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4 Minute Crypto - Bitcoin Will Skyrocket If Andrew Yang Becomes President
March 25th, 2019 by
DSholla Andrew Yang, who will run as a Democrat candidate for president supports Universal Basic Income which would inflate the money supply and likely cause prices to rise in turn, the price of Bitcoin would likely rise as well. Hosted by hall of fame podcaster, [Gary Leland](https://garyleland.com/category/me/), the 4 Minute Crypto show is a daily crypto news show in 4 minutes or less and will be published on letstalkbitcoin.com every Monday and Friday to start and end your busy week. You ca... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How the World's Top Crypto Hedge Fund Invests - Niraj Pant (Partner, Polychain Capital)
March 4th, 2019 by DSholla Polychain Capital turned $4 Million into $1 Billion and became the world's largest crypto hedge fund. Partner and research lead Niraj Pant joins Blockcrunch on this episode to discuss: - Polychain's investment funnel - Value accrual in tokens - Tokens vs. equity - Fat Protocols, dapps and interoperability - Structuring a hedge/ venture fund Rate and subscribe! Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). Intro music by [Phortissimo](https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo) **Not finance... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How to Think about Liquidity in Crypto Markets - Michael Feng (Hummingbot)
February 26th, 2019 by DSholla Do you really understand crypto if you don't understand liquidity? For investors, liquidity in crypto can be a huge risk - but also a big opportunity. I chat with Michael Feng from CoinAlpha/Hummingbot on: - What market makers do - The problem with tokenizing illiquid assets Market asymmetries in crypto - How traders arbitrage across centralized and decentralized exchanges Rate and subscribe! Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi). Intro music by [Phortissimo](https://soundclo... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How Should We Build a Democracy on the Blockchain? — Chris McCoy (Storecoin)
February 18th, 2019 by DSholla What would the three branches of the government look like...on the blockchain? This week, we continue our discussion on crypto governance with Storecoin, backed by Blocktower and Arrington XRP Capital, to find out. Founder Chris McCoy and I touch on: Why 1-coin-1-vote doesn't work How to creates a p2p democracy and its tradeoffs Whether a system of checks and balances makes sense Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi) Not finance advice. Spartan Capital and/or Jason may or may not have... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How Maker Became Ethereum's Biggest Project - Rune Christensen (Founder, MakerDao)
February 11th, 2019 by DSholla More than $240M worth of ETH are locked up in MakerDao's smart contracts, making it the largest project on Ethereum in terms of value locked up (beyond direct speculation). Founder Rune Christensen joins us on this special episode. We touch on: - The origins of Dai and its adoption so far - How will Maker scale? - Maker's stabilization mechanism and governance - How would Maker bootstrap a new synthesized asset? Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi) Rate and subscribe! **Not... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - Crypto Governance: Where Are We Now? - Gregory Rocco (ConsenSys)
February 4th, 2019 by DSholla Losing track of the million things happening in crypto governance? This is the episode you don't want to miss. Gregory Rocco (@Obstropolos) from ConsenSys gives us a quick recap and his take on the different experiments out there today. We touch on: - Do governance tokens work? - Should we have subjectivity in governance? - The major types of governance models today - On-chain vs. off-chain - pros and cons Not finance advice. Rate and subscribe! Host: Jason Choi (@MrJas... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How Should We Govern Blockchains? - Ryan Zurrer (Web3 Foundation)
January 29th, 2019 by DSholla Ryan Zurrer, Director of the Web3 Foundation and former Principal at Polychain Capital, joins us in discussing one of the most important questions in crypto: how should we govern blockchains? We touch on: How should blockchains be governed? What are the different models of governance? How do we prevent plutocracies? How does Polkadot further the governance debate? ****** Show links: - [Libsyn](http://www.blockcrunch.libsyn.com/) - [Apple Podcast](https://itunes.a... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - $52M Later, Where is Kyber Network Today?
January 22nd, 2019 by DSholla Decentralized exchanges have a problem with liquidity. Kyber Network, a Singaporean based on-chain liquidity project, raised ~$50M in their ICO to tackle this with a unique model. Where are they today? Are people using them? I caught up with Anton Buenavista, senior developer at Kyber, to find out: Kyber's unique approach to managing liquidity How Kyber compares to 0x and other dex projects Where value accrues at the dex layer What is on Kyber's roadmap Not finance advi... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - Tokenizing the World with Blockchain featuring Anthony
January 16th, 2019 by DSholla We chat with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, Founder & Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, a blockchain-centric subsidiary of investment firm Morgan Creek Capital. Follow host Jason Choi on Twitter *@MrJasonChoi* ****** Show links: [Libsyn](bit.ly/blockcrunch_libsyn) [Apple Podcast](bit.ly/blockcrunch_apple) [Stitcher](bit.ly/blockcrunch_stitcher) [Spotify](bit.ly/blockcrunch_spotify) ****** Intro music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo Sound eng... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - VCs Take On Decentralized Finance With Marc Weinstein & Roy Lerner of Wave Financial
January 15th, 2019 by DSholla Projects like MakerDao, dYdX and Dharma are creating a future of decentralized finance. Beyond the ideology and tech - how likely is "DeFi" to succeed? Marc Weinstein and Roy Lerner - investors from Wavemaker Partners, a VC fund with over $265M in AUM - to discuss: An honest critique of DeFi today How DeFi may be recreate the same problems we have in our legacy financial system What institutions think of DeFi projects Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi) ****** ... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How Institutional Investors Research Crypto Featuring Tom Shaughnessy
January 7th, 2019 by DSholla Hosted by crypto researcher Jason Choi, The Blockcrunch is a podcast targeting investors, builders, and people who are interested in pursuing a career in the crypto space. Currently, many existing podcasts in the blockchain space are recorded conversations lasting 50–90 minutes, which far exceed the length of the average work commute. For Blockcrunch, we decided to capture the most important ideas championed by prominent founders and investors within 20 minutes, targeting busier people ... Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #7 - Cambodia and the Fall of its Free Press
October 22nd, 2018 by DSholla **"I think you need to keep alive some sort of a citizen journalist concept, so that eventually, if there is some kind of a civil-society movement, there’s something to hold it together, a glue that will hold it together."** **—David Andelman** Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #36 An Interview with Caitlin Long & Saifedean Ammous
September 28th, 2018 by DSholla **“Negative interest rates are purely a construct of the artificiality of the monetary system. There is going to a major bond crash - the challenge is that this could be years if not decades away, or it could be tomorrow.”** **— Caitlin Long** Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #35 An Interview with Jake Chervinsky
September 21st, 2018 by DSholla **“I am skeptical about this concept of doing a securities issuance and then trying to escape liability by converting the token you used for that issuance into something else, this is not how liability works. If you violate the securities law you are liable no matter what you do afterwards.”** **— Jake Chervinsky** Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #34 An Interview with Riccardo “FluffyPony” Spagni from Monero & Tari
September 14th, 2018 by DSholla **“Over the last 10 to 15 years there has been an uprising of people who value privacy, not because they are weird and want to go and hide in the woods, ordinary citizens who are not happy with how much data they are handing over.”** **— Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Thu 13th September 2018 Company: Tari (and Monero core team member) Role: Co-founder David Chaum said that “Privacy is tied to human potential, an important as... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #33 An Interview with Kyle Samani
September 7th, 2018 by DSholla **“Bitcoin is not going to zero, I don’t even think Bitcoin is going to be irrelevant, I do think in 10 years time there will be at least one asset worth materially more money than Bitcoin.”** **— Kyle Samani** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Wed 5th September 2018 Company: Multicoin Capital Role: Founding Partner Kyle first appeared on the What Bitcoin Did podcast in March, where we discussed his views on regulation in Crypto, institutional inflows and hi... Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #6 - Government & Regulation
September 7th, 2018 by DSholla **"I don’t think crypto is the end all be all, but there is no one technology that is. However, if we can provide capital to people who for generations have been unable to have access to it, that’s a major win for everybody."** **—John Collins** Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #5 - The East
September 4th, 2018 by DSholla **"We realized, blockchain is something different...the internet of value can be created by this new technology."** **—Jack Lee** Distributed Dialogues is a collaborative show between the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network and Distributed magazine. In each episode we’ll introduce you to people who are using blockchain technology to change the way we interact with the world around us. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #32 An Interview with Tuur Demeester
September 4th, 2018 by DSholla **“The overall thing I am excited about is to have this free market in money, it amazes me.”** **— Tuur Demeester** Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #4 New Markets
August 24th, 2018 by DSholla **"It was extremely difficult to create new books before the invention of the printing press. It was expensive and unsystematic. After the printing press, disseminating new books across the world became much simpler. The prices of books dropped and more people started reading. It’s the same way with the financial market today... It’s kind of like a world where there is only a couple hundred books, it’s not nearly as interesting as it could be."** **—Joey Krug** Read More
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