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. Additional 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 & 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
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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