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How Matthew Leising Confronted His Suspects in the DAO Attacks
Episode 191
Matthew Leising, a reporter at Bloomberg who began covering crypto in 2015, is out with a new book Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It A…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago
Andre Cronje of Yearn Finance on YFI and the Fair Launch: 'I'm Lazy'
Episode 190
Andre Cronje, the developer of yearn.finance, talks about all things DeFi and the past, present, and future of yEarn. In this episode, he discusses:
what Yearn Finance is, and what led him to deve…Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Olaf Carlson-Wee: 'If There Is a Money-Losing Exploit, the Money Is Gone'
Episode 189
Olaf Carlson-Wee, the founder and CEO of Polychain Capital, goes deep into yield farming, fair launches and how decentralization will upend the traditional notion of the corporation. In this episode,…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Why Decentralized Trading Has 10Xed in a Few Months
Episode 188
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, and Dan Robinson, research partner at Paradigm, discuss the explosion in decentralized exchange activity on automated market makers from $1 bill…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Why Bitcoin Now: Saifedean Ammous on Why Bitcoin is the Most Advanced Form of Money
Episode 187
Saifedean Ammous is an economist and the author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, which has been translated into 20 languages. In this episode, he discusses:
…Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
Why Bitcoin Now: David Chaum and Adam Back Reflect on the Crypto Wars
Episode 186
David Chaum, the inventor of eCash and CEO of xx network, and Adam Back, the inventor of Hashcash and the cofounder and CEO of Blockstream, discuss their involvement in digital currency well before B…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Why Bitcoin Now: The History of Digital Currency
Episode 185
Aaron van Wirdum is the technical editor at Bitcoin Magazine. Finn Brunton is the author of “Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrenc…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Why The Travel Rule Is One Of The Most Significant Regulations In Crypto
Episode 184
Dave Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace, and Siân Jones, Senior Partner at XReg Consulting, give the lowdown on the Financial Action Task Force’s travel rule and how it applies to businesses in the crypto sp…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum's Five-Year Anniversary
Episode 183
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shares his thoughts on the five-year anniversary of Ethereum, challenges with ETH 2.0 and criticisms about DeFi. We discuss:
his thoughts and feelings ahead …Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Camila Russo on the Most Pivotal Moments in Ethereum's History
Episode 182
Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant and author of a new book on Ethereum, "The Infinite Machine," speaks about how currency controls in Argentina got her interested in crypto and explains why she ch…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago