A valid and ongoing critique of blockchain technology is that it’s not sufficiently decentralized, as Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike recently pointed out. Here is one firm, Livepeer, that is among a growing number of startups that are making decentralization a founding principle.
Vlad Zamfir has been around Ethereum from the very beginning and isn’t shy in his opinions of its shortcomings.
A wide-ranging conversation where we touch on the hellscape of southern Florida, the hacker code of ‘screws not glue,’ musical theater and the value of art in a digital world
A fascinating conversation with Taylor Monahan where we cover Occupy Wall Street, strict but loving mothers, peeing in water bottles and how crypto can use more empathy.
We hear from the man herding all the cats as Ethereum core developers near the historic switch to ETH 2.0. But more than that we learn of Tim’s punk-rock t-shirt business, how a house painter who hoarded Iraqi Dinars introduced him to Bitcoin and what Tim hopes for a year from now in Ethereum.
An exclusive interview with Ryan Zurrer who just bought Beeple’s “Human One” NFT for $29 million, including “proof of artwork” and Metcalfe’s Law
Part 2 in the saga of Bright Moments, an NFT gallery founded by Seth Goldstein in Venice, California that was rocked in August when an insider made off with $4.3 million worth of its digital art.
Part 2 of my conversation with Phil Daian where we get into the DAO hack of 2016, comment on Emin Gun Sirer’s boyish charm and dive in to the weeds on miner extractable value, or MEV
A fascinating chat with one of the most interesting people in all of crypto. And Phil is only getting started.
The latest craziness in the NFT world of Crypto Punks where a seemingly record-breaking sale turns out to be a wash trade
A chat with David about the crypto bear market and the real treasure of the friends he made along the way, I propose to form Keg DAO and he shoots it down and we hear about him buying Ether all the way down in 2018
When 309 digital files went missing in August from the Bright Moments art gallery the question immediately arose: were they stolen?