Today on the podcast, the Whiteblock Team joins host Tom Shaughnessy of 51percent to discuss their widely circulated technical research report titled; "EOS: An Architectural, Performance, and Economic Analysis Paper". Tom is joined by Zak Cole the CTO of Whiteblock, Nate Blakely a systems developer at Whiteblock and Daniel Choi a blockchain developer at Whiteblock. Why the actual throughput or tx/s of EOS falls short of what is marketed or promised. EOS can only handle a few dozen tx/s not 5,000...
Nov 27, 2018•1 hr 5 min
On this episode host Tom Shaughnessy is joined by Scott Andersen, a principal at Finlawyer.com and a former prosecutor at FINRA. In this episode the two discuss everything legal ranging from ICOs to the future of the space The legality of ICOs Etherdetla, Paragon and Airfox enforcement actions The legality of security tokens and exchanges Will all ICOs have to return investor money How the SEC is positioning in the space The BAKKT Delay ETF timing and impact Much, much more. ----more---- 51perce...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Eric Olszewskii and Jose Macedo join host Tom Shaughnessy to discuss Ethereum’s fat protocol thesis following Jose’s post on the topic. We also go into depth on everything Ethereum with Serenity, scalability, store of values, future use cases and why ETH prices haven’t yet bottomed. Our conversation also dives into Ethereum's competition, ranging from Bitcoin, NEO, EOS, Litecoin and Tezos. ----more---- 51percent's Reports on Tezos and MakerDAO Follow Tom on Twitter @Shaughnessy119 Follow Eric on...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 24 min
John Quinn, the Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at StorJ joins host Tom Shaughnessy to discuss the decentralized storage provider. ----more---- Decentralized (StorJ, Sia, Filecoin, Maidsafe) vs Centralized storage providers (AWS, Azure) How StorJ is more focused on competing with centralized cloud providers over its decentralized peers. What's new in the comprehensive StorJ Version 3.0 White Paper (90+ pages). How the StorJ platform works, metrics so far (100 petabytes stored globally). Sto...
Nov 12, 2018•58 min
Following Alexander's post comparing the differences between Ethereum's Serenity with Near Protocol, we decided to dive into the platform with the founders (Alexander Skidanov and Illia Polosukhin). The Near Protocol is a new project, and one of our goals is to find these projects first and educate our listeners on them. We discuss Ethereum’s plan forSerenity (Sharding and Casper), why the Near team believes this release is not a 2020 event but likely 5 years or more away and why the Near Protoc...
Nov 09, 2018•50 min
Host Tom Shaughnessy welcomes on a very special guest, Emin Gün Sirer, for a far-reaching and extremely engaging crypto discussion. The conversation covers Emin's view on the problems current blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS) face and how he is addressing them with his radical new blockchain platform; Ava. The discussion covers the latest on Ava, the future of crypto and Emin's thoughts on numerous pressing issues the space faces. If you enjoy the episode, please rate and share it. Follow Emi...
Nov 07, 2018•1 hr 19 min
With all of the media's attention on Ripple, Wietse Wind joins Tom Shaughnessy to discuss building on XRP (the cryptocurrency) beyond Ripple (the company) Wietse has significant experience here as he has built the XRPTipBot which allows users of social media sites (Twitter) to send XRP while staying on the site. So far the tipbot has handled $50K in volume and the site has had 30k+ unique visitors. Ripple and XRP are not without their red flags, as we have discussed , but this conversation is me...
Nov 02, 2018•40 min
Mike Kane, the co-founder and CEO of Hydrogen joins us to discuss how the platform company is enabling the next generation of financial applications. Hydrogen's API's and connections offer a one-stop-shop bringing together all of the pieces needed to build an application (identity, documents, authentication, AI, payments) versus integrating numerous different companies for each piece (i.e. Civic for identity then Docusign for documents). Hydrogen is building on the Ethereum blockchain but also h...
Oct 31, 2018•54 min
Anthony Lusardi, a director of the Ethereum Classic cooperative joins us to give a full update on whether Ethereum Classic (Ticker ETC, $1B) is dead or alive, and the interplay with the larger Ethereum chain (Ticker ETH $21B). Beyond the engaging discussion on Ethereum Classic; this episode is perfect for those looking to understand what happens to crypto communities, governance, network effects, funding and goals after a fork, and the interplay with other chains. This is a timely Episode as we ...
Oct 29, 2018•50 min
Following the delay in Ethereum's next hard fork and all of the noise going on between scaling, security, proof-of-stake and sharding (Shasper), Eric Conner joins us for the ultimate conversation into a complete Ethereum update. We discuss why the hard fork was delayed, the future for Ethereum under proof-of-stake, throughput with sharding and what the future holds. For the first time we also take questions from Twitter. If you want to get or stay up to speed on Ethereum, this is the epsiode to ...
Oct 25, 2018•45 min
Today on the podcast we have Josh Stein, the CEO of Harbor. Harbor is one of the most well-known names in the security token world. This episode is the most comprehensive deep dive on security tokens, and is a must listen. The use cases of Security tokens, the benefits, and secondary trading. How security tokens can help lower the illiquidity discount for real-world assets that runs between 40% to 60%. Harbor vs its competitors (Polymath, Token Foundry etc) How Harbor is looking to complement tr...
Oct 22, 2018•53 min
Following Tether (USDT) losing its peg to the USD and dipping to $0.92, we have the Founder and CEO of MakerDAO Rune Christensen on the podcast to discuss MakerDAO's Dai stablecoin and the MKR token. The conversation deep dive into how the MKR system works, how Dai maintains its peg, Andreessen Horowitz's investment in MKR and the future of the system. - Dai vs Tether; how Tether will be replaced eventually - An update on multi-collateral Dai. There will be multiple collateral types for Dai incl...
Oct 17, 2018•56 min
Pascal Gauthier, President of Ledger, the provider of the popular crypto hardware wallet to update us on the future of the company. Topics include Komainu (Ledger partnered with Nomura to create a full-service institutional crypto service), Ledger Vault and the future of the company. - Ledger has sold 1M+ hardware wallets; whats next on the roadmap and functionality. - A discussion on Ledger Vault the institutional custodian offering; custody can unlock billions of inflows in our opinion. - How ...
Oct 15, 2018•32 min
Today on 51percent's Institutional Podcast we have Myles Snider, the CEO of Aurora EOS a candidate block producer for EOS. Myles was also previously head of research at Multicoin Capital. EOS has faced intense scrutiny over the past few weeks, and we take a detailed and unbiased look under the hood. Unbiased deep dive covering everything EOS Myles’ response to the massive controversy regarding EOS (limited nodes, vote buying, cartels, the future, renting out resources) Will EOS solve its issues ...
Oct 11, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Andrew Keys, the Co-Founder of ConsenSys Capital discusses all things blockchain and the future of both ConsenSys and Crypto - a must listen to episode. - ConsenSys Capital Overview (token Foundry, consensus digital securities, consensus ventures, Trustology, Balan3e) -Custodianship is the main factor for institutional adoption, through Trustology. - What types of investments ConsenSys Ventures is making (Rocket Pool, Exchanges) - Brooklyn Project (regulatory frameworks for tokens), Civil for Jo...
Oct 10, 2018•58 min
In the first episode of 51percent's Institutional Crypto Podcast, we have the co-founder and CEO of Polymath, Trevor Koverko. Polymath is one of the most well know and largest security token platforms, and is leading the charge to securitize potentially trillions in assets. In this episode we dive into - The creation of Polymath State of security token platforms Size of the security token market How Trevor's mentality has changed over the years since launching Polymath, and how Polymath wants to...
Oct 04, 2018•33 min
