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Robert De Groot

Robert De Groot

Sep 18, 2026

MattHOST
4:44
Tell us what that is and what does it change for the companies that might benefit on the end?
4:51
Well, we're really trying to create the ecosystem around space and not only the ecosystem but also including the supply chain.
5:05
So the bigger companies but also the suppliers who are mostly SMEs and mid-cap and goes all the way down to very small companies with very specific expertise.
5:19
So the tech EU is an umbrella for the many fields of technology where Europe really has to invest, whether it's AI or supercomputing or, in this case, space.
5:33
So for example, if you look at what this digital revolution over the past decade has brought us, in essence, it's all about data.
5:44
And increasingly, we find use for space to provide us with the data.
5:51
So we not only need satellites far up in the higher orbits of space, but we also want them in the lower orbits to have a look at who owns which property.

6 MINS LATER

MattHOST
11:42
Why should those citizens care about investment in space?
5:06
And with the events that you've organized or been involved in, like you did mention at the beginning of the call, what have you seen about how the industry, particularly, I suppose, the Ethereum community is thinking about privacy, like what it really thinks versus what is maybe going on and what is sort of publicly put out there? Is there any difference between what is said and what is thought, in your opinion?
5:25
It's a fix, first and foremost.
5:27
Initially, of course, if we're talking about the Ethereum community, I consider myself agnostic having worked on different ecosystems in blockchain.
5:35
Ethereum, of course, as a system was designed without privacy initially because the tech wasn't there yet.
5:42
And with the advent of zero-knowledge systems and morph encryption and other forms of protection on the chain shielding, where they can add it now.
5:51
So there's definitely a need.
5:54
Last year, I was at an event.

29 MINS LATER

35:17
And yet we kind of seem to see a lot of institutions at least doing something even without privacy and kind of trusting that Ethereum might be transparent, but it seems unlikely to get hacked.

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