The speaker discusses forking the blockchain, quantifying trust, and reputation as a way to work around the pulling up the ladder effect of social media censorship, specifically Facebook and Twitter. The speaker encourages using the First Amendment case law as an external standard rather than having the power to decide who has access to the public forum.
The podcast discusses the development of a decentralized social network on blockchain that has the potential to bring a revolution in social media, and the features it proposes to support through blockchain technology.
The modularity of blockchain design allows for the easy integration of new features such as secure cadmium or different consensus protocols, resulting in faster experimentation and implementation of ideas.
The interviewer describes a strange encounter with a potential blockchain developer job candidate who appeared to be avoiding direct questions and repeating buzzwords instead.
The blockchain has limited capacity in terms of scaling which causes friction when transitioning from Bitcoin to the second layer for small daily transactions. Zcash, another fork of Bitcoin allows for private transactions through different privacy routines.
Citidao aims to create a decentralized on-chain city that utilizes blockchain technology to speed up transactions, reduce bureaucracy, and make land use transparent. The next steps for Citidao include voting on what gets built on the land and who gets to use it when, all through smart contracts.
This podcast discusses the potential of using blockchain technology to solve the issue of ticket stub fraud in the concert industry, where fake tickets and scalpers continue to be a problem.
