Linda Xie, cofounder at Scalar Capital, talks about what she noticed at ETHBerlin, why it made her suppose Ethereum’s first-mover benefit could also be laborious for different sensible contract platforms to beat and the way the crypto group in Berlin differed from that of Silicon Valley. She additionally talked about why Scalar Capital is concentrated on privateness cash, how her expertise at Coinbase knowledgeable that, and what influence it will have on her investments if a extra broadly used coin like Bitcoin adopted privateness options. Lastly, she talked about frequent errors crypto groups are making and what recommendation she finds herself generally giving these days.
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Episode hyperlinks:
Linda Xie: https://twitter.com/ljxie
Scalar Capital: https://scalar.capital
Linda’s ideas on the Ethereum hackathons she’s attended during the last 12 months, together with ETHBerlin: https://medium.com/@linda.xie/building-a-developer-community-66e6a47674d7
Unchained interview with Dominic Williams of Dfinity: http://unchainedpodcast.co/dfinitys-dominic-williams-on-how-its-blockchain-nervous-system-is-not-an-ai-ep78
Unchained interviews with a number of decentralized finance tasks being constructed on Ethereum:
Compound: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-youll-earn-interest-on-your-crypto-with-compound-ep82
Dharma: http://unchainedpodcast.co/nadav-hollander-on-how-dharma-could-create-new-forms-of-debt-ep80
0x: http://unchainedpodcast.co/will-warren-of-0x-on-why-decentralized-exchanges-are-the-future
Unchained interview with Zooko Wilcox of Zcash: http://unchainedpodcast.co/zcashs-zooko-wilcox-on-why-he-believes-privacy-coins-will-be-used-more-for-good-than-bad