When Is a Token Decentralized Enough to Not Be a Security? - Ep.056
The newly formed Blockchain Association recently released a post outlining what it calls the Hinman Token Standard based on a speech given last summer by Bill Hinman, director of the SEC’s Division of...
18 Jan 201924min
The Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: How It Happened and Why the Price Didn't Crash - Ep.055
Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, discusses this week's 51% attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain. He describes how the attacker was able to gain control of more than 51% of the network, why i...
11 Jan 201926min
Arjun Balaji on the Ways Bitcoin Will Improve in 2019 - Ep.054
On the 10th birthday of the Bitcoin network, Arjun Balaji, founder and managing partner at Shomei Capital, explains why doesn't worry too much about potential bugs in the code such as there was last f...
4 Jan 201927min
How PowerLedger Aims to Boost Renewable Energy - Ep.053
Jemma Green, cofounder and chairman of PowerLedger, describes how the company, which won the 2018 Extreme Tech Challenge, spearheaded by Sir Richard Branson and CES, is using tokens to solve various e...
28 Des 201825min
Bloomberg's Matt Leising on Why It Appears Tether Has Sufficient Dollar Reserves - Ep.052
Bloomberg reporter Matt Leising, who obtained bank statements from Tether's bank, Noble Bank in Puerto Rico, found that for those months, the number of dollars in the bank matched the amount of Tether...
21 Des 201831min
Consensus: Invest 2018: Financial Products in 2019 and Beyond - Ep.051
This special episode is a recording of the closing fireside chat I had at Consensus: Invest, titled “Financial Products: 2019 and Beyond,” with Jan Van Eck, president and CEO of the Van Eck Securitie...
19 Des 201821min
Why ConsenSys Is 'Shifting From Experimentation to Excellence' - Ep.050
ConsenSys's Andrew Keys talks about the company's recent pivot, called "ConsenSys 2.0," toward greater efficiency, accountability and focus on revenue, why it laid off about 150 people, and what areas...
14 Des 201822min
How ConsenSys Got So Big But Accomplished So Little - Ep.049
Despite having Joe Lubin's billions at its back, and despite having 1,200 employees to build apparently anything they wanted in the Ethereum ecosystem, ConsenSys has accomplished very little and has l...
7 Des 201824min
