TheTerran
First time for a crypto to be used in the mainstream.....the real mainstream instead of a promise of that in the future.....that could be huge. I also like the way that Kik appears to understand crypto very well and they seem intelligent on this.
Responses under the show are always Adam (FYI) RedHat didn't invent linux, and it didn't start the linux network effect. Those were precursors before someone could build a profitable, real business on what was a project transitioning from enthusiast...
Globe99
Interesting take, I guess this is Adam? (Using first-person phrasing from a show's account makes things a little confusing ;) There are some points to respond to here: Control + Profit are pretty vital parts of any entrepreneurial enterprise. Without...
It depends on how the Waves project is managed and developed. protocol level DEX's may be better in this respect than smart contract ones on L2
I recently did a few recordings for a new show called TokenPoints, which specifically talks with people doing Non-Fungible Token projects. On episode 1 we discussed this question of "How much control does a project need in the beginning, and should t...
Control + Profit are pretty vital parts of any entrepreneurial enterprise. Without those as motivators to the apparently one guy who built it or the people who bought it from him, do you think Etherdelta would exist or be as successful? Without con...
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 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 DSholla "Countries are moving towards knowledge as their main source of income because we can't rely, as a mining country or an oil country, just on our natural resources. We need to definitely take into account how technology is going to be part of the new Venezuela that we're going to rebuild once this ends."
—Antonio Ledezma
Welcome to Season Two of Distributed Dialogues. This season was inspired by the Human Rights Foundation’s Oslo Freedom Forum, focusing on the intersection b...
Read More 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 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 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 DSholla “I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building.”
— Dan Held
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Thursday 25th October
Company: Picks & Shovels
Role: Co-founder and Director of BD
It is 10 years since Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in that time the protocol has survived so much: state-level bans, the Mt. Gox collapse, the closing of the Silk Road and civil war to name a few. Bitcoin h...
Read More 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 DSholla "We have to learn from history and we want people to understand to not forget about history, what lessons we have to learn, and to make a new impact on society."
—Fang Zheng
"If the hope for Google in 2010 was, if we pull out of this market, maybe it'll encourage them [China] to reform. If that was the hope, that has definitely not come to pass and if anything the opposite has happened."
—Megha Rajagopalan
"If the Chinese government comes to me and says 'hand me over a user's data and everything you have on them', I have nothing on them because Graphite doesn't have any servers, doesn't have a database and the user stores all of the data himself and is encrypted. So even if I could point a government to where the data is located, it would be encrypted and the user is literally the only person that can decrypt it."
—Justin Hunter
Read More 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 MoreTheTerran
First time for a crypto to be used in the mainstream.....the real mainstream instead of a promise of that in the future.....that could be huge. I also like the way that Kik appears to understand crypto very well and they seem intelligent on this.
Responses under the show are always Adam (FYI) RedHat didn't invent linux, and it didn't start the linux network effect. Those were precursors before someone could build a profitable, real business on what was a project transitioning from enthusiast...
Globe99
Interesting take, I guess this is Adam? (Using first-person phrasing from a show's account makes things a little confusing ;) There are some points to respond to here: Control + Profit are pretty vital parts of any entrepreneurial enterprise. Without...
It depends on how the Waves project is managed and developed. protocol level DEX's may be better in this respect than smart contract ones on L2
I recently did a few recordings for a new show called TokenPoints, which specifically talks with people doing Non-Fungible Token projects. On episode 1 we discussed this question of "How much control does a project need in the beginning, and should t...
Control + Profit are pretty vital parts of any entrepreneurial enterprise. Without those as motivators to the apparently one guy who built it or the people who bought it from him, do you think Etherdelta would exist or be as successful? Without con...
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