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    The Blockchain Debate Podcast

    Richard Yan

    It seems that the future of blockchain industry can go down very different paths, and each path has its group of hard core believers. They can’t all be right. Perhaps by hearing the experts debate, the rest of us can compare their reasoning and see the future a bit more clearly. Whether you’re a builder or investor, whether you consider yourself blockchain-savvy or blockchain-curious, if you…

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    Episodes HN recommended

    • Motion: Tether has always been acting in bad faith (Bennett Tomlin vs. Larry Cermak, co-host: Patrick McKenzie)

      Jan 13, 2021 • 1 h 16 min

    Recent episodes

    • Motion: Bitcoin mining is good for the grid (Lee Bratcher vs. Ben Hertz-Shargel)

      May 12, 2022 • 1 h 16 min

    • Motion: We should always reduce MEV on blockchains (Ed Felten vs. Tushar Jain)

      May 6, 2022 • 1 h 10 min

    • Motion: Web3 is worse than Web2 (Liron Shapira vs. Kyle Samani)

      Dec 24, 2021 • 1 h 23 min

    • Motion: The industry is growing out of the Fat Protocol Thesis (Jeff Dorman vs. Joel Monegro)

      Dec 10, 2021 • 1 h 37 min

    • Motion: DAOs are better than corporations (Kain Warwick vs. Edmund Schuster)

      Oct 13, 2021 • 1 h 17 min

    • Motion: Toxic maximalism is great for Bitcoin (Giacomo Zucco vs. Paul Sztorc)

      Aug 12, 2021 • 1 h 35 min

    • Motion: It's a bad idea to make Bitcoin compulsory tender (George Selgin vs. Yves Bennaïm)

      Aug 6, 2021 • 1 h 43 min

    • Motion: Algo and fractional stablecoins are flawed (Bennett Tomlin vs. Sam Kazemian)

      Jul 27, 2021 • 1 h 17 min

    • Motion: Security is about maximizing the minimum set of colluding miners (Anatoly Yakovenko vs. Dankrad Feist)

      Jul 12, 2021 • 1 h 26 min

    • Motion: The US urgently needs to catch up on Central Bank Digital Currency (Robert Hockett vs. Lawrence White)

      Jun 18, 2021 • 1 h 35 min

    • Motion: Trustless smart contracts for Bitcoin is impossible without forking (Ruben Somsen vs. Muneeb Ali)

      May 28, 2021 • 1 h 47 min

    • Motion: NFTs are dumb (Edmund Schuster vs. Andrew Steinwold, co-host: Maria Shen)

      Mar 25, 2021 • 1 h 15 min

    • Motion: Ethereum is too early for institutional money (Lyn Alden vs. Qiao Wang)

      Feb 24, 2021 • 1 h 06 min

    • Motion: Diem is a glorified Paypal (David Gerard vs. Bryce Weiner)

      Jan 26, 2021 • 58 min

    • Motion: Bitcoin is a scam (Jorge Stolfi vs. Lyn Alden)

      Jan 1, 2021 • 1 h 26 min

    • Motion: Legally speaking, tokens are more like commodities than like securities (Lewis Cohen vs. Gabriel Shapiro)

      Dec 24, 2020 • 1 h 15 min

    • Motion: Today’s blockchains can’t increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization, II (Evan Shapiro vs. Anatoly Yakovenko)

      Dec 24, 2020 • 46 min

    • Motion: Tether will likely get crushed by authorities in the next two years, thanks to its shady practices and defiance against regulators (CasPiancey vs. Matthew Graham)

      Dec 3, 2020 • 55 min

    • Motion: ZK rollup has a better set of security/scalability tradeoff than optimistic rollup (Alex Gluchowski vs. John Adler, co-host: James Prestwich)

      Nov 4, 2020 • 1 h 27 min

    • Motion: Yield Farming is an innovation (Haseeb Qureshi vs. Meltem Demirors, co-host: Tarun Chitra)

      Sep 18, 2020 • 58 min

    • Motion: Blockchain analysis companies are bad for bitcoin (Alex Gladstein vs. Dave Jevans)

      Aug 28, 2020 • 1 h 15 min

    • Motion: Today's blockchains can't increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization (Emre Tekişalp vs. Anatoly Yakovenko, cohost: Uri Klarman)

      Aug 10, 2020 • 1 h 17 min

    • Motion: Scalability is impossible without sharding and layer-2 solutions (Georgios Konstantopoulos vs. Anatoly Yakovenko, cohost: Tarun Chitra)

      Jul 21, 2020 • 1 h 43 min

    • Motion: Nation-state attack on Bitcoin is an unresolved ticking time-bomb (Mike Kelly vs. Hasu)

      Jun 29, 2020 • 1 h 32 min

    • Motion: Corporate bailouts and capital market rescues make sense, II (Jonathan Padilla vs. Nick White)

      Jun 3, 2020 • 1 h 15 min

    • Motion: Corporate bailouts and capital market rescues make sense (Qiao Wang vs. Jimmy Song)

      May 5, 2020 • 1 h 46 min

    • Motion: Ethereum 1.0 can scale (Uri Klarman vs. Mrinal Manohar)

      Apr 30, 2020 • 1 h 32 min

    • Discussion: Baseline ("Permission-less Chain" for enterprise) vs. Corda ("Permissioned Chain" for enterprise) (John Wolpert vs. Richard Brown)

      Apr 20, 2020 • 1 h 02 min

    • Motion: The future of blockchain will be an oligopoly of public blockchains (Illia Polosukhin vs. Zaki Manian)

      Apr 15, 2020 • 1 h 02 min

    • Motion: POS will overtake POW (Kevin Sekniqi vs. Tarun Chitra)

      Mar 25, 2020 • 1 h 41 min

    What HN said

    • unravellerSep 2021
      The simplicity of Mina offers relative long-term peace of mind and fairly instant direct control if ever needed. Simpler, more likely, more secure.

      My problem with the stubborn way the mina project is presented is that they deflect scrutiny away from the performance stats too much and makes them look suspect. Because to them the low count of full-nodes and slow TPS don't matter, the simplicity of validators/nodes trumps all in their mind and leaves them with no concerns. Their cagey approach just makes it harder to work out anything, which degrades trust.

      As someone who just found out about the project space today via podcast [1] I much prefer their competitor solana's open approach where they are data heavy upfront and even show [2] their concerns of the current number trends. They say the utmost simplicity is a moot point as you have to jump in and trust someone at some arbitrary point, it doesn't matter if trust goes all the way back.

      [1] https://blockdebate.buzzsprout.com/767033/6993889

      [2] https://solanabeach.io/validators

    • dgellowJan 2021
      Blockchain Debate - Motion: Tether has always been acting in bad faith [audio]
    • simonebrunozziJan 2021
      The Blockchain Debate Podcast

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