For this week’s podcast, we have the honour of interviewing Preston Byrne. Preston is a banking and securities lawyer in London, specialising in securitisation and derivatives. He advises the Adam Smith Institute on legal aspects of its policy proposals and writes on a range of subjects including housing and planning law, the security state, freedom of expression and, of course, cryptocurrency. He is also a founder and former COO of Monax, makers of the first open-source permissioned blockchain client way back in 2014, which is now known as the Hyperledger Burrow. Preston has written critically about stablecoin projects, and is an outspoken and often-quoted critic of the current state in cryptocurrency , which we really need. Also: he loves marmots. Actually, thats how we got in touch, through a marmot meme, but that’s another story.