJWidmann
Dad. Husband.
Head of Strategy, Web3 @GoogleCloud
Professor at @NorthwesternLaw
Board Member
Former Litigator @SidleyLaw. Opinions my own - not legal advice.
Austin
Joined June 2020
First partnership announcement of the year - excited to contribute to the innovation happening @FlareNetworks!You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more- Its official, I’m hanging up my legal spurs to be Head of Strategy for Digital Assets at Google! It was great to speak with @CNBC and @jordannovet about my role and announce our new team in the blockchain space. I’m excited to apply my legal toolset to biz strategy!!gm Google Cloud has formed a Digital Assets Team to pick up blockchain-related business, and it's looking at the possibility of taking payments from customers on cryptocurrency cnbc.com/2022/01/27/goo…
- For folks emailing/pinging about the Play policy update. Please see the update provided from Google here. As I mentioned to others, the policy was not intended to cover non-custodial wallets but imprecisely used the term "software wallets" without nuance which led to confusion.Replying to @theragetechThanks for flagging this. Non-custodial wallets are not in scope of Google Play’s Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Software Wallets Policy. We are updating the Help Center to make this clear.
- Of all the hyperscalers none of them care about Web3 startups as much as @googlecloud. Today we hosted a panel at Consensus featuring current and former startup program participants from @ChainPatrol @voltage_cloud and @hedera hosted by our own @jmtromans
- Replying to @propelforward and @OrinKerrWhat about 4th amendment?
- I've shared my experience serving as a board member of a nationally chartered bank with some folks in the crypto space, but never on X. Read these letters. Please. They may not look particularly alarming at first, but as a director or officer of a bank, you know if youWe finally got the unredacted OCP 2.0 letters from @FDICgov. It took a Court order but you can now read them for yourself below. They show a coordinated effort to stop a wide variety of crypto activity — everything from basic BTC transactions to more complex offerings. 1/3
- You can now search any Ethereum address in Google and you'll see the Ethereum balance right in search results (alongside a link to Etherscan) - well done to the team @Google 🚀🚀🚀
- The @coinbase State of Crypto Summit was one to remember. Tons of institutional conversations driving crypto forward. I was lucky to share my thoughts on payments with folks from OpenAI, @edwinaoki from Paypal, EY and others.
- Some of the greatest value creation in crypto will come from removing intermediaries and creating new paradigms of ownership. Whether it's IP and property rights or digitally native money, partnering with teams like @StoryProtocol is the fastest way to enable the realization ofStory is partnering with @googlecloud web3 to bring programmable IP to the mainstream. Infra trusted by the internet’s biggest companies, now powering the internet’s next multi-trillion dollar asset class. Your IP, your rules – made possible by @googlecloud.
00:00 - Replying to @CryptoHearst @zachxbt and @LayerZero_LabsThe “more info coming soon” is what got me. So I figured the reply had the “more info.” Dumb oversight while scrolling crypto twitter and multitasking.
- Replying to @itsTKDM @zachxbt and @LayerZero_LabsBeen here for 9 years. Should have known better - don’t drink and crypto at the same time.
- Replying to @chainyoda and @wassielawyerCayman and Singapore are not nearly as bad. Unclear if he's just referring to Panamanian judicial process or if the reference to suing in the US and serving in foreign jurisdiction. The latter requires filing something called letters rogatory and its a PITA.
