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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 -
What Bitcoin Did #31 An Interview with Ari Paul
August 24th, 2018 by DSholla **“I really value experimentation, we are so nascent in this industry, there are so many unknowns that I think bad experiments are valuable. So, EOS is a radical experiment in governance, if it fails due to poor engineering, we won’t learn anything but if it fails for governance reasons we’re going to learn a lot from it.”** **— Ari Paul** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Fri 17th August 2018 Company: BlockTower Capital Role: CIO Eight months into a Crypt... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #30 An Interview with Vortex
August 17th, 2018 by DSholla **“We’re going towards this central, totalitarian, surveillance, police state with the central banking system we have.”** **— Vortex** Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #3 - Privacy & Trust
August 10th, 2018 by DSholla "Remember the story of Frankenstein. Frankenstein wasn’t the monster, Dr. Frankenstein was the young scientist who was so excited about what he could build that he didn’t foresee the possible ramifications… I hope that the new age coming to mankind remains one where the consent of the governed still matters." -Patrick Byrne Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #29 An Interview with Jamie Burke
August 10th, 2018 by DSholla **“It is probably going to be true, as in most tech cycles that the first attempts at something won’t be the ones that succeed.”** **— Jamie Burke** Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #2 - Checks And Balances
August 7th, 2018 by DSholla "There's a natural inclination to believe humans or structures are the problem, that if we just wrote software that made things run automatically and such malfeasance impossible, then we would end up in some gorgeous world. I think there's a lot to that concept, but you don't need to turn the keys over to the algorithms to make that happen." —Brian Behlendorf Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #28 An Interview with Pierre Rochard
August 6th, 2018 by DSholla **“Based on our understanding of monerary economics, the outcome will be such that most of the value will accrue to one coin and one coin will at the very least be the world reserve currency, and even more than that, the one global money.”** **— Pierre Rochard** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Sun 29th July 2018 From: Noded Bitcoin Podcast & Nakomoto Institute In December 2016, I opened a Coinbase account to buy Bitcoin. It was a straightforward process: Google... Read More -
DD Episode #1 - Crypto Journalism
August 3rd, 2018 by
dshokouhi **"Every individual person that buys into cryptocurrencies needs to do their own research. You hear this all the time, but that is the truth of the matter. If you're going to put your money in, you should really understand what you are buying. You need to understand all the ways it could go right. You need to understand all the ways it could go wrong. You need to be completely willing to go along for the ride."** **—Laura Shin** Distributed Dialogues is a collaborative show between the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network and Distributed magazine. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #27 An Interview with Lyn Ulbricht
July 27th, 2018 by DSholla **“That’s why the founders wrote the 6th ammendment, to protect the accused from judges, just on their own, deciding that something is true without the ruling of 12 jury members.”** **— Lyn Ulbricht** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Tue 23rd July 2018 Campaign: Free Ross I first met Lyn Ulbricht in Austin in March earlier this year to discuss the case of her son, Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online marketplace: The Silk Road. Our interview was before the dec... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #26 An Interview with Richard Burton
July 23rd, 2018 by DSholla **“I think the notion of a protocol which has 21 data centres to which you delegate priority to run smart contracts is a really interesting experiment, but nobody has explained to me why you need $4bn to run that experiment.”** **— Richard Burton** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Wed 18th July 2018 Company: Balanced Software Role: CEO Nothing can prepare you for running your first startup. After the excitement of raising capital, founders are thrown into a race ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #25 An Interview with Toby Simpson
July 16th, 2018 by DSholla **“I don’t like calling it artificial intelligence as it implies it is not real. At some point, we will create this digital intelligence, and it will think, communicate and exist. I think that is an exciting thing and can be something which transforms our lives in all sorts of positive ways.”** **— Toby Simpson** Interview location: Cambridge, UK Interview date: Tue 10th Jul 2018 Company: Fetch.ai Role: Co-founder and CTO In 2014 Stephen Hawking told the BBC: "The developmen... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #24 An Interview with Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert
July 6th, 2018 by DSholla **“There is no win for the UK economically, you can change the colour of your passport and you might feel good, but you are not going to have any economic benefit at all from Brexit.”** **— Max Keiser** Interview location: London, UK Interview date: Thu 28th Jun 2018 In 2010, Max Keiser called JP Morgan Chase "the biggest financial terrorist on Wall Street" and started a campaign to crash the bank by encouraging people to buy Silver, leaving JP Morgan with a significant short po... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #23 An Interview with Michael Sonnenshein
July 3rd, 2018 by DSholla **“The taboo nature of the asset class has been shrugged off…Goldman Sachs invested with Digital Currency Group in Circle and as soon as they did that it provided enough cover for pretty much every other bank or financial institution to get involved in the space.”** **— Michael Sonnenshein** The institutional relationship with Crypto Assets has been one of light touch. Where banks had been dismissive of Bitcoin, but open to the opportunities with blockchain, the demand from institutional investors has contributed towards the changing banking narrative towards Crypto. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #22 An Interview With Erik Vorhees
June 28th, 2018 by DSholla **“Things like money, education and healthcare are super important, that is why governments shouldn’t be involved in them whatsoever.”** **— Erik Voorhees** The Crypto space appeals to the libertarian ideals of separating money and state. Those who I have met on my podcasting journey consistently say that same thing, from tax being theft to not wanting their money stolen to pay for the war machine. Read More -
Disruptek.info: Andreas Antonopoulos Makes a Case Against Reputation and Identity Systems
December 19th, 2015 by
JuanS.Galt Andreas Antonopoulos makes the case against reputation and identity systems, arguing that with the invention of blockchains, multisignature transactions, and smart contracts, we can minimize default risk without reputation. Read More
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