Analysis in Chains - News and Views on Blockchain

It has been a while fellow hashers! With Neal and Nathan both taking care of family life, the end of 2019 rolled by with no new recordings, but that doesn't mean the crypto scene has been quiet!  In this special holiday episode Neal and Nathan get back together to look over the crypto developments in 2019 and speculate on what 2020 will hold.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Today I have a chat with Dennis Lewis, author of the new book Behold the Cryptopreneurs. Dennis cut his teeth in ICO marketing and saw the rise and fall of many crypto projects.  In the past few years we have seen the rise and fall of an ICO bubble and it opens the question of how we as blockchain and crypto entrepreneurs could do better in the future.  What went right, and what went wrong in the last cycle and what should we do differently if we want a healthy blockchain industry going forward? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Trading and speculation are the engine that drives interest in blockchain technology, and the huge swings in value have captured the attention of wall street.  This brave new world of digital asset trading lured Sam Bankman-Fried from his high-powered wall-street job to found two companies, FTX and Alameda Research, which bring a derivatives exchange and quantitative trading to the blockchain world.  Everyone has been on tenterhooks waiting for the influx of institutional money into the blockchain space, and FTX is waiting for them, but Sam notes that there are many hurdles that have to be overcome before the big investors will feel comfortable diving in.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

When Neal and I started this podcast 2 years ago, one of our goals was to discover interesting projects and uses of blockchain that we hadn't considered before. The Internet is core to all of our lives to the point where we take it for granted that it will just work. Blockchain is great for payment systems, trading platforms, supply chain traceability... but can blockchain make the Internet more efficient? In today's episode I interview Dom Povilauskas, the CEO of NOIA. His team has created a more efficient way to route Internet traffic around the world and incentivizes owners of routers to participate in this more efficient system with a decentralized cryptocurrency system.    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Did ever you try To build an AI That would tinker with clouds And make them more spry? Well one person did. And his name is Max Rye And he is the founder Of DeepCloud AI.     We take cloud services for granted in North America and Europe, however in many parts of the world it is difficult to get reliable access to cloud services for your business.  Today I speak with Max Rye, founder and CEO of Deepcloud AI, who are using a blockchain and AI driven framework to incentivize the crowd to provide cloud services in decentralized way that minimizes latency so that companies who don't have easy access to AWS or Google can still have access to reliable cloud services.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Hey everyone! This week I'm going to be speaking at Tech Open Air in Berlin. I was invited because my company, Minespider, is involved with an interesting blockchain use case of tracking responsibly sourced minerals and metals in the supply chain. We're working to eliminate human rights abuses in the products we buy.  One of the things I learned from running Minespider is that much of the reason there are atrocities going into our products in the first place has to do with the way our economy is structured.  It always comes back to the incentives.  Is there a way to change the rules of the economy so that everyone races to become the most responsible company?  Maybe. It sounds like the kind of challenge blockchain is built to tackle, doesn't it?     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Greetings, hashers! Everyone is talking about Libra. Is it a coin for good or for evil? Should we trust Facebook to create a cryptocurrency? Take a listen and I'll give my 2 cents. Plus, the main segment today is an interview with Paul Riegle and Yossi Gilad from Algorand. Generally, primary layer blockchains want to be secure, scalable, and decentralized, but can only choose 2 of those three.  Algorand believes they've come up with a way to get all three. Will this change the crypto scene? Join us to explore!   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

  One of the beautiful aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is the ability to experiment with new economic models without the need for a bloody revolution. We can try a different way of maneuvering wealth, managing incomes, and tweaking how currency is created, destroyed, and how the rules are set, all without a civil war.   Enter Evan Kuo, Founder and CEO of Ampleforth.  After seeking the advice of many career economists, Evan created Ampleforth.  In most token systems, there are a fixed number of tokens and when demand goes up the price goes up.  In Ampleforth, when demand goes up, you get more tokens.  It is a new concept, different than a stable coin, that changes the rules of the currency game.   I took a little more time with this interview, because it is a very different model than we have seen on the show before.  And with new and complex concepts it's worth taking the time to understand. This is the very core of why blockchain will be so disruptive: it's ability to change the rules that govern these money systems so fundamental to our lives.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Bitcoin hits 9000, and it feels like the crypto winter may be giving way to the crypto spring.   And as the crypto winter turns into spring, the show will also change.  Neal will be taking an indefinite hiatus to focus on his family life. Nathan will continue the show, but on a less regular schedule to focus on his company, Minespider.     With these changes, Neal and Nathan take time and reflect on key moments and highlights of the show over the past 2 years.  Thanks for joining us on our crypto journey. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Everyone is excited!  Crypto is on the up.  What's going on?     Today Neal and Nathan have a chat about the factors that have led to this parabolic time of joy in the crypto price and look at wallet options if you want to dare to believe again.   Then Nathan dives in to a talk with our good friend and CEO of Demand.Film, David Doepel.  Demand.Film is the AirBnB of movie theaters who has a blockchain-based loyalty program called ScreenCreds. We spoke about the recent change in Australian regulations allowing companies to do crowdsourced equity funding, what that means for blockchain companies, and what their experience has been so far. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin Editing team: Aiden and Jason Lavallee

It's been a while since we've spoken with a decentralized, utility-token-driven project on the show, but with the recent crypto spike, now is the time to start looking at exciting new projects!   Jag Singh is the cofounder of Vid.Camera, a blockchain powered system looking to compete with YouTube with an open source algorithm and decentralized revenue sharing. We got to go in-depth into the platform and some of the considerations they had with their incentive models, their front-end app design, and what people really are looking for in a video sharing system. Ambitious startups have had the social media giants in their sights for years, hoping to disrupt them, but none have been successful before now.  Will adding blockchain change the story?  Will the users care enough about self-sovereign data to make the leap to Vid?       --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin Editing team: Aiden and Jason Lavallee

Utility tokens.  They were all the rage in 2017 and even 2018. Not only because people could raise millions of dollars with them really quickly, but also because they enabled blockchain protocols to work.   But utility tokens were designed to be speculated on, and the more the price rises, the less people want to use them in a blockchain system. Instead they'll hold on to them as an investment.  We need tokens to make decentralized systems work.  Is there a way to solve this problem?  And how can this inform how we design our blockchain systems going forward?   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** This episode features some questions asked by members on our Telegram group.  You should join us! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

It's known as the Oracle Problem.  Transactions on a blockchain are secure and trustless, but when we create smart contracts that use data that comes from sources not on the blockchain, how can we trust it is accurate?  We need external data for some of the most interesting applications of smart contracts, like decentralized insurance, rely on external data to work. Today I speak with Martin Mikeln, cofounder of Verity.Network. Their approach is to use a crowdsourced data collection model to incentivize large groups of people to enter data in a decentralized manner, eliminating the need for a trusted oracle. From face recognition to insurance, to sports betting, Verity hopes to bring trusted data to smart contracts without trusted parties.    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin Editing team: Aiden and Jason Lavallee    

Hello lovely listeners, today we talk with Nick White, cofounder of Harmony, a base-layer protocol that is trying to solve some of the scaling problems that come with the blockchain space. Scaling is a huge challenge in the blockchain space: how can we go from 7 transactions per second to the thousands needed to replace traditional payment networks, while maintaining the decentralized ideals of the blockchain community?  And even if we get there, does this leave the blockchain vulnerable to off-chain politics? What is the best way forward? And of course, on that very topic, we had in the news this week Binance choosing to delist Bitcoin SV, the project headed by Australian self-proclaimed "Satoshi Nakamoto" Craig Wright. This looks like very bad news for the project and holders of the coin, but it also raises questions as to how centralized the power in blockchain really is, and who holds this power. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin Editing team: Aiden and Jason Lavallee

Spring is here and there is a crypto rally around us! Crypto prices rallied last week giving everyone in the cryptoverse a bit of relief, and in the midst of that we had the opportunity to speak to Charles Hoskinson, cofounder of Ethereum, and Cofounder and CEO of IOHK, which runs Ethereum Classic and Cardano. Charles and his organizations are driven by science and it was a special treat to step away from the excitement of rising bitcoin prices and to see the world through his eyes.  Thank you Charles for coming on the show!   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin Editing team: Aiden and Jason Lavallee

The long crypto winter has focused the blockchain world on enterprise projects with customers and solid business models, but we should not forget the importance of Layer One protocols! Behind the hype of STOs, finance platforms, and supply chain solutions lies the world of consensus mechanisms, sharding, proof of stake, and throughput.  And in the middle of this is Elrond.   Today we speak with Beniamin Mincu, cofounder and CEO of Elrond, who are combining some of the latest research to make a faster, more secure layer one blockchain.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin Editing team: Aiden and Jason Lavallee

A week after the big exchange scandal and crypto seems largely unaffected, so Neal and Nathan discuss the future of Proof of Stake systems and whether staking will be the newest investment tool for large institutional investors.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

Last week Positiveblockchain.io held a meetup in Berlin discussing the role of blockchain in digital ID and how it could make a positive social impact. Analysis in Chains was there to record it, so you didn't have to miss the discussion! On the panel were: Kai Wagner- JolocomRicky Thiermann- SpherityAleksander Kampa - SikobaBalazs Nemethi- Taqanu and it was moderated by Carolina Soto- Innogy Innovation Hub   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin Editing team: Aiden and Jason Lavallee

Bitcoin trading volumes are strong but the value, not so much.  Could it be that exchanges are inflating their volumes to look more impressive to the average trader? Is it just the small exchanges or are the big ones caught up as well?  And what does this mean for you, the average crypto trader?   Also did you see Nathan was interviewed by Forbes this week about his company Minespider? Check it out!   https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaxjacobsen/2019/03/22/can-blockchain-apps-ensure-a-responsible-mineral-supply-chain/#673159165834 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin

We've all been there. We go to a website, go to log in, and have to prove we aren't a robot.  Each time we fill out a Captcha we are doing work to provide data that feeds machine learning algorithms run by big companies, and we're doing it for free!   Machine Learning is very data hungry, and it's hungry for data from humans. So why can't the humans who provide this data be paid, and the middleman removed?  That's the story of Human Protocol.  Today we talk to Eli Khedouri, the founder about the needs of this industry and how their first product, hCaptcha, aims to feed our future robot overlords, but allow the individuals who contribute to be compensated for their loyal service.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Join us on Telegram! https://t.me/AnalysisinChains *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free to reach out to us at info@analysisinchains.com or on Twitter through @NealKierans and @NWilliamsMBA Intro reel and music by Sebastian Rodriguez from NTRPY, http://www.ntrpy.berlin