Keep it Simple, Stay Focused and Battle Test with Brian Crain
Description
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Brian from Chorus One
Brian is an entrepreneur and blockchain researcher focused on scalable decentralized applications and cross-chain connectivity. He advocates for privacy and envisions a future where AI and blockchain empower individuals to control their assets and lives.
Chorus One has been pioneering Proof-of-Stake technology since 2018, advancing a $300 billion economy by building and operating core infrastructure to replace inefficient legacy systems with an open, permissionless financial system.
We spoke to Brian about Chorus One and:
- The battle test
- Scalable decentralized application
- Connecting across the chains
- Question around privacy
- Surveillance increased
- Risk for investors, there's risk for developers
- If you engage in a private sector and protocols, assume guilt
- Preserving of privacy
- Decline of large nation states
- AI
- People having more control assets, lives, and decision making
- Keep it simple
- Stay focused
Timestamps
00:00 – 02:53 : Intro
02:53 -- 06:20 : Thoughts on how things have changed.
06:20 -- 09:10 : Interoperability
09:10 -- 24:04 : Safety vs Privacy
24:04 -- 32:42 : Validator journey over the past
32:42 -- 35:50 : Saying no to networks
35:50 -- 39:30 : The vision
39:30 -- 47:18 : Bare metal?
47:18 -- 51:27 : Ledger support
51:27 -- 56:05 : One thing to do and one thing not to do.
56:05 – 01:01:04 : The Blitz
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Special Guest: Brian Fabian Crain.
Links:
- Amazon
- AWS
- Axelar
- Binance
- Bitcoin Wallet Founders Held Under Laundering Charges
- Buddhism
- Cosmos
- Ethereum
- Google Cloud
- HSM UBHSM
- IBC
- Mingyur Rinpoche
- Past Chorus One episode
- Radical Honesty
- Obsidian
- Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested
- Solana
- Steve Jobs
- Stride
- Tornado Cash
- Tornado Cash Founders Charged with Money Laundering
- Wormhole