We’re on the cusp of a new internet revolution. There's a race to provide super fast satellite internet to every inch of the world, and SpaceX's Starlink is in the lead.
My Starlink Satellite Dish just arrived!! The results of my speed test comparing Starlink to my old internet connection were... surprising.
I show you the setup, compare costs, and talk about why low-earth-orbit satellite internet is important!
"I can't pay my bills with crypto or do my grocery shopping using crypto."
Actually, you can.
Joël Valenzuela closed his bank account in 2016 and has been living off only crypto ever since. He shares all his tips so that others can take the plunge and try the #fiatfreechallenge too.
This is the full 1-hour interview with Joël exlusively for NBTV members and LBRY subscribers!
Highlights video from the interview and tutorials coming soon!
In this week's members-exclusive video, I chatted to Dan Notestein, a lead dev for Hive.
Dan goes all the way back to Bitshares days with Dan Larimer – Notestein was employee number 2 in the early days of Delegated Proof of Stake with BitShares, it was just Dan Larimer and Dan Notestein in the beginning.
He also helped bring together the team that launched Hive.
In this interview we dive into the history of Steem, the original chain that Hive forked from. We go into the Steemit inc ninja-mined stake right at the beginning that slowly broke the trust of a lot of the steem community.We talk about the controversy that surrounded the formation of Hive, and the battle with Justin Sun over the top witness spots. And we go into how the Hive tech works – how the distribution of funds to content creators works, the difference between the hive coin, hive power and hive dollar, Hive’s graphene-based blockchain framework and how it differs from other frameworks, and the dApps based on the blockchain.
Dan Notestein is a super interesting guy and was happy to share stories of one of the year’s most contentious forks from his perspective of being right in the middle. I was grateful for unique insight and I learnt a lot about the untold history of Hive.
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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.
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"I can't pay my bills with crypto or do my grocery shopping using crypto."
Actually, you can.
Joël Valenzuela closed his bank account in 2016 and has been living off only crypto ever since. He shares all his tips so that others can take the plunge and try the #fiatfreechallenge too.
This is the full 1-hour interview with Joël exclusively for NBTV members and LBRY subscribers!
Highlights video from the interview and tutorials coming soon!
Follow Joël for more tips for living on crypto: lbry://@DigitalCashNetwork#c
This week I chatted to Darren Tapp, assistant research professor at Arizona State University Blockchain Research Lab
In this interview we take a deep dive into different funding models for cryptocurrencies, looking in particular at a new memberless VC fund in the Dash ecosystem, which pays the Dash treasury dividends from profitable companies they’ve invested in.
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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.
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FIO: A potential solution for payment addresses.
This week I chatted to Luke Stokes, the Managing Director for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability, or FIO.
In this interview we take a deep dive into the FIO protocol, which launched its mainnet chain on March 26, 2020. We talk about the tech, what interwallet operability means, how to map all your crypto addresses to a FIO name, and how it makes crypto invoices super simple.
To claim a free FIO address visit: dl.edge.app/nbtv
(limited supply!)
Paul Puey, the CEO of edgewallet, and I did a deep dive into FIO on our coinwatch show, so if you’d like to hear Paul’s perspective of the coin and whether or not he’d be interested in investing $100 in it, visit: youtu.be/hsRkcQxcArg
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This week on the show I chatted to Arthur Breitman, cofounder of Tezos.
Tezos has been in the news recently because the class action lawsuit the foundation has been fighting for the last 3 years just came to a close. In 2017 the suit was brought by people who claimed Tezos was an unregistered security, and that this entitled them to money. The biggest winners from the lawsuit were the lawyers who walked away with 1/3 of the $25million settlement. My personal opinion of those who brought the suit aside, they would have actually been better off just holding onto their Tezos, which saw a huge rise over the last year.
Arthur and I didn’t actually cover the lawsuit in this conversation, but I have done interviews with him in the past about this and I’ll link them in the description.
In this interview, we take a deep dive into the tech of Tezos:
What Tezos can offer the world of DeFi, now that gas prices of Ethereum are so high
Why sharding might not be the answer
Misconceptions around supply caps
The debate around scaling on chain – and the Ethereum community’s view that this is plutocracy
How the self-governance on Tezos works, why you don’t want to have to depend on a hard fork, and some early proposals that were implemented
How staking, “baking”, works
Why Tezos is not delegated proof of stake like many claim, but actually something called liquid democracy -- what this means and why it’s different from DpoS that blockchains like EOS use.
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Synthetix allows the creation of real world assets, like crypto, gold, stocks, and shares to be bought and traded using crypto. You can get exposure to the price movements of these things without holding the actual asset.
This week on the show, Paul Puey (Edge CEO) and I discussed Synthetix (video here: https://youtu.be/0zdKTcilAr0) and in preparation I chatted to Synthetix CTO Justin J Moses. He answers all my questions and explains how Synthetix works!
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