E07 - Tornado Cash and The Merge; Bryan and Jeff Roundtable 1

2022-09-08

Bryan Ventura is here for our first roundtable; Bryan is a lawyer specializing in blockchain and Web3. Today we're covering two main topics: Tornado cash - what is it and why was it sanctioned - and the downstream effects of platform level censorship along with freedom of expression and how open source code fits in. Then we dive into Eth2.0 (I still call it that) - The Merge - we talk about some of the history of proof of work transitioning to proof of stake ethereum and what people are expecting afterwards. We wrap up with a shoutout to Roger Ver and Zuckerberg's metaverse. Timestamps:

Bryan Ventura is here for our first roundtable; Bryan is a lawyer specializing in blockchain and Web3. Today we're covering two main topics:

Tornado cash - what is it and why was it sanctioned - and the downstream effects of platform level censorship along with freedom of expression and how open source code fits in.
Then we dive into Eth2.0 (I still call it that) - The Merge - we talk about some of the history of proof of work transitioning to proof of stake ethereum and what people are expecting afterwards.
We wrap up with a shoutout to Roger Ver and Zuckerberg's metaverse.

Timestamps:
00:00 intro
00:57 Tornado cash intro
06:27 OFAC & US regulatory influence
09:27 Circle censoring USDC tx
13:30 Multiple identities & dusting accounts
17:08 freedom of speech
23:51 Dutch jailed the founder
25:57 contributing to open source
27:18 FATF virtual asset guidance
32:56 is code speech
38:26 Eth2.0, the merge & the history of PoW
45:46 merge performance & fees
51:20 validators
55:37 deflationary distribution of ETH
59:15 Roger Ver
1:01:11 metaverse
1:13:20 fin