How long does delusion traditionally outlast sanity? - Aaron Lowry
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Episode description
Aaron Lowry (https://twitter.com/Aaron_Lowry)
- Why are you interested in Cardano?
- Why didn’t you switch to ETH and stay with Classic?
- What are the main challenges to build decentralized systems?
- With functional governance?
- How does verifiability contribute to more challenging programming issues?
- What was the Ethereum schism between classic and ETH?
- With the unilateral move to create a new ETH chain we see the first centralization
- Cardano is centralized in explicit ways through the initial token sale, the corporate structure, and the nodes
- It starts out centralized but they have a roadmap to get to centralization
- What are the differences between a proof of work Bitcoin and a proof of stake system? What does a smart contract system need that bitcoin doesn’t?
- What happened when ETH moved to proof of stake?
- Why is energy so fundamental to utility?
- What is the market cap of Cardano?
- What are the compromises of ETH?
- What is slashing?
- How fast is Cardano?
- What are stake pools?
- What is trust minimization? Why is it so integral to a blockchain?
- Does Cardano validate things locally?
- Will AI make it easier to host hardware servers?
- What limits peer-to-peer networks?
- The market seems to always go towards convenience, which compromises so many things. What are those compromises?
- Can you argue with physics?
- How long does delusion traditionally outlast sanity?
- How do you build something that lasts when structurally the incentive is to build something that doesn’t?
- What is the difference between accountability and scapegoating?
- How can you reality-check with others while there are contradictions embedded within communication?