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As the cost of computing continues to plummet, the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically. In the future powerful computing capacity will be in billions of devices ranging from the lightbulb to the car door to new wearables. This new internet of things (IoT) will dramatically change our lives. 

Paul Brody, a Technology Strategist and the former VP of Mobile and IoT at IBM, joined us for a discussion of where the IoT is going. We discussed their white paper on why a decentralized, blockchain-based internet of things could solve the problems of the current IoT in terms of privacy, scalability, and business models.

Topics covered included:
        - What the Internet of Things and its core value proposition is
        - Why the current IoT business models are broken
        - How a decentralized IoT infrastructure would be more secure, scalable and economically feasible
        - What role the blockchain could play in a decentralized IoT
        - The three components of IBM’s ADEPT proof-of-concept


Links mentioned in this episode: 

- IBM Democracy of Devices Whitepaper: http://ibm.co/1HKIVAF
- Paul Brody IFA Talk: http://bit.ly/1aJYLOp
- IBM Empowering the Edge Report: http://ibm.co/1EiZlAF
- IBM Empowering the Edge Use Cases: http://ibm.co/1H7b0TM
- IBM & Samsung ADEPT Demo at CES: http://bit.ly/1zAXDTL

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EB75 – Paul Brody: Internet Of Things And The Democracy Of Devices

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Bitcoin's approach to solving the double spending problem is to make a collusion and attack on the network prohibitively expensive. One of the main factors that will determine Bitcoin's chance of survival in the long-term is whether the behavior that maximizes the profits of miners contributes to or sabotages the health of the network.

The game theory that determines this is complex and our understanding of it still incomplete. But research is increasing and two people who have been at the forefront of this work are Emin Gün Sirer, a professor in computer science at Cornell University, and Ittay Eyal, a post-doc at the same department.

They joined us for a fascinating discussion of their work on 'selfish mining', the incentive structure that underlies Bitcoin and their recent positive conclusions from the Miner's Dilemma. 

Topics covered included:
        - Emin Gün Sirer's early interest in cryptocurrencies and work on a cryptocurrency to incentivize bittorrent users in 2004
        - What selfish mining is and how miners could profit from withholding blocks
        - How an attacker would execute a selfish mining attack
        - Why the miner's dilemma implies that the equilibrium might be small mining pools
        - Why the lack of security of clients and servers is holding back adoption

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Selfish Mining paper (PDF): http://bit.ly/1DsCgEK
- Miner's Dilemma blog post: http://bit.ly/1EcdbSe
- Miner's Dilemma paper (PDF): http://bit.ly/1djBsgj
- Hacking, Distributed: http://bit.ly/1A4YTyJ
- Meni Rosenfeld's paper on mining pool reward systems (PDF): http://bit.ly/1djBFQL


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EB76 – Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal: From Selfish Miners To The Miner's Dilemma

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Whether the block size should be increased to 20MB has created more controversy than any other question in Bitcoin's recent history. For some, it is an urgent and necessary step in Bitcoin's evolution. Their view is that leaving the block size at 1MB would be irresponsible inaction with potentially catastrophic consequences. Others see increasing the block size as unnecessary and a dangerous first step down a slippery slope towards a more centralized Bitcoin.

We were joined by Mike Hearn, along with Gavin Andresen the most outspoken supporter of a block size increase. He is also the creator of Bitcoin XT, a modified fork of Bitcoin Core, that may become the vehicle for the push for bigger blocks if no agreement is reached regarding Bitcoin Core. Don't miss this crucial conversation!

Topics included:
- What would happen if blocks started being consistently full
- Whether bigger blocks create a centralization risk
- Why Bitcoin core development has become pervaded with toxic division
- What Bitcoin XT is and how it differs from Bitcoin Core
- The roadmap ahead and how a transition to BitcoinXT would occur
- Update on Lighthouse

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- The Capacity Cliff: http://bit.ly/1Ap8NRP
- Crash Landing: http://bit.ly/1HrOhNd
- Let's Talk Bitcoin! #217 The Bitcoin Block Size Discussion: http://bit.ly/1dXmOvU
- Gavin Andresen Moves Ahead with Push for Bigger Blocks: http://bit.ly/1FKzgFf
- Bitcoin Dev Mailing List: http://bit.ly/1QEhsS8
- Lighthouse: http://bit.ly/1eXxwCP

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EB82 – Mike Hearn - Blocksize Debate At The Breaking Point

Daniel and Yann discuss the themes Anthemis is looking at in the FinTech space and some of the deals the firm has done to bet on those trends. Yann also provides some insight into where he thinks the most exciting opportunities are in FinTech and gives advice to students and others that want to invest in FinTech.

Yann Ranchere, Partner at Anthemis Group

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Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in today's democracies are flawed and how a decentralized, transparent DAO making decisions using prediction markets could create more efficient democratic systems.

Topics covered included:
- Merkle proofs, Merkle Roots and his early forays into cryptography
- Blockchains as living organisms
- Why DAOs will be subject to a Darwinian evolutionary process
- Why voting is flawed and we need new governance methods to save democracy
- The concept of a DAO democracy
- How prediction markets and futarchy would help govern a DAO democracy

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Ralph Merkle DAO Democracy Paper [PDF] http://bit.ly/29XR7RG
- Ralph Merkle's Homepage http://bit.ly/2anLaPA
- Ralph Merkle's Wikipedia page http://bit.ly/2am6xE6
- EB98 - Robin Hanson: Futarchy, Prediction Markets http://bit.ly/2aE3djy
- Tim Urban: Why Cryonics Makes Sense http://bit.ly/2akC6MV
- Alcor - Life Extension Foundation http://bit.ly/2a9P7IM

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EB141 – Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs

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Before 2013 few people paid attention to Bitcoin and blockchain, yet even back in the 1990s a vibrant group of prioneers pursued the vision of financial cryptography and digital cash. One of these was financial cryptographer and software developer Ian Grigg, who today works as an architecture consultant for R3.

Grigg joined us for a discussion of the history of the digital cash, Bitcoin and his work on Ricardian Contracts, which foreshadowed today's smart contracts.

Topics covered included:
- The origin story of financial cryptography
- DigiCash and the startup scene around it in the 1990s
- Ricardian Contracts and why contracts are central to digital assets
- Ricardian Contracts vs blockchain

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Ricardian Contract Paper http://bit.ly/2cOnQsU
- Financial Cryptography Website http://bit.ly/2dM4men
- Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers http://bit.ly/2d9GRXT
- R3CEV http://bit.ly/2dVJiRX
- Brown, Carlyle, Grigg & Hearn: Corda - An Introduction http://bit.ly/2dmtPLP

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151 – Ian Grigg: Ricardian Contracts And Digital Assets Prehistory

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As content becomes more and more abundant and immediately available at our fingertips, our limited attention is a barrier for those whose business it is to attract and harness it. In this context, large (social) media companies understand that attention is a scarce commodity, and, as has been demonstrated, those who control attention wield enormous power over our society.

We're joined by Greg Meredith, CTO of Synereo, to talk about how this new Blockchain platform rebuild the attention economy. In a sense, Synereo is to attention, what Bitcoin is to money, in effect, removing intermediaries from the transaction between those who have attention, and those who wish to attract it. Greg, also gives his insights on how functional programming languages could allow for verifiable computational smart contracts. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

- Greg's background as a mathematician and his work on Microsoft's BizTalk Process Orchestration
- How he transitioned into the crypto-currency space
- What is Synereo and what the project is trying to achieve
- Greg's thoughts on the attention economy and how it is fundamentally broken
- Synereo's technology stack
- How Vlad Zamfir's Casper consensus algorithm influenced Synereo
- Rholang, Synereo's functional smart-contracting language
- Synereo's economic model and product roadmap

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Synereo: https://synereo.com
- Synereo White Paper: https://github.com/synereo/synereo.github.io/raw/master/whitepapers/synereo.pdf
- Logic as a distributive law: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.02247v2.pdf
- Quit social media by Dr. Cal Newport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7hkPZ-HTk
- Deep Work by Dr. Cal Newport: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692

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154 – Greg Meredith: Rebuilding The Attention Economy From The Ground Up With Synereo

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Attracting over 70 of the world's biggest financial institutions to its consortium in just over a year, R3 has accomplished a formidable task. Aiming to rethink the fabric of the financial system, they first conducted experiments testing blockchain platforms for their member and last year began developing their own distributed ledger platform: Corda. 

The effort to build Corda was lead by R3 CTO Richard Brown and the former Bitcoin developer and R3 lead architect Mike Hearn. In a wide-ranging discussion, we covered the vision of the project and why it represents a radical departure from existing blockchain platforms.

Topics covered included:

- The origin story of R3
- Why existing blockchain designs didn't meet their needs
- How the R3 team lead a design effort to develop a new platform from scratch
- The business problem Corda is aiming to solve
- The components of Corda's architecture
- How Corda handles privacy
- Notaries and preventing double spends
- Open sourcing Corda and the plan to join Hyperledger

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- R3 Corda: What Makes it Different http://bit.ly/2f1SamA
- Introducing R3 Corda: A Distributed Ledger for Financial Services http://bit.ly/2dSqrYm (APRIL)
- Corda: An Introduction [PDF] http://bit.ly/2eR4ky5 (AUGUST)
- R3 Website http://bit.ly/2dVJiRX
- E151 - Ian Grigg: Ricardian Contracts and Digital Assets Prehistory http://bit.ly/2f1V6ji
- Smart Contract Templates: Foundations, Design Landscape & Research Directions http://bit.ly/2f0wCY1

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155 – Richard Brown & Mike Hearn: Corda - A Distributed Ledger For Financial Services

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As is the case with most luxury goods, the diamond industry is faced with the issues of theft, fraud, and counterfeiting. Illegal activity is present at every level of the supply chain, which collectively costs the industry and its insurers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. In recent years, international treaties and regulation have been put in place in an attempt to combat illegal activity, but criminals are most often a step ahead.

Leanne Kemp, CEO of Everledger, joins us to explain how her company is using advanced geological techniques, and blockchains, to bring more traceability to the diamond industry. Everledger, whose clients include many of the largest insurance companies, builds software which allows for a diamond's unique characteristics to be hashed and notarized in the blockchain. Hence, a stone's provenance, and the trail of ownership can be traced, therefore limiting the opportunities for fraud and making it difficult for stolen diamonds to re-enter the market. 

Topic's covered include:

- Leanne's background as a technologist
- A broad overview of the diamond industry
- A look at the diamond supply chain
- What roles banks and insurance companies play in the supply chain
- How diamonds are uniquely fingerprinted
- The Kimberly process and other regulations
- Everledger's technology stack and business model
- Other sectors which can also benefit from increased traceability


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- Everledger: http://everledger.io
- Kimberley Process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_Process_Certification_Scheme

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156 – Leanne Kemp: Detecting Diamond Fraud And Theft With Everledger

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Writing his college thesis on Bitcoin in 2012 and becoming Coinbase's first employee in 2013, Olaf Carlson-Wee has been at the forefront of cryptocurrency for many years. Recently, he left Coinbase to start Polychain Capital, a hedge fund focused solely on investing in cryptocurrencies and protocol tokens. Olaf joined us to discuss his journey in the industry and the investment thesis behing Polychain. 

Topics discussed in this episode:
- How Olaf Carlson-Wee became Coinbase's first employee
- The investment thesis behind Polychain Capital
- Why protocol tokens represent a huge investment opportunity
- The current state of tokensales
- Why the blockchain crowdfunding campaigns will start resembling VC deal structure
- His view on the state of the Bitcoin network and community

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Polychain Capital: http://polychain.capital	
- Beyond Bitcoin: The future of cryptocurrencies - The Signal: https://blog.mixpanel.com/2016/07/27/blockchain-technology-olaf-carlson-wee/
- Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency—It's Something Way Weirder | WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/bitcoin-will-never-currency-something-way-weirder/
- The Golden Age Of Open Protocols – AVC: http://avc.com/2016/07/the-golden-age-of-open-protocols/
- Blockchain Tokens and the dawn of the Decentralized Business Model: https://blog.coinbase.com/app-coins-and-the-dawn-of-the-decentralized-business-model-8b8c951e734f#.rl4mv6p98
- Fat Protocols | Union Square Ventures: http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols
- a16z and USV invest $10m in new digital asset hedge fund: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/09/andreessen-horowitz-and-union-square-ventures-invest-10-million-in-new-digital-assets-hedge-fund/#2e6f5ce95e97
- The future is a decentralized internet | TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/08/the-future-is-a-decentralized-internet/

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173 – Olaf Carlson-Wee: Polychain Capital and the Rise of Protocol Tokens

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Years into the great Bitcoin scaling debate no solution is in reach. Neither bigger blocks nor Segregated Witness have anywhere near consensus support. With the conflict escalating, a Bitcoin fork has become a real possibility.

Electrum Developer Thomas Voegtlin joined us to discuss the state of the Bitcoin scaling debate. We discussed Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost, SegWit activation without miner support and how a Bitcoin fork could play out. Possible outcomes include that Bitcoin Unlimited gains a majority of hashing power and starts mining bigger blocks. In the event of a fork, a proof-of-work change could be done to defend the minority chain from miner attacks. And lately a proposal was brought forward to activate SegWit without the support of the hashing power.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- ASICBoost and its potential role in the conflict
- How a Bitcoin fork could happen
- How to split coins in case of a fork
- How UASF could be used to activate SegWit without miner support
- Requirements for UASF to be safe
- How Electrum would handle a fork

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Electrum Bitcoin Wallet: https://electrum.org/#home
- ASICBoost – Hacker Noon: https://medium.com/@samcole_74219/asicboost-655a73d48ae4
- Bitcoin's New Controversy: The AsicBoost Allegations Explained - CoinDesk: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-new-controversy-asicboost-allegations-explained/
- Timo Hanke on ASICBoost and SegWit Non-Activation: https://twitter.com/timothanke/status/849896505653706753
- From AsicBoost to UASF: Greg Maxwell on Bitcoin's Path Forward - CoinDesk: http://www.coindesk.com/asicboost-uasf-greg-maxwell-bitcoins-path-forward/
- [bitcoin-dev] Thomas Voegtlin: Soft Fork Threshold Signaling Proposal: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/014146.html
- UASF Working Group: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/uasf/
- [bitcoin-dev] Greg Maxwell: I do not support the BIP 148 UASF: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/014152.html
- Thomas Voegtlin: Electrum, SPV Wallets And Bitcoin Aliases — Epicenter: https://epicenter.tv/episode/069/

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179 – Thomas Voegtlin: Blocksize, Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost and Activating SegWit

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Anyone who has ever started a company knows just how tedious that process that can be. Whether it's establishing a shareholder's agreement, defining the company's constitutional structure, raising funds, or transferring shares, corporate governance procedures remain largely paper-based, requiring validation from multiple stakeholders, and their lawyers. Blockchain technologies, and specifically smart contracts, provide the rails upon which these processes can be digitized and streamlined, reducing operational costs, eliminating errors and automating menial tasks.

Manu Thanabalan, CTO of Otonomos, joins us to discuss how his company is leveraging smart contracts to accelerate incorporation and automate corporate governance. Otonomos provides the tools and services which allow for anyone to start a company in any of the jurisdictions they support. Using their platform, founders are able to define board members and issue shares, while captables are kept up-to-date in real-time. Day-to-day governance mechanisms and standard procedures such as voting and share transfers are automated through a smart contact, which complies with local jurisdictional regulation. 

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Mano's background as a quantitative trader and how he transitioned into blockchain
- The fundamental problem Otonomos is addressing
- How we may be able to unlock a tremendous amount of value by liberating shares currently locked in private companies
- Leveraging smart contracts to automate standardized corporate legal procedures
- The types of constitutional rules which can be digitized and automated with smart contracts
- The ability to simplify accounting and auditing with Otonomos
- The Otonomos technology stack
- The current state of Otonomos and their product roadmap

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- Otonomos Website: http://otonomos.com

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180 – Mano Thanabalan: Simplifying Incorporation & Automating Corporate Governance with Otonomos

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Naming systems are an important component of any networked information system. It's difficult to imagine how the Internet could have been adopted by the masses had it not been for the Domain Name System, which translates machine-readable IP addresses into human-readable domain names. Blockchains, with their long and complex address formats, suffer from a similar problem. One might think a solution would be to apply the same naming system architecture we have for the public Internet to public blockchains. But DNS, in the eyes of many, is a largely flawed system. Centrally controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet domain names are vulnerable to censorship and barriers to entry are kept artificially high – registering a new Top Level Domain (ex: .epicenter) costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We're joined by Alex Van de Sande and Nick Johnson to discuss their approach to creating an open, secure and decentralized naming system for the Ethereum Network. The Ethereum Naming System (ENS) allows users to register .eth domain names, which can be used in supporting Ethereum wallets and clients. Names are reserved by placing a deposit in a smart contract and can be mapped to any Ethereum addresses. So rather than sending funds to 0x8cd...0935, one would simply need to type a memorable name like epicenter.eth into their wallet. Backed by the Ethereum Foundation, ENS will likely become the defacto standard for name registration in Ethereum. 

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Alex and Nick's respective backgrounds and roles in the Ethereum Foundation
- How the Internet's Domain Name System works
- The problems and pain points with DNS and how it is governed today
- What is ENS and what problems it is addressing
- The ENS auction system and how names are registered
- The different parties involved in ENS
- ENS's technical architecture and governing smart contract
- The current governance model of ENS and future plans for increased decentralization of governance
- ENS's economic model and technical roadmap

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Ethereum Name Service: https://ens.domains
- ENS Registrar: http://registrar.ens.domains/
- ENS Github Project: https://github.com/ethereum/ens/
- ENS Gitter Channel: https://gitter.im/ethereum/go-ethereum/name-registry
- ENS Twitter Bot: https://twitter.com/EnsBot

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183 – Alex Van de Sande & Nick Johnson: ENS – A Global Naming System for Ethereum

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Over the past year, cryptoassets have exploded in popularity. From a mere $18bn at the start of 2017, the aggregate market cap of all cryptoassets recently reached $820bn as interest in Bitcoin and its cousins went mainstream. Jack Tatar and Chris Burniske joined us to discuss their new book 'Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond'. It is one of the first systematic views on cryptoassets from a mainstream investor's perspective. 

Topics discussed in this episode:
- How Jack and Chris originally became interested in Bitcoin and cryptoassets
- Why the term cryptoassets is a good umbrella term for the different kinds of tokens
- The different categories of cryptoassets: Cryptocurrencies, cryptocommodities and cryptotokens
- How cryptoassets fit into an overall investment portfolio
- How to value cryptoassets
- Whether we are in a cryptoasset bubble and expectations for the future

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Cryptoassets on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671
- Cryptoassets - Book Website: https://www.bitcoinandbeyond.com/
- Cryptoasset Valuations – Chris Burniske – Medium: https://medium.com/@cburniske/cryptoasset-valuations-ac83479ffca7
- Why I like the term, “Cryptoassets” – Chris Burniske – Medium: https://medium.com/@cburniske/why-i-like-the-term-cryptoassets-ab6b76e1ee33
- The Crypto J-Curve – Chris Burniske – Medium: https://medium.com/@cburniske/the-crypto-j-curve-be5fdddafa26
- Bitcoins are the best investment in my retirement account - MarketWatch: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoins-are-the-best-investment-in-my-retirement-account-2016-06-17


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#218 Chris Burniske & Jack Tatar: Cryptoassets - The Rise of a New Asset Class

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That decentralized networks represent a massive investment opportunity is no longer a controversial view. In the last year alone, over 200 funds dedicated to investing in cryptoassets have been created. 

But the principles and frameworks to understand this new world are still in its infancy. One fund at the forefront of advancing this understanding has been Multicoin Capital. Their Founders Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain joined us to discuss some of the concepts they use to invest in decentralized networks.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Google Glass and the origin story of Multicoin Capital
- Why the most used smart contract platform will produce the winning store of value
- Why they are bearish on Bitcoin
- Why money is best thought of as an adjective not a noun
- Differentiating between work, payment and burn-and-mint tokens
- Why work tokens capture network value better than payment tokens
- The future of Multicoin

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Multicoin Capital Website: https://multicoin.capital/
- New Models for Utility Tokens: https://multicoin.capital/2018/02/13/new-models-utility-tokens/
- Blockchains: A New Social Order: https://multicoin.capital/2017/10/06/blockchains-new-social-order/
- The Smart Contract Network Fallacy: https://multicoin.capital/2017/08/28/smart-contract-network-effect-fallacy/
- The Opportunity for Interoperable Chains of Chains: https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/27/opportunity-interoperable-chains-chains/
- Multicoin Capital Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-multicoin-capital-podcast/id1337809097?mt=2

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#223 Kyle Samani & Tushar Jain: Multicoin - Emerging Frameworks for Cryptoasset Investing

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The healthcare industry is paradoxical. On the one hand, treatment technologies represent some of the most advanced science known to humankind, while some administrative tasks are still performed using paper and fax machine. Studies have shown that the administrative costs of healthcare can represent up to one-third of the total cost of care. Also, as diagnosis, treatment, and care, becomes increasingly data-driven and patient-specific, the industry needs to adopt more secure and robust technologies to manage patient data and communications between the patient and the different participants in the healthcare supply chain.

We are joined by John Bass and Corey Todaro, who are respectively CEO and CPO of Hashed Health, an innovation firm focused on accelerating the meaningful development of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for the industry. Hashed Health works to build solutions which leverage blockchain to solve some of the most important challenges facing this sector.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- John and Corey's respective backgrounds in the building technology for the healthcare sector
- Nashville as a hub for the US healthcare industry
- What is Hashed Health and what problems the company is trying to solve
- The particular issues facing the US and global healthcare sectors
- How healthcare in the US differs from that of European countries
- The different entities of Hashed Health: Hashed Collective, Hashed Labs, and Hashed Enterprise
- Hashed Enterprise and the products they are building for the industry

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Hashed Health Website: http://hashedhealth.com
- Hashed Health Blog: https://hashedhealth.com/blog/
- Hashed Health Podcast: https://hashedhealth.com/media/podcasts/

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#228 Corey Todaro & John Bass: Hashed Health – Rebooting The Healthcare Industry

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