From the Front Page - Chain Reaction
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Chain Reaction Podcast: Blockstack's Muneeb Ali on Building a Decentralized AWS to Host a Potential Facebook Killer
June 20th, 2019 by
DSholla Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Muneeb Ali the CEO and Cofounder of Blockstack PBC. Blockstack is a high profile project in the space, with the goal of creating a decentralized computing network and app ecosystem. To differentiate this episode vs other podcasts, I wanted to focus on Blockstacks’ end goals - being potentially creating a new decentralized version of Amazon Web Services which hosts basically the worlds business and consumer workloa... Read More -
Chain Reaction - IDEX's Alex Wearn: A Sleeping Giant's Plan To Dominate Every Centralized Crypto Exchange
July 1st, 2019 by DSholla Host Tom Shaughnessy of [Delphi Digital](/fiftyonepercent/episode/update/id/DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Alex Wearn, the Co-Founder & CEO of IDEX. This is a very interesting episode as we discuss how IDEX, a sleeping giant, grew to become the largest decentralized exchange and smart contract on Ethereum. We discuss competition with other DEXs, centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase and hybrid competition. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Harmony's Nick White: Mainnet Launch Is The First Step Towards Full Proof-of-Stake and Sharding
July 11th, 2019 by DSholla Harmony is described as a fast and secure blockchain and it leverages a lot of newer tech such as Proof of Stake, Sharding and cross shard communications, granted not all of this tech is fully launched yet. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Delphi Digital's Kevin Kelly: The Perfect Storm for Bitcoin
July 16th, 2019 by DSholla Kevin offers his take on the global backdrop, everything from underfunded pensions to global monetary policy and even the eventual potential dethroning of king dollar. We go on to where Kevin believes crypto and the global economy will co-exist in the future and what would happen to crypto if a recession hits. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Gregory Rocco and Jacob Arluck: Tezos' Social Contract
July 24th, 2019 by DSholla Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Gregory Rocco from ConsenSys Alpine Group and Jacob Arluck from TQ Group, a group with the goal of advancing the Tezos Ecosystem, on for an episode to discuss Rocco’s recent post on Tezos’ social contract and for recent updates on Tezos. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Kadena's Founder and CEO Will Martino: A Hybrid Blockchain Built For Scale
July 31st, 2019 by DSholla Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Kadena's Founder and CEO Will Martino. Kadena is described as offering the fastest, safest and most scalable hybrid blockchain technology stack for entrepreneurs. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Ryan Zurrer: Response To Tom's Polkadot Report, Web3 and Lessons Learned In China
August 5th, 2019 by DSholla This was an awesome episode where we discuss everything from how the Web3 foundation is ushering in the decentralized web where users control their data to Polkadot, a high profile interoperability project. I recently wrote a post on Polkadot exploring my concerns, so it was great to discuss them with Ryan. The post is linked in the show notes below. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Hasu and Ryan Sean Adams: Bitcoin & Ethereum: A Rational Conversation Between Two Bulls
August 13th, 2019 by DSholla Between the echo chambers of crypto twitter and the pointless yelling matches on other mediums, this was a thoughtful and constructive conversation between two bulls on the similarities and differences on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Arca's Jeff Dorman: Wall Street Veteran Co-Founds A Crypto Fund
August 16th, 2019 by DSholla On this episode, we discuss Jeff's experience at Lehman, Merril, Citadel, and now as the co-founder and CIO of Arca, a crypto-focused fund. This episode cover's Jeffs immense focus on bringing his experience at prior firms to the crypto realm. Read More -
Chain Reaction - A Multi-Strategy Fund Seeking Alpha and The LEO Bull Case with Kyle Davies
August 23rd, 2019 by
BTCMedia This was an excellent discussion into Kyle's storied finance background and how he is using that to drive alpha in Crypto. Three Arrows Capital goes way beyond long and short positions so it was great to hear all of the ways the fund is driving returns across an array of methods. We also get into the case for LEO, Bitfinex's native token. Read More -
Chain Reaction: SKALE’S Jack O'Holleran on Elastic Sidechains Enabling Massive Scale For dApps on Ethereum
September 3rd, 2019 by BTCMedia On this episode, we dive into how SKALE's elastic sidechains can enable massively scalable decentralized applications. Read More -
Chain Reaction: Ren's Loong Wang and co-host Medio Demarco on Unchaining Liquidity with Private Interoperability
September 5th, 2019 by BTCMedia Ren is described as the first and only open protocol that provides access to inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications. The protocol allows users to transfer tokens between any blockchain, is ~100x faster than atomic swaps and integrates into existing infrastructure. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Cosmos' Sunny Aggarwal: Byzantine Battalion Is Hacking Projects For The Greater Good
September 15th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Sunny Aggarwal, a researcher and core developer at Tendermint and Cosmos and the founder of the Byzantine Battalion. We discuss Sunny's latest project: how the Byzantine Battalion is hacking projects for the greater good. The Battalion can hack projects to test their merits, security and so much more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Joey Krug: Predicting Augur's Future and Pantera's Investment Thesis
September 24th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host [Tom Shaughnessy](https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119) of [Delphi Digital](DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Joey Krug, the co-founder of the predictions protocol Augur and the Co-CIO of Pantera, one of the space's largest group of funds. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Alex Lindgren: Crypto Regulatory Complexities and Consequences
October 1st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host [Tom Shaughnessy](https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119) of [Delphi Digital](DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Alex Lindgren, a Partner at Lindgren, Lindgren, Oehm & You LLP. On this episode we discuss the legal complexities projects and teams in the space have to navigate, as well as the consequences. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Going Down the Bitcoin Mining and Security Rabbit Hole with Harry Sudock and Nick Sandomeno
October 14th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Harry Sudock, a director of strategy at Griid Infrastructure (Bitcoin Mining Firm) and Nick Sandomeno who is a financial planning analyst at Astorino Financial Group. Read More -
Chain Reaction: Network Lifecycle Investing with Jake Brukhman
October 22nd, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Jake Brukhman, the founder of Coinfund a crypto fund launched in 2015. On this episode we discuss Jake's investing thesis, what he's most interested in now, and his entire stance on Network Lifecycle Investing. If you're looking to learn from the best, this is the episode for you. Read More -
Chain Reaction: Vitalik Buterin on ETH 2.0
October 24th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital (DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum to discuss his recent post titled: Eth2 shard chain simplification proposal. On this episode we discuss Vitalik's view on how simplified sharding, and optimistic rollups could drive 100k transactions per second in one year. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Diogo Monica on How Anchorage Can Secure Trillions In Crypto
November 3rd, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Diogo Monica to discuss Anchorage, a leading crypto custodian that is built to secure trillions in assets. Anchorage was founded on the belief that technical problems require technical solutions. To help financial institutions invest securely in digital assets, we are building the first crypto-native custodian. Follow Tom on Twitter [@Shaughnessy119](https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119) Follow Diogo on Twitter [@diogomonica](https://t... Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Amentum's Steven Mckie on Sustainable Crypto Fund Investing
November 6th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Steven McKie, the GP and MD at Amentum. In this episode we go through Steven's career, why he started Amentum, his process for selecting investments, what he looks for in founders and so much more. This episode is a deep dive into the minds of one of the earliest investors in the space, and how he built his fund. Read More
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