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...
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The Blockchain Debate Podcast
It seems that the future of blockchain industry can go down very different paths, and each path has its group of hard core believers. They can’t all be right. Perhaps by hearing the experts...
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Listen to The Blockchain Debate Podcast, a Technology podcast by Richard Yan. Stream 37 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...