How Polychain is faring during the crypto winter, where we are in the tech cycle, whether he thinks Ethereum 2.0 will deliver and how he views the competition in the smart contract space. We discuss the upcoming Facebook coin, what that might look like, and how his portfolio projects could compete against a token issued by a large company. We cover how regulatory uncertainty is affecting the development of crypto projects, what he thinks of the fact that some trends in the DeFi movement seem to mimic the risks leading up to the financial contract, why he's so excited about MakerDAO, what he makes of its difficulties keeping its USD peg, and why Tether hasn't lost its dollar peg despite being only 74% backed. Plus, we talked about how decentralized autonomous corporations could someday come into being, and what he thinks of on-chain governance systems today.
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Episode links:
Watch the full video on CoinDesk ("To the Moon and Back" under Main Stage): https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2019/videos
Polychain: https://polychain.capital
WSJ article on Olaf: https://www.wsj.com/articles/olaf-carlson-wee-rode-the-bitcoin-boom-to-silicon-valley-riches-can-he-survive-the-crash-1536681364
WSJ on Polychain's assets dropping: https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-fund-polychains-assets-drop-40-from-1-billion-mark-11554843471?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3
Facebook coin: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/technology/cryptocurrency-facebook-telegram.html?searchResultPosition=9
Tether only 74% backed: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-74-percent-backed-by-cash-and-equivalents
MakerDAO stability fee at 20%: https://www.coindesk.com/dai-stablecoins-stability-fee-nears-20-after-latest-makerdao-vote
Aragon vote being swung at the last moment: https://www.evanvanness.com/post/184616403861/aragon-vote-shows-the-perils-of-onchain-governance
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Laura's TEDx Talk: How Crypto Could Allow More People to Be Their Own Boss - Ep.047
The Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Bitcoin ABC vs. Bitcoin SV - Ep.046
Emin Gun Sirer on the SEC/EtherDelta Settlement and Why Code Is Speech - Ep.045
Charlie Lee, aka Satoshi Lite, on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Bitcoin White Paper - Ep.044
Fidelity Digital Asset Services' Tom Jessop on Why It's Serving Institutional Clients First - Ep.043
Why the Tether Situation Brought Up Memories of Mt. Gox - Ep.042
How We're Misusing the Word 'Decentralization' - Ep.041
How Abra Enables You to Buy $5 of an ETF-Like Token of the Top 10 Cryptos - Ep.040
Rune Christensen of MakerDao on Its $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz - Ep.039
Why 'Ethereum Killers' Will Have a Hard Time Attracting Its Developers - Ep.038
Alex Sunnarborg of Tetras Capital on Why He's Bearish on Ether - Ep.037
Shapeshift's About-Face: Why Now? - Ep.036
Pamela Morgan on How to Pass Your Crypto Assets On to Your Heirs - Ep.035
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