Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell professor, co-director on the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Good Contracts (IC3) and the founding father of Ava, talks concerning the settlement the SEC reached with the founding father of EtherDelta, and what that would imply for the coders of decentralized techniques. He additionally places this motion within the context of the historical past of peer-to-peer sharing and the way the federal government used to ban encryption. We additionally focus on his fundamental takeaway from DevCon4 final week — trace, maximalism might be not the longer term — and he explains a brand new consensus algorithm known as Avalanche, and the way that differs from earlier methods to realize consensus. Then, he provides us a sneak preview of a brand new coin he’s launching, Ava.
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Episode hyperlinks:
Emin Gun Sirer: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/folks/egs/
IC3: https://www.initc3.org
SEC/EtherDelta settlement press launch: https://www.sec.gov/information/press-release/2018-258
SEC order: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2018/34-84553.pdf
CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz’s speech discussing how they’d prosecute unlawful prediction markets and the way coders could possibly be liable: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/opaquintenz16
Unchained episode discussing whether or not coders could be liable: http://unchainedpodcast.co/reflections-on-the-10-year-anniversary-of-the-bitcoin-white-paper-ep90
DevCon4: https://devcon4.ethereum.org
Avalanche white paper: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUy4jh5mGNZvLkjies1RWM4YuvJh5o2FYopNPVYwrRVGV
Ava: https://m.fb.com/story.php?story_fbid=2629017553989259&id=1801780960046260
