Casa's Jeremy Welch and Alena Vranova on Crypto Custody

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Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Saturday 27th October
Company: Casa
Role: Founder (Jeremy Welch), Strategy (Alena Vranova)

As the value of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies increase, custody has become an increasingly important and sophisticated part of self-sovereignty. The freedom and ease at which cryptocurrencies can be transferred also makes them a honeypot for hackers, coupled with immutable records, there is little recourse should your funds be stolen.

People hold their cryptocurrencies in a variety of wallets, from paper to hardware but these still expose vulnerabilities. From lost seed phrases to personal attacks, there is a demand in the market for more sophisticated custody solutions, and Casa is leading the way in developing the space.

With their central three-of-five management solution, Casa has targeted those with significant portfolios, but with the release of their Bitcoin full node and lightning node they are opening up options to more customers.

In this interview, I talk with Casa founder, Jeremy Welch and strategy lead, Alena Vranova (previously Trezor) about how the Casa solution works, the challenges of managing custody and why design is central to everything they do.

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Helpful Links:

Connect with Jeremy:
- On Twitter @jeremyrwelch
- On LinkedIn
- On Crunchbase
- On Medium
- On AngelList

Connect with Alena:
- On Twitter @AlenaSatoshi
- On LinkedIn
- On Crunchbase
- On AngelList

Casa:
- Website
- OPSEC Checker
- Store
- Twitter
- Crunchbase
- AngelList

Articles about Casa:
- Manage your Keys with Casa
- Improve Your Security with Casa
- Features of the Casa Node
- Crypto 101: Multi-sig

Mentioned in the show:
- Designing Products People Love: How Great Designers Create Successful Products by Scott Hurff
- Lightning Bitcoin Node

Other relevant WBD podcasts:
- WBD040: Personal Privacy and Safety in the Surveillance Age with Jameson Lopp
- WBD034: Why Crypto Privacy is Important with Monero's Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni
- WBD018: Bitcoin Scaling and Lightning Network with Jameson Lopp
- WBD002: Getting Hacked and Losing Your Crypto with Nik Patel

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