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What Bitcoin Did #48 Jesse Powell is Building a Culture of Crypto Values at Kraken
November 16th, 2018 by
DSholla **“It is not just about making money. We didn’t start this company to make PayPal 2.0.”** **— Jesse Powell** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Tuesday 13th Nov, 2018 Company: Kraken Role: CEO Volatility in crypto is reflected in the businesses which have been built upon it. Only recently have we seen this volatility with Bitmain, where during the bull run of 2017 the business was generated $billions in revenue and profit, but as the market has corrected, bot... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #47 Adam Back on a Decade of Bitcoin
November 13th, 2018 by DSholla **“There are only going to be 21 million coins, there are billions of people in the world, some reasonable percentage of who might find it interesting to own a piece of Bitcoin.”** **— Adam Back** Interview location: London Interview date: Friday 9th Nov, 2018 Company: Blockstream Role: CEO The Bitcoin whitepaper has eight references for eight projects and technologies which enabled and inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin. One of those references is for Adam B... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #46 Francis Pouliot on the Network Effect of Money and Why Tokens Are Scams
November 9th, 2018 by DSholla **“Humanity needed to discover what is the best form of money.”** **— Francis Pouliot** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Wednesday 7th Nov, 2018 Company: Satoshi Portal & Bylls.com Role: CEO Crypto tokens have come under increasing scrutiny over a range of issues: - Are they unregistered securities? - Do they hold any intrinsic value? - Can they be a medium of exchange when prices are volatile? - Are they scams? Francis Pouliet, CEO of Satoshi ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #45 Fixing Online Advertising With Brendan Eich
November 6th, 2018 by DSholla **“The system is so lacking in integrity, at least 20% of $100bn is going to fraud.”** **— Brendan Eich** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Friday 2nd November Company: Brave & Basic Attention Token Role: CEO/President The online advertising model is broken all parties are hurting: Users encounter a degraded experience as web pages take longer to load - leading to an increase in mobile data charges Publishers are losing revenue to fraud, and ad blockers ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #44 Debunking Economics and Why Bitcoin Will Fail With Steve Keen
November 5th, 2018 by DSholla **“One of the great weaknesses of the human species is we have this belief of a perfect world.”** **— Steve Keen** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Monday 29th October Project: Debunking Economics Steve Keen is challenging modern economic theory which led us into the 2008 crisis. With his two books: Debunking Economics and Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis, Steve outlines the inherent flaws in the capitalist system which are required to make them work. Bi... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #42 Crypto Custody With Jeremy Welch & Alena Vranova
October 30th, 2018 by DSholla **“Bitcoin does form the dominant position, it has the most hash power, it is the currency in terms of design, decentralisation, or ability for governments or corporate actors to control it, it is the strongest, therefor everything relies on Bitcoin’s survival.”** **— Jeremy Welch** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Saturday 27th October Company: Casa Role: Founder (Jeremy Welch), Strategy (Alena Vranova) As the value of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies increase... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #41 Bitmain's IPO With Samson Mow & Katherine Wu
October 27th, 2018 by DSholla **“I think that they don’t want to IPO right now, but they have no choice because they raised with the expectation that they would IPO, so they had to file and it had to look good, or as good as they could make it look.”** **— Samson Mow** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Thursday 18th October Company: Blockstream (Samson Mow), Messari (Katherine Wu) Role: Chief Strategy Office (Samson Mow), Director of Business Development (Katherine Wu) The Bitmain IPO wa... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #40 An Interview with Jameson Lopp
October 23rd, 2018 by DSholla **“If you want to protect yourself from this over arching legal system then you will want to hide as much of your activity as possible.”** **— Jameson Lopp** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Thursday 18th October In his book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, George Orwell wrote about a dystopian future where the government subjects the population to omnipresent surveillance. That day is here, but the surveillance isn’t just that it's operated by the gover... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #39 An Interview with Giacomo Zucco
October 19th, 2018 by DSholla **“Ethereum itself is not an experiment in something new, because they tried to implement any bad idea that was already discussed with Bitcoin in 2013.”** **— Giacomo Zucco** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Tuesday 16th October 2018 Giacomo Zucco is a proud Bitcoin Maximalist, and his presentation on the subject at the Honey Badger conference in Riga led to mixed reactions. Some called out the stupidity of Bitcoin Maximalism specifically concerning his slide: The ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #38 An Interview with Nic Carter
October 12th, 2018 by DSholla **“Money might be the only case where you desperately need to radically decentralise the set of people who can create and have influence over the creation schedule.”** **— Nic Carter** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Wednesday 10th October 2018 Union Square Ventures posted a blog post this week titled The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase, shining a light on the imbalance between infrastructure work in crypto and DApp usage. There is an abundance of blockchain scal... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #37 An Interview with Jimmy Song
October 5th, 2018 by DSholla **“This is why proof of work needs to be expensive, if it is cheap you can roll back things easily. You want it to be very difficult to change history. The only way to make it difficult to change history is to make the process of writing the current history very expensive.”** **— Jimmy Song** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Monday 1st October 2018 The recent Bitcoin protocol bug, CVE-2018-1744, received considerable amounts of alarmist press, “For less than $80,... 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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