Aug 6, 2019

Monero's lead maintainer, Ric Spagni, joins us on a provocative discussion on digital privacy, Monero, and his latest venture, Tari. We discuss:

• Active vs. passive surveillance
• Why privacy is a fundamental human right
• Latest research efforts on Monero
• Why tokenized securities are exciting

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Jul 31, 2019

Arthur Breitman of Tezos joins us in breaking down the common critiques for on-chain governance in this deeply insightful and provocative episode. We talk about:

• Governance by fork vs on-chain governance
• Why democracy doesn't work in blockchains
• Tightly- and loosely-coupled voting
• The issue with vote buying/...

Jul 5, 2019

We continue our dive into blockchain interoperability!

I speak with Blocknet's co-founder Arlyn Culwick on how their cross-chain protocol works, and why Blocknet takes a Layer 2 approach (instead of Polkadot/Cosmos' Layer 1) to interoperability. We discuss:

• Arlyn's concerns with Polkadot and Cosmos
• Why Blocknet...

Jun 17, 2019

Edgeware is Polkadot's first smart contracting parachain. Co-founder Dillon Chen and I dive deep into the project and discuss:

• What is Edgeware and how is it related to Polkadot?
• Why is Edgeware building on Substrate?
• How does Edgeware think about governance?
• Lockdrop vs. airdrop vs. merkle mine

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Jun 10, 2019

Ampleforth is one of the most unique projects I've seen - supposedly price stable, but not quite a stablecoin either. Ahead of their Bitfinex IEO, co-founder Brendon Iles joins me in discussing: 

• What is Ampleforth and "smart commodity money"?
• The unique cryptoeconomics behind AMPL
• Why do an IEO on Bitfinex?

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