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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 -
POV Crypto - The Bargain of Block Reward Funding with Andrew Yang
August 2nd, 2019 by DSholla Andrew Yang (not the presidential candidate) comes to POV Crypto to discuss the faustian bargain that is block-reward funding. WIth EIP 2025 in the rear-view mirror, and Zooko of Z-Cash proposing a second dev-fund, POV Crypto goes through the pros and cons of on-chain funding. Read More -
POV Crypto - Chatting Ethereum and Bitcoin, with Colin Harper
July 30th, 2019 by DSholla Colin Harper, journalist for BTC Media, and a "softcore" Bitcoin maximalist, comes to POV to discuss a wide variety of subjects. Enjoy a laid back episode of general chatter and discussion of Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Libra topics! Read More -
POV Crypto - Ether: The Triple-Point Asset with Ryan Sean Adams
July 25th, 2019 by DSholla There are 3 asset superclasses, as defined by Robert Greer in his 1997 paper “What is an Asset Class, Anyway?”. Ether fills nicely into all 3 asset superclasses, and is the only asset to ever do this. Ryan Sean Adams comes to POV to walk through each category, and talk about how Ether’s value proposition fits each one. Read More -
POV Crypto: Decred — Splitting the Difference Between Bitcoin and Ethereum with Luke Powell
July 22nd, 2019 by DSholla Luke Powell, a developer on the Decred project, comes to POV Crypto to provide the Decred Perspective! Decred is a unique project in the space, with an enthusiastic developer community, and a well-defined value proposition. David and Christian interview Luke, and find out what it's like to be in the Decred community, while testing Luke's beliefs and assumptions about the way Decred is designed. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Top 5 Cheapest Countries to Mine Bitcoin
July 19th, 2019 by DSholla Mining Bitcoin can be a profitable business, and there are a handful of countries where it can be even more profitable due to their low cost of electricity. Here are the five cheapest places on the planet to mine Bitcoin. Read More -
POV Crypto: Ethereum vs. Bitcoin with Matt Odell
July 17th, 2019 by DSholla Matt Odell, Host of Tales from the Crypt, comes to POV Crypto to test his sparring skills! Matt is a long-time Bitcoiner, and orginator of the famous meme "stacking sats". Christian and David ask Matt about his views on Memes and memetic influence. They discuss how memes have developed in crypto history, and the power of memes at large! Then Matt and David go an a gamut of topics, generally Matt attacking Ethereum and David defending. 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 -
POV Crypto: Truffle - Making Ethereum Sweet with Tim Coulter
July 12th, 2019 by DSholla Tim Coulter, the founder and CEO of Truffle Suite and Trufflecon, comes on to POV Crypto to discuss how he is working to make building on blockchains easier and better. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Was Benjamin Franklin The Bitcoin Miner Of His Day?
July 11th, 2019 by DSholla Benjamin Franklin started printing paper money in 1726, making him arguably, the Bitcoin miner of his time. 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 -
POV Crypto: Fight Night V - Price and Confusion
July 8th, 2019 by DSholla In this episode of Fight Night, David and Christian discuss: - The BTC/USD Chart - The ETH/BTC and ETH/USD Chart - Why someone would want to store value in BTC - What is next for ETH Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Bitcoin and Blockchain Featured on Jeopardy
July 5th, 2019 by DSholla Jeopardy host Alex Trebek offered the answer “Bitcoin uses this technology as its transaction record.” The correct response, of course, was blockchain, the distributed ledger technology most cryptos are built on and was created by Satoshi Nakamoto alongside Bitcoin. 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 -
4 Minute Crypto - What is Bitcoin Oil?
July 1st, 2019 by DSholla It seems someone has decided to create a new fork of Bitcoin, which makes very little to no sense at all. Bitcoin Oil is the name of the new fork, and it appears to be a proof of stake currency. Read More -
POV Crypto: Fight Night IV - BTC on Ethereum
July 1st, 2019 by DSholla In this episode of Fight Night, David, Christian, and guest Michael Taiberg discuss: the Bitcoin 2019 conference, types of talks at the conference, Bitcoin lack of 2nd layer programming solutions, Ethereum has all the Defi apps that Bitcoin needs, Ethereum will scale Bitcoin, all BTC will migrate to Ethereum, and security in blockchains. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Facebook’s Libra Will Be A Good Thing For Bitcoin
June 21st, 2019 by DSholla Facebook has in excess of 2 billion users, so it stands to reason that a digital payment system on their platform will increase awareness of cryptos for millions of people that previously considered it only for geeks. You can find all episodes of the show by visiting [4minutecrypto.com](www.4minutecrypto.com). Read More -
Libra: Forking the Fed
June 21st, 2019 by DSholla Facebook has announced their plans to build Libra, a new digital currency On the surface, Libra seems to be Facebook’s new innovation and experimentation of new products. However after peeling back the layers, Libra has significant implications for the state of the world, and throws another curveball into already chaotic political and technological climate we find ourselves in. Read More -
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 -
The Frontier of Dai, with Mariano Conti
June 18th, 2019 by DSholla Mariano Conti is an Argentine developer for MakerDAO. He works as the head of Oracles for the MakerDAO system, and receives his paycheck in Dai. Mariano takes David and Christian though his experiences using crypto out of necessity, rather than speculation. David and Christian ask Mariano to compare using Bitcoin vs using Dai as a money for his own personal finances. We also discuss how Mariano leverages Ethereum applications such as DYDX to earn interest on his capital. Read More
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