Steven Becker, president and chief operating officer of the Maker Foundation, discusses the MakerDAO system’s transition to multi-collateral Dai, what benefits it gets from having multiple collateral types, why it[…]
Category: 2019
An Interview With the Anonymous Developer of HKmap.live
This episode features an email interview with Kuma, the pseudonymous administrator of HKmap.live, a site showing a real-time crowd-sourced map of protests in Hong Kong, which Kuma believes is the first[…]
Why Employees Cheered After Jihan Wu’s Coup at Bitmain
Wolfie Zhao, Asia editor at CoinDesk, details how Jihan Wu ousted his cofounder Micree Zhan at the Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain last week, how he justified the coup at a[…]
Why the Digital Yuan Could One Day Be Seen as a Blunder
Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, explains why he believes China’s new pro-blockchain stance could turn out to be a blunder for the country and why[…]
How the Hong Kong Protests Gave a Boost to Gods Unchained
James Ferguson, CEO of Immutable, the creators of Gods Unchained, talks about how the video game recently doubled its number of users. In early October, after a winner of a[…]
How Bitcoin Led to the Demise of the Largest Child Porn Site
Jonathan Levin, the cofounder and chief strategy officer of Chainalysis, describes how the blockchain analytics firm helped the IRS identify the administrator of the largest child porn website in the[…]
Althea Network: How Ethereum Is Used in the Real World
From DevCon 5 in Osaka, Japan, Deborah Simpier, COO and cofounder of Althea Network, describes how this decentralized internet service provider works, what problem it’s trying to solve, and how[…]
How Block.One Got Away With Just a $24 Million Penalty
Heads up, everybody! We are launching a weekly news recap, so stay tuned after the interview to find out about the top stories in crypto this week! (Links below.) Zachary[…]
Nick Tomaino on Why He Is Skeptical Libra Will Be Significant
Nick Tomaino, general partner of 1confirmation, discusses his firm’s second fund of $45 million, announced this week, how prospective LPs have changed from 2017 to 2019, and what types of[…]
How Tether’s Surge on Ethereum Is Affecting Bitcoin
Jacob Franek, cofounder and COO of Coin Metrics, discusses why daily transaction fees on Ethereum have surpassed those on Bitcoin, what daily transaction fees reflect generally about a blockchain, why[…]
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