This week I chatted to Dan Larimer, the CTO of Block.one. We start off by taking a deep dive into EOS, and end up in a philosophical discussion about democracy in general. We cover: - BitShares as an early DeFi project - The Hive Fork this year - Steem and what’s been learnt from these previous iterations - Google Cloud becoming a block producer for the EOS network - the early constitution that was scrapped - Voice platform - Differences between EOS and Ethereum - Rothbard’s title transfer theory of contract - Censorship culture - The philosophy of secession Paul Puey, the CEO of Edge Wallet, and I did a deep dive into EOS on our Coinwatch show this week, so if you’d like to hear Paul’s perspective of the coin and whether or not Paul would be interested in investing $100 in it, that episode is released on Thursday and will be available on my channel. If you’d like to send me any questions for guests or send a message of support for the show, I have a cointr.ee page and you can add a note to my wall https://cointr.ee/naomibrockwell I also have a free weekly newsletter called cryptobeat, crypto news in 5 minutes or less, directly to your inbox. You can sign up at https://naomibrockwell.com/cryptobeat If you'd like to become a member of NBTV visit https://NaomiBrockwell.com/memberships

This episode is a deep dive into Curve finance with founder Michael Egorov. Curve is the 2nd largest decentralized exchange on Ethereum, and focuses on trading between stablecoins or other similarly priced assets, for more efficiency. Users can use the platform to swap between Dai and USDT, 2 coins pegged to the US dollar. Or WBTC, RenBTC, sBTC, 3 coins pegged to the price of bitcoin. On Curve people can also provide liquidity to the curve pools and earn fees. Curve also interoperates with the larger DeFi Space. Such interoperable platforms are often analogized to Lego bricks: you can put different DeFi projects together in interesting ways to create new results, or maximize yield. Michael and I talk about how the money lego “Curve” interoperates with countless other projects, like supplying tokens to Compound or yEarn.Finance to generate more income for liquidity providers. We explain these relationships, talk about the CRV governance token, and also discuss the controversy behind the CRV launch when an anonymous person front ran the curve team and deployed the contract early. We discuss the difference between Curve and platforms like Balancer and Uniswap, how risk is managed on the backend, and added incentives for different actions on the Curve platform. We also talk about why some people think Curve is better suited to more sophisticated users. If you would like access to EVERY NBTV-member exclusive, visit naomibrockwell.com/memberships If you would like to send me a message and support my channel, visit https://cointr.ee/naomibrockwell Sign up for the free cryptobeat newsletter here: https://Naomibrockwell.com/cryptobeat