Soona Amhaz of Token Day by day talks about how we have misused the phrase decentralization and stretched it to the purpose of meaninglessness. She discusses how sure firms misrepresent being decentralized and walks us by way of some deceptive graphs put out by Ripple and EOS. She additionally explains why, when a superb metric turns into a goal, folks will then recreation it, and why we must be open to tasks changing into decentralized over time.
We additionally discuss tribalism, and why it is dangerous in just some situations — like for buyers — however good for different teams of individuals within the crypto house. Plus, we dish about Nouriel Roubini’s and Peter Van Valkenburgh’s testimony to the Senate on cryptocurrencies.
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Episode hyperlinks:
Soona Amhaz: https://twitter.com/soonaorlater
Token Day by day: https://www.tokendaily.co
Crypto Springs: http://www.cryptosprings.org
Unchained episode on Ripple: http://unchainedpodcast.co/ripples-xrp-why-its-chances-of-success-are-low-ep58
Singularity episode with Galia Benartzi of Bancor: http://unchainedpodcast.co/singularity-university-global-summit-how-do-we-get-consumer-adoption-ep83
The bug within the Bitcoin software program: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakp3/a-major-bug-in-bitcoin-software-could-have-crashed-the-currency
The Senate hearings on crypto that includes NYU economist Nouriel Roubini and Coin Middle’s Peter Van Valkenburgh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFc0Um6WUU4
Pattern of Roubini’s tweets: https://twitter.com/Nouriel/standing/1050425363413827584
