How can online games as alternate realities be good simulations for how governance problems can be solved? What are issues of syncing a digital, measurable, and "perfect" world with unpredictable meat space? How can creators control behaviors a

E22: Emil Pitkin, GovPredict - How does information flow in meat-space politics?

Jan 6th, 2018 49m 44s

In this episode, I talk to Emil Pitkin, founder and CEO of GovPredict and researcher at the Wharton School @ UPenn. We talk about how the meat-space politics works - lobbyists, PACs, voting, and how information flows. As technologists, we often

E21: Kelley Weaver, Melrose PR - how does one get attention in Blockchain now that everyone is doing it?

Dec 18th, 2017 44m 11s

We talk about how marketing is different in Blockchain land, how ICOs might be good or bad - and how to pick projects both for success, legalities, and ethics. How can one get attention in Blockchain now when everyone is doing it?

E20: Arthur Brock, Holo - Ugly duckling or savior of blockchain dApps?

Dec 5th, 2017 48m 52s

This episode I talk to Arthur Brock, who is behind Holochain and MANY more things. Holo is betting on Blockchain not being the right design and wants to offer an alternative for running decentralized apps. What is it like to bet against the tre

E19: Jack du Rose, Colony - digital distribution of labor in trustless open orgs

Nov 29th, 2017 39m 48s

We talk about holacracy, technology enabling collaboration, and the future of work. What happens when your reputation and influence is driven only by your contributions? And when you can loosely collaborate with anyone, even immortals, do we ge

E18: Julie Maupin - Which Governments should fear or jump on Blockchain

Nov 20th, 2017 48m 50s

Which countries should drive tokenization and which should wait or could even lose from transparency? Massive amounts of data don't mean oversight or insight. What does a lawyer fear in tokenization and rushing into the future of ultra digitali

E17: Scott, Sweetbridge - building an Economy OS and spreading the wealth

Nov 1st, 2017 50m 7s

This episode I talk to Scott Nelson from Sweetbridge. Huge amounts of money is wasted by uncertainty in supply chains and blockchain is the ideal mature solution. How does a blockchain company acquiring another blockchain company?

E16: Elizabeth, Lightning - is bitcoin is a technology that goes beyond governments

Oct 17th, 2017 55m 16s

What happens when Bitcoin supports microtransactions and mass-transactions per second? When is an ICO just snake oil, raising too much money, or actually sane? How should a country view Bitcoin?

E15: Paul & Max, Terra0 - if the forest owns itself and a tree falls...

Oct 6th, 2017 47m 58s

Terra0 is a project for self-governing forests. What is really humanities view on nature and forests? What could happen if we gave forests more agency? What would it optimize for and would it harvest us for the minerals? Or just forbid us to en

E14: Giuseppe Littera, Sardex - can we create a circular, local economy

Sep 27th, 2017 59m 51s

What happens if you create a local credit? Will it stimulate a local economy? Will it sub-optimize the capitalistic system? How do you scale and replicate it?

E13: Matt Liston, Gnosis - how can we predict and inform the future

Sep 17th, 2017 37m 1s

What is a prediction market and how can we use it to predict the future, but also to inform people and maybe give robots emotions? How can we create markets for algorithms? And how can markets change politics and society?Will blockchains be a

E12: Jutta Steiner, Parity - interoperable blockchains and the role of regulation

Sep 12th, 2017 42m 18s

What happens when you combine blockchains? How does the technology impact society? What is the role of rules and regulations in a decentralized world?

E11: Jason Teutsch, Truebit - scaling blockchains, even if they are an illusion

Sep 4th, 2017 32m 46s

If we trade in privacy and performance for immutability, transparency, and decentralization, what do we get? How do we handle on-off-chain verification and scaling?

E10: Federico and Clément, Kleoterion - a blockchain based jury system

Aug 22nd, 2017 1h 1m

How to handle legal disputes in a trustless way. What do Blockchains add? What are the game theory challenges?

E09: Galen Wolfe-Pauly, Urbit - a user owned internet on top of the internet

Aug 10th, 2017 56m 2s

What happens when users get to control a piece of the internet. What does this browser of servers mean when we can use own client and still communicate? Can we create a new Internet owned by the people, an internet designed like a city by an ar

E08: Luis Cuende, Aragon - governance, blockchain cap tables, and nation states

Aug 1st, 2017 38m 50s

What is a fully digital, programmable, and transparent organization? What happens when computers can start companies? What is the future of nation states and the race to be crypto friendly?

E07: Joe Urgo, District0x - distributed marketplaces, aligned interests, and voting

Jul 24th, 2017 54m 23s

What happens when marketplaces are owned by its users? How can governance create value and create fair control? Why we need non-regulated entities. How District0x are using the funds from their ICO.

E06: Kenny Rowe, Maker - how to make a trustless stable currency

Jul 17th, 2017 1h 6m

What is a trustless, stable currency? And why is it needed? Who are the stakeholders to make sure it stays stable and well governed?

E05: Xander Dunn, Numerai - the incentives and tech needed to get AIs and people to collaborate

Jul 10th, 2017 53m 12s

How does a crowdsourced AI hedge fund work? The game theory of getting people and AIs to collaborate. How following the law can be cool. Are ICOs and Blockchain funding could be the new way to fund the common good?

E04: Stefano Bernardi - getting into investing in Bitcoin and Blockchains

Jun 30th, 2017 1h 2m

How bitcoins a better gold. How Blockchain enables new startups. Will Blockchain end unicorns? Participating in ICOs and investments.

E03: Vinay Gupta - societal disaster and end of humanity, Ethereum, and his plans on doing an Elon Musk

Jun 25th, 2017 1h 1m

What will kill all life on earth? How might a software ecology (aka Blockchain) save us by being a world computer? Is running politics like Survivor the solution? What can we do to not kill our species?