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    The Blockchain Debate Podcast

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    May 12, 2022 • 1 h 16 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    May 6, 2022 • 1 h 10 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Dec 24, 2021 • 1 h 23 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Dec 10, 2021 • 1 h 37 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Oct 13, 2021 • 1 h 17 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Aug 12, 2021 • 1 h 35 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Aug 6, 2021 • 1 h 43 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jul 27, 2021 • 1 h 17 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    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)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jun 18, 2021 • 1 h 35 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    May 28, 2021 • 1 h 47 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Mar 25, 2021 • 1 h 15 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Feb 24, 2021 • 1 h 06 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jan 26, 2021 • 58 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jan 13, 2021 • 1 h 16 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jan 1, 2021 • 1 h 26 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    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)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    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)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    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)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Nov 4, 2020 • 1 h 27 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Sep 18, 2020 • 58 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    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)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    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)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jul 21, 2020 • 1 h 43 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jun 29, 2020 • 1 h 32 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jun 3, 2020 • 1 h 15 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    May 5, 2020 • 1 h 46 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    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)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Apr 20, 2020 • 1 h 02 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Apr 15, 2020 • 1 h 02 min

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

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Mar 25, 2020 • 1 h 41 min

    Motion: China Will Lead the World in Blockchain Innovation (Matthew Graham vs. Avichal Garg)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Mar 9, 2020 • 1 h 18 min

    Motion: Bitcoin Halvening is Priced In (Jason Williams vs. Christian Keroles)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Feb 24, 2020 • 1 h 13 min

    Motion: DeFi is DeFicient (Udi Wertheimer vs. Haseeb Qureshi)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Feb 5, 2020 • 1 h 27 min

    Motion: Tokenization and Smart Contracts are Useful Ideas (Emin Gün Sirer vs. Edmund Schuster)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Jan 16, 2020 • 1 h 35 min

    Motion: Bitcoin will Attain Global Store of Value Status in 2040 (Jimmy Song vs. David Gerard)

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Dec 20, 2019 • 1 h 20 min

    Announcing The Blockchain Debate Podcast

    The Blockchain Debate Podcast
    Dec 16, 2019 • 2 min