Blockchain Curated - Learn Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency From Investors + Experts
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Blockchain Curated is making the best content in the blockchain and bitcoin industry more accessible to the world. We spend a significant amount of time sourcing the top 1% of articles to convert into weekly podcasts in partnership with authors. These podcasts will **always be free** to our listeners. We feature articles that are written by industry veterans and leaders that are commonly cited, and make cryptocurrency easier to understand. Blockchain and cryptocurrency concepts have a notoriously high learning curve, which is why **we rigorously curate only the best articles**. The articles we curate are converted into audio and read aloud by a real human being, not a mechanical-sounding text-to-speech robot. Our articles have featured founders, advisors, and contributors to organizations including Coinbase, Ethereum, Polychain Capital, Digital Currency Group and more.
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United States
Description:
Blockchain Curated is making the best content in the blockchain and bitcoin industry more accessible to the world. We spend a significant amount of time sourcing the top 1% of articles to convert into weekly podcasts in partnership with authors. These podcasts will **always be free** to our listeners. We feature articles that are written by industry veterans and leaders that are commonly cited, and make cryptocurrency easier to understand. Blockchain and cryptocurrency concepts have a notoriously high learning curve, which is why **we rigorously curate only the best articles**. The articles we curate are converted into audio and read aloud by a real human being, not a mechanical-sounding text-to-speech robot. Our articles have featured founders, advisors, and contributors to organizations including Coinbase, Ethereum, Polychain Capital, Digital Currency Group and more.
Twitter:
@BlockchainCur8d
Language:
English
Episodes
Fat Protocols
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Joel Monegro** , you’ll learn: * How economic value for decentralized blockchain-based networks tends to be distributed to protocols rather than applications * Why shared data, such as user data, in decentralized systems, leads to value creation at the protocol level * Why crypto tokens are an essential incentives layer in blockchain networks * How tokens lead to a feedback loop incentivizing investment, development, entrepreneurship, and healthy speculation
Why Decentralized Exchange Protocols Matter
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Fred Ehrsam** , Co-Founder of Coinbase, you’ll learn: * What a decentralized exchange (DEX) is, how they work, what types of applications can be built on top of decentralized exchanges, and how they compare to a centralized exchange * The benefits that decentralized exchanges can uniquely offer that centralized exchanges cannot, as well as some of the current drawbacks of decentralized exchanges * Why there is a need for the decentralized exchange for tokens * The...
Thoughts On Tokens
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring 21 Co-Founder and a16z Partner **Balaji Srinivasan** , you’ll learn: * The basics of what a digital token is, how various tokens differ from each other, and why tokens have surged in interest lately * Why tokens have only recently become possible due to years of digital currency infrastructure * What exactly you receive or hold rights to when you purchase a digital token * Why tokens are such a compelling alternative to traditional financing * How token models...
Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Fred Ehrsam** , Co-Founder of Coinbase, you’ll learn: * How Ethereum is pouring rocket fuel on digital currency app development * Why no killer apps have emerged for Bitcoin beyond potentially being a store of value * Why Ethereum, with its easy to use programming language, is leading the rise of more diversified decentralized applications * Why some of the fundamental beliefs of the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities lead to different priorities and development...
The Fifth Protocol
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring AngelList and CoinList Co-Founder **Naval Ravikant** , you’ll learn: * Why machines could be a major catalyst for Bitcoin protocol adoption * Why it has taken so long to create the internet’s first protocol for exchanging value, and why it’s here to stay * Why Bitcoin has an advantage as an exchange of value protocol versus incumbents * Why dozens of app coins could proliferate on networks that must allocate resources (storage, cache, and more) * What some of the...
Crypto Tokens – A Breakthrough In Open Network Design
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring Andressen Horowitz General Partner **Chris Dixon** , you’ll learn: * How crypto tokens can aid in reversing the trend of internet centralization * Why tokens benefit their users, developers, investors, and entire open source initiatives * Why centralized networks won out versus open networks in Web 2.0, and why crypto tokens may shift the tide back to open networks in the future * How Ethereum is pouring gasoline on this fire with the ERC20 token, inspiring a new...
Cryptocurrency’s Netscape Moment
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Elad Gil** , you’ll learn: * Why now is the starting gun for broad investment in cryptocurrencies including hedge funds, venture funds, and average consumers * How the current 2017 run-up in cryptocurrency prices and interest feels similar to the bubble in 2013, but how this time it’s different * Why the “store of value” use case of Bitcoin is becoming real * How the proliferation of blockchain-based technologies such as Ethereum, Monero and Zcash are driving...
A Beginners Guide to Ethereum
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring early Coinbase employee **Linda Xie** , you’ll learn: * What Ethereum is, and how it compares to Bitcoin * What a ‘smart contract’ is, and why programmable digital money matters * Some of the most interesting use cases of Ethereum including identity, scarce resource markets, next-generation social media, and more * How fundraising using Ethereum ERC-20 tokens is providing fuel for talented engineers to create blockchain-based projects Linda Xie is a Founder at...
A beginner's guide to Bitcoin Cash
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring Scalar Capital Co-Founder and Managing Partner **Linda Xie** , you’ll learn: * The basics of Bitcoin Cash is, and how it compares to Bitcoin * How and why Bitcoin Cash was created * The differences between the scaling approaches of Bitcoin Cash (on chain) and Bitcoin (off chain) * How forks like Bitcoin Cash allow cryptocurrencies to experiment when groups of people cannot reach consensus on contentious decisions
Traditional Asset Tokenization - What happens when the multi-trillion $ asset markets meet cryptocurrency?
7/3/2021
* In this episode featuring **Stephen McKeon** , you’ll learn: * Why in the coming years, assets will become increasing tokenized via blockchain protocols such as Ethereum * How the tokenization of traditional assets such as fine art or commercial buildings will unlock massively valuable new markets for trading * How the concept of asset ownership may evolve in ways not yet imaginable * How asset tokenization is already changing industries like venture capital by offering LPs greater...
Atomic Swaps
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring Bitcoin developer **Jimmy Song** , you’ll learn: * What an atomic swap is, how it affects the future of Bitcoin, and why it is useful * How an atomic swap works, with a real-world example * Why trusted third parties are security holes, and how atomic swaps remove the need for them * Pros and cons of on-chain atomic swaps compared to off-chain swaps such as the Lightning Network * What some of the cryptocurrencies that support atomic swaps are, including Decred (DCR)...
Explain Bitcoin Like I'm 5
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Nik Custodio** , you'll learn: * How Bitcoin works at a fundamental level, ideal for beginners to cryptocurrency * Examples of previous ways of exchanging value before Bitcoin was invented, and the disadvantages of them compared to Bitcoin * Why it was difficult to exchange digital scarcity prior to the invention of Bitcoin * How Bitcoin enables trustless exchange
How Crypto Investment Fund Manager Nick Tomaino Evaluates Tokens
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Crypto Venture Fund Co-Founder Nick Tomaino**, you’ll learn how his $26M fund, 1Confirmation, decides how to deploy their capital into blockchain investments.
Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Albert Wenger **of Union Square Ventures, you’ll learn: * How Bitcoin and other decentralized blockchains will drive the decentralization of the internet * How blockchain protocols provide incentives for the creation and governance of technologies that were previously largely unmonetized public resources * Examples of how companies such as Sia and Filecoin are using blockchains to fund their development and capitalize on the potential success of their technology
The Economics of Blockchain Protocols
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Primoz Kordez** , you’ll learn: * What determines the value of a cryptocurrency * The differences between the two main types of cryptocurrencies we’ve seen in the past two years: cryptocurrencies that can be divided into currencies with the function of means of payment or store of value, and currencies with utility value * How blockchain protocols will give rise to decentralized systems in which individuals co-create the value of the networks * The importance of...
How To Think About Investing In Cryptocurrency: What needs to exist
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring cryptocurrency fund manager **Ari Paul** , you’ll learn: * What investable protocols and services the world needs that are best-suited for blockchain * Why cryptocurrency is not necessarily a winner take all market * Why communities are critical to the long-term success of a cryptocurrency * How shared beliefs of crypto token communities influence development roadmaps and governance, as illustrated by Bitcoin and Ethereum * Why Bitcoin is a serious contender for the...
Cryptoeconomics 101
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring cryptocurrency venture fund founder **Nick Tomaino** , you will learn: * What ‘cryptoeconomics’ is, and why it matters to the ecosystem * The history of decentralized systems including Kazaa and Bittorrent, and why the lack of cryptoeconomic systems stifled them from thriving * How Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum protocol, is pushing the bounds of cryptoeconomics * How crypto monetary policy influences the trajectory decentralized networks
A Beginner’s Guide to Tezos
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring early Coinbase employee **Linda Xie** , you’ll learn: * What the Tezos protocol is, who the founders are, and how it compares to Ethereum * How the Tezos approach to upgrading functionality compares to blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum * How developers in the Tezos ecosystem are compensated for their code * The differences and advantages between PoW (Proof of Work) and PoS (Proof of Stake) * How Tezos’ formal verification feature — allowing developers to...
Losing Alpha: Why Most New Crypto Funds Are a Sh*t Deal
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring **Ryan Selkis** , you will learn: * Why starting a crypto hedge fund seem like such an attractive pitch including the potential for outsized returns, a steep learning curve, and lack of yield on more traditional investment categories * Why simply outperforming a Bitcoin and Ethereum portfolio over the next 10 years will require ballsy assumptions * Why some tokens could require billions of dollars in capital inflows over the coming years simply to maintain their...
Stock Options vs Protocol Tokens
7/3/2021
In this episode featuring entrepreneur and designer **Richard Burton** , you’ll learn: * The basics of stock option equity packages commonly used as financial incentives for startup employees * Why stock options can be “golden handcuffs” for employees * How misunderstanding small details of your stock option incentive package can cost you millions * Why ‘protocol equity’ potentially offers a better compensation outcome for talent * How protocol equity shines in areas where stock option...