True adoption for cryptocurrency and blockchain is still pretty far away. Bitcoin as legal tender is a step in the right direction but the real adoption will take place when this ecosystem gets less confusing, and more importantly — less fragmented. The state of crypto in 2024 is that there are thousands of chains, with specific applications […]
I’ve been in the cryptocurrency space since early 2017 — but I’ve always had an interest in technology and finance so it was an incredible discovery for me when I first stumbled on this space. I’ve seen the world become increasingly more monopolised with a handful of organisations controlling most of the media, computing, and electronics, while […]
I recently had a fascinating conversation with Christoph Jentzsch, a former core developer of Ethereum and author of The DAO. Christoph was there during the launch of Ethereum and the rise and fall of The DAO and it was amazing to hear him talk about it. I also learned a lot about the Ethereum lore […]
Blockchain interconnectivity is going to be a big focus in the years to come, well beyond just EVM-compatibility. I recently had a fascinating discussion on this topic with Interchain Foundations’ Managing Director Maria Gomez and Product Lead for Inter-Blockchain connectivity protocol Susannah Evans. The Interchain Foundation have been instrumental in the building and development of […]
I recently had a great conversation with Michael Sanders, one of the Co-founders at Horizon. He and his team have built an incredible platform that allows game developers to easily access and use blockchain data in game development. This is the kind of tool that’s going to power the next paradigm shift in modern gaming. […]
In this week’s episode of Proof of Talk: The Cryptocurrency Podcast, I’m joined by PaintSwap DAO core member Chronic. We had a great conversation about the Fantom blockchain, the DAO itself, as well as the fully on-chain MMORPG game built by the DAO – Estfor Kingdom. Here are some of the highlights we covered on […]
This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Stephen, the creator of Looppress, an open-source WordPress plugin for Token Gating. We had a great conversation on my podcast Proof Of Talk, on the features of Looppress, and why Loopring is likely to become the main L3 for Ethereum. Here are some of the […]
Remember how cryptocurrency was built for cheap, fast international peer-to-peer transfers? Being able to transfer cryptocurrency across long distances quickly and cheaply is a significant use case for cryptocurrency in general, and there are projects such as Ripple, Stellar, Litecoin, Algo, Nano and many others that were built for this exact use case. An international […]
I recently had a discussion with Mitchell from Stead on my Cryptocurrency Podcast about seasteading, floating infrastructures and how their new decentralized lending platform fits into this paradigm. It was a fascinating conversation and I learned a lot about seasteading. Seasteading is a concept that involves building permanent human habitation in international waters. The idea […]
The same organisation that was responsible for shutting down the biggest dark web drug marketplace, Silkroad, fell victim to one of the oldest tricks in the books — a phishing attack, resulting in the DEA sending $55,000 to a scammer’s address. The way this scam was set up an executed is quite fascinating and just goes to […]
