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37 episodes

Motion: Bitcoin mining is good for the grid (Lee Bratcher vs. Ben Hertz-Shargel)

Guests: Lee Bratcher ( twitter.com/lee_bratcher ) Ben Hertz-Shargel ( twitter.com/benhertzshargel ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09...

75:39May 12, 2022

Motion: We should always reduce MEV on blockchains (Ed Felten vs. Tushar Jain)

Guests: Ed Felten ( twitter.com/edfelten ) Tushar Jain ( twitter.com/TusharJain_ ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today’s motion...

69:38May 6, 2022

Motion: Web3 is worse than Web2 (Liron Shapira vs. Kyle Samani)

Announcement: I have a new show called “Crypto This Week.” It’s a weekly, five-minute news comedy satire focused on the world of crypto. Che...

82:40Dec 24, 2021

Motion: The industry is growing out of the Fat Protocol Thesis (Jeff Dorman vs. Joel Monegro)

Announcement: I have a new show called “Crypto This Week.” It’s a weekly, five-minute news comedy satire focused on the world of crypto. Che...

96:55Dec 10, 2021

Motion: DAOs are better than corporations (Kain Warwick vs. Edmund Schuster)

Announcement: I have a new show called “Crypto This Week.” It’s a weekly, five-minute news comedy satire focused on the world of crypto. Che...

77:04Oct 13, 2021

Motion: Toxic maximalism is great for Bitcoin (Giacomo Zucco vs. Paul Sztorc)

Guests: Giacomo Zucco : twitter.com/giacomozucco Paul Sztorc : twitter.com/truthcoin Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today’s moti...

94:31Aug 12, 2021

Motion: It's a bad idea to make Bitcoin compulsory tender (George Selgin vs. Yves Bennaïm)

Guests: Yves Bennaïm : twitter.com/ZLOK George Selgin : twitter.com/georgeselgin Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today’s motion i...

103:06Aug 6, 2021

Motion: Algo and fractional stablecoins are flawed (Bennett Tomlin vs. Sam Kazemian)

Guests: Bennett Tomlin ( twitter.com/bennetttomlin ) Sam Kazemian ( twitter.com/samkazemian ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Tod...

76:41Jul 27, 2021

Motion: Security is about maximizing the minimum set of colluding miners (Anatoly Yakovenko vs. Dankrad Feist)

Guests: Anatoly Yakovenko ( twitter.com/aeyakovenko ) Dankrad Feist ( twitter.com/dankrad ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today...

86:22Jul 12, 2021

Motion: The US urgently needs to catch up on Central Bank Digital Currency (Robert Hockett vs. Lawrence White)

Guests: Bob Hockett ( twitter.com/rch371 ) Larry White ( twitter.com/lawrencehwhite1 ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today’s mo...

94:43Jun 18, 2021

Motion: Trustless smart contracts for Bitcoin is impossible without forking (Ruben Somsen vs. Muneeb Ali)

Guests: Ruben Somsen ( twitter.com/SomsenRuben ) Muneeb Ali ( twitter.com/muneeb ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today’s motion...

107:12May 28, 2021

Motion: NFTs are dumb (Edmund Schuster vs. Andrew Steinwold, co-host: Maria Shen)

Guests: Edmund Schuster ( twitter.com/edmund_schuster ) Andrew Steinwold ( twitter.com/andrewsteinwold ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gen...

74:38Mar 25, 2021

Motion: Ethereum is too early for institutional money (Lyn Alden vs. Qiao Wang)

Guests: Lyn Alden ( twitter.com/lynaldencontact ) Qiao Wang ( twitter.com/qwqiao ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today’s motion...

65:42Feb 24, 2021

Motion: Diem is a glorified Paypal (David Gerard vs. Bryce Weiner)

Guests: David Gerard ( twitter.com/davidgerard ) Bryce Weiner ( twitter.com/bryceweiner ) Host: Richard Yan ( twitter.com/gentso09 ) Today’s...

57:54Jan 26, 2021

Motion: Tether has always been acting in bad faith (Bennett Tomlin vs. Larry Cermak, co-host: Patrick McKenzie)

Guests: Bennett Tomlin (@bennetttomlin) Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Patrick McKenzie (@patio11, special co-host)...

75:51Jan 13, 2021

Motion: Bitcoin is a scam (Jorge Stolfi vs. Lyn Alden)

Guests: Jorge Stolfi (@jorgestolfi) Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s motion is “Bitcoin is a scam.” At the...

85:57Jan 1, 2021

Motion: Legally speaking, tokens are more like commodities than like securities (Lewis Cohen vs. Gabriel Shapiro)

Guests: Lewis Cohen (@NYcryptolawyer) Gabriel Shapiro (@lex_node) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s motion is “Legally speaking, tokens...

75:00Dec 24, 2020

Motion: Today’s blockchains can’t increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization, II (Evan Shapiro vs. Anatoly Yakovenko)

Guests: Evan Shapiro (@evanashapiro) Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s motion is “Today’s blockchains c...

46:24Dec 24, 2020

Motion: Tether will likely get crushed by authorities in the next two years, thanks to its shady practices and defiance against regulators (CasPiancey vs. Matthew Graham)

Guests: CasPiancey (@caspiancey) Matthew Graham (@mattysino) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s motion is “Tether will likely get crushed...

54:57Dec 3, 2020

Motion: ZK rollup has a better set of security/scalability tradeoff than optimistic rollup (Alex Gluchowski vs. John Adler, co-host: James Prestwich)

Guests: Alex Gluchowski (@gluk64) John Adler (@jadler0) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) James Prestwich (@_prestwich, special co-host) Today’s...

86:30Nov 4, 2020

Motion: Yield Farming is an innovation (Haseeb Qureshi vs. Meltem Demirors, co-host: Tarun Chitra)

Guests: Haseeb Qureshi (@hosseeb) Meltem Demirors (@melt_dem) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra, special co-host) Tod...

58:07Sep 18, 2020

Motion: Blockchain analysis companies are bad for bitcoin (Alex Gladstein vs. Dave Jevans)

Guests: Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) Dave Jevans (@davejevans) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s motion is “Blockchain analysis companies...

74:48Aug 28, 2020

Motion: Today's blockchains can't increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization (Emre Tekişalp vs. Anatoly Yakovenko, cohost: Uri Klarman)

Guests: Emre Tekişalp (@etekis) Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko) Hosts: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Uri Klarman (@uriklarman, special co-host) T...

76:38Aug 10, 2020

Motion: Scalability is impossible without sharding and layer-2 solutions (Georgios Konstantopoulos vs. Anatoly Yakovenko, cohost: Tarun Chitra)

Guests: Georgios Konstantopoulos (@gakonst) Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko) Hosts: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra, spec...

102:57Jul 21, 2020

Motion: Nation-state attack on Bitcoin is an unresolved ticking time-bomb (Mike Kelly vs. Hasu)

Guests: Mike Kelly (@mikekelly85) Hasu (@hasufl) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s motion is “Nation-state attack on the bitcoin network...

91:37Jun 29, 2020

Motion: Corporate bailouts and capital market rescues make sense, II (Jonathan Padilla vs. Nick White)

Guests: Jonathan "JP" Padilla (@JPadillaCA) Nick White (@nickwh8te) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s motion is “I largely approve the U...

74:56Jun 3, 2020

Motion: Corporate bailouts and capital market rescues make sense (Qiao Wang vs. Jimmy Song)

Guests: Qiao Wang (@qwqiao) Jimmy Song (@jimmysong) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) We all know the dominant crypto-native perspective on corp...

106:10May 5, 2020

Motion: Ethereum 1.0 can scale (Uri Klarman vs. Mrinal Manohar)

Guests: Uri Klarman (@uriklarman) Mrinal Manohar (casperlabs.io) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) The guests we have today have close ties to E...

91:40Apr 30, 2020

Discussion: Baseline ("Permission-less Chain" for enterprise) vs. Corda ("Permissioned Chain" for enterprise) (John Wolpert vs. Richard Brown)

Guests: John Wolpert (@jwolpert) Richard Brown (@gendal) Host: Richard Yan (@gentso09) Today’s session is about enterprise blockchain and fe...

62:15Apr 20, 2020

Motion: The future of blockchain will be an oligopoly of public blockchains (Illia Polosukhin vs. Zaki Manian)

Guests: Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) - debating FOR the motion Zaki Manian (@zmanian) - debating AGAINST the motion Host: Richard Yan (...

62:05Apr 15, 2020

Motion: POS will overtake POW (Kevin Sekniqi vs. Tarun Chitra)

Guests: Kevin Sekniqi (@kevinsekniqi) - debating FOR the motion Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra) - debating AGAINST the motion Host: Richard Yan...

101:28Mar 25, 2020

Motion: China Will Lead the World in Blockchain Innovation (Matthew Graham vs. Avichal Garg)

Guests: Matthew Graham (@mattysino) - debating FOR the motion Avichal Garg (@avichal) - debating AGAINST the motion Host: Richard Yan (@gent...

78:15Mar 9, 2020

Motion: Bitcoin Halvening is Priced In (Jason Williams vs. Christian Keroles)

Guests: Jason Williams (@JWilliamsFstmed) - debating FOR the motion Christian Keroles (@ck_SNARKs) - debating AGAINST the motion Host: Richa...

73:21Feb 24, 2020

Motion: DeFi is DeFicient (Udi Wertheimer vs. Haseeb Qureshi)

Guests: Udi Wertheimer (@UdiWertheimer) - debating FOR the motion Haseeb Qureshi (@Hosseeb) - debating AGAINST the motion Host: Richard Yan...

86:36Feb 5, 2020

Motion: Tokenization and Smart Contracts are Useful Ideas (Emin Gün Sirer vs. Edmund Schuster)

Guests: Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) - debating FOR the motion Edmund Schuster (@Edmund_Schuster) - debating AGAINST the motion Host: Richar...

95:18Jan 16, 2020

Motion: Bitcoin will Attain Global Store of Value Status in 2040 (Jimmy Song vs. David Gerard)

Motion: Bitcoin will Attain Global Store of Value Status in 2040. Guests: Jimmy Song (@jimmysong) - debating FOR the motion David Gerard (@d...

80:05Dec 20, 2019

Announcing The Blockchain Debate Podcast

Each episode invites two industry experts to debate a blockchain related motion. The debate winner will be determined based on changes in pr...

2:05Dec 16, 2019