Guest
Becca Rubenfeld
Adoption & Corruption w/ Becca Rubenfeld
- Becca Rubenfeld, co-founder and COO of AnchorWatch, shares her story of adopting her son James from a Ukrainian orphanage, a process that took two years amid government corruption and systemic failures. - She details her discovery of a large corruption ring in the regional Ukrainian Ministry of Children that had falsified adoption documents for 15 years to steal children's inherited apartments and sell them on the black market. - The adoption timeline was complicated by the 2014 Ukrainian political crisis, Crimea invasion, and the threat of James being drafted into military service before he could leave the country. - Becca recently received a diagnosis of aggressive and rare breast cancer and felt compelled to tell James's story now while she could ensure it was on record for him and her family. - She discusses reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and fetal alcohol syndrome as key risks in international adoption, and why she chose to adopt an older child (age 6+) to better assess these conditions. - The hostage program system allowed her to meet James for a summer before formal adoption, establishing an existing relationship that enabled her to select him despite international adoption rules against pre-selection.
THE FUTURE OF BITCOIN CUSTODY w/ Becca Rubenfeld
- Becca Rubenfeld's 20-year career path from fashion merchandising at Target and American Eagle to supply chain and innovation at Starbucks, culminating in building Starbucks' largest fintech program orchestrating $20 billion in annual spend. - Discovery of Bitcoin in 2019 through swing trading, then deep education via Clubhouse in 2020 where she met Rob and other Bitcoin OGs (American HODL, June Seth, Jimmy Song, Jay Gould, Brad Mills). - Anchor Watch's founding as a "Clubhouse company" born from a conversation about the need for Bitcoin custody insurance, initially designed for self-custody multi-sig protection. - Trident Vault technology using Miniscript to enable multi-sig of multi-sigs, time-locked recovery layers, and enhanced self-custody without a seed phrase—the first major cold storage innovation since multisig (2013). - Achieving Lloyd's of London cover holder status (only second crypto company; first and only to serve retail customers directly) after over one year of due diligence proving Miniscript's risk distribution at protocol level. - Pricing insurance at 55 basis points minimum (compared to 1–7% for gold, art, jewelry) and positioning insured custody as inevitable replacement for uninsured custody as institutions mature.