Talks, videos & slides
Media
Talks and interviews on the MIT Digital Currency Experiment, the economics of blockchain technology, and the road from Libra to stablecoins and CBDCs. Videos load only when you press play, via YouTube's privacy-enhanced player. More recent media at catalini.com/media.
Blockchain & the MIT Digital Currency Experiment
The MIT Digital Currency Experiment · MIT Sloan Alumni · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Seeding the S-Curve — with Catherine Tucker · HBS Digital Initiative · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain · MIT Sloan Alumni · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain — 2017 MIT ICT Conference · MIT Corporate Relations · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
How Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Will Impact the Digital Economy · MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
How Blockchain Will Transform the Digital Economy · MIT Sloan CIO Symposium · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Initial Coin Offerings: The Rise of Crypto Capitalism · The Entrepreneur Forum · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Blockchain 101 — A Visual Demo · Anders Brownworth · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
How Blockchain Works — in 2 Minutes · MinuteVideos · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Stablecoins, Libra & CBDCs
Breaking Down the Libra Cryptocurrency · MIT Sloan Experts Series · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Libra, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain · HBS Digital Initiative · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
A Libra Co-Creator on How Facebook Will Make Money From Calibra · Unchained, with Laura Shin · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
How the Facebook Digital Currency Dream Has Changed · CNBC International · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Cryptocurrencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies · Philadelphia Fed · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
From Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins and Diem to CBDCs · Luohan Academy · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Stablecoins and Their Role in the Financial System · OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute Symposium · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
How Crypto, Stablecoins, CBDCs and Web3 Will Reshape Competition · Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, PKU · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
The Future of Fintech: DeFi, NFTs, Smart Contracts, Web3 · Philadelphia Fed · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Forget Bitcoin: Stablecoins Are the Real Revolution · Slow Ventures · plays via youtube-nocookie.com
Also: "From Libra to Open Standard's OUSD: What Facebook's Failed Stablecoin Teaches Us" — CoinDesk Podcast Network, 2026 (Spotify).
Slides
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain
Christian Catalini's talk at the 2017 MIT Information and Communication Technologies Conference. 54 slides.
Suggested citation: Catalini, C., Gans, J. "Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain", MIT Working Paper.
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