40 – B1June Announcements with Chaney Moore
Jun 10, 2019
Friend of the show, Chaney Moore, went to the much anticipated and hyped B1June event. He returns to the show to tell us about his experience and explain the announcements! https://eos.io/strategic-vision/
38 – First Government on a Blockchain! Liberland Chooses EOSIO
Apr 24, 2019
“The Free Republic of Liberland welcomes all members of the EOS community and other blockchain projects to participate in building a true decentralized and free country.”
This episode is about a fun and easy game to play that runs on the EOS blockchain. You can earn tokens playing for free or you can bet in a pvp game against someone else. Check it out!
33 – MurMur is Twitter on Blockchain but better!
Mar 11, 2019
Today I interview Abhinav Ramesh, CEO and Founder of MurMur, the new-age decentralized microblogging platform that lets you control your data, publish freely and earn content rewards.
#31 – pt1: Free EOS, Airdrops & More with Chaney Moore
Mar 04, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsJvlRp-fd4
#30 – Ditch WhatsApp for SenseChat on EOS with Crystal Rose
Jan 11, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktv5-lXdm58
Join us to talk about SenseChat with Crystal Rose. Links:https://www.sense.chat/Beta Access LinkPre-order for iOS LinkTelegram
#29 – Making EOS Easy and Smart with SendEOS and Sagewise
Dec 19, 2018
Join us to learn about an easy way to get others using EOS and how Sagewise is increasing transaction confidence via blockchain dispute resolution. Our guests are Amy Wan and Dan Rice!
https://youtu.be/W1pA_H0T6CA
SendEOShttps://sendeos.iohttps://t.me/sendeos
Sagewisehttps://sagewise.iohttps://t.me/sagewise
#28 – CPU & EOS Updates with Chaney Moore
Dec 18, 2018
Chaney Moore is back to talk about CPU, Dapps and other EOS Updates.
https://youtu.be/lwJV_yxBjes
Links:
CPUEmergency.com
CPUEmergency Telegram
#27 – Monetize Your Data with Lumeos
Nov 02, 2018
In episode 27, I interviewed Ali Ayyash the Founder and CEO of Lumeos, a decentralized infrastructure for data sharing where users can own and monetize their data by doing surveys. Listen in!
Links:
Lumeos website
Instagram
Telegram
Facebook
Twitter
Medium
#26 – WORBLI.io CEO Domenic Thomas talks about this EOS Sister Chain
Oct 25, 2018
Join the CEO of WORBLI.io, Domenic Thomas, and me for a great conversation about WORBLI.io, an enterprise blockchain platform that brings users, developers and businesses together. So, if you have any big ideas for blockchain related businesses but don't know how to get if off the ground this is the podcast for you! Listen in!
Links:
Worbli.io
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
Telegram
Medium
Steemit
Youtube
Instagram
#25 – Overcoming Censorship with Novusphere.io
Oct 10, 2018
Censorship is a real issue, especially on the internet. To discuss this issue, I interviewed Asphyxia from Novusphere.io about overcoming censorship through blockchain technology. Very interesting! Join us!
Links:
Trello
Discord
https://eos-forum.org/#/referendum
Novusphere
#24 – The Social Supercomputer with John Heeter from BOID
Oct 03, 2018
In episode 24, I interviewed John Heeter. John is the founder of Boid, a social supercomputer network. We talked about the in's and out's of this very cool project. Join us!
Links:
Boid
Twitter
#23 – CPU Emergency and Airdrops with Chaney Moore
Sep 26, 2018
In today's episode, Chaney Moore came back to the Exploring EOS podcast again to tell us about his new project, CPU Emergency, and to discuss upcoming air drops. Check it out!
Links:
CPU Emergency
Chaney's Airdrop Spreadsheet
Karma App
Horus Pay
Bit Joy
Emanate
Worbli
Trybe
EP 22 – CryptoPeso with EOS Venezuela
Sep 11, 2018
In today's episode, I spoke with Alberto Guerrero Montilla the founder of EOS Venezuela and the CryptoPeso. We discuss the economic and political issues currently going on in Venezuela and how EOS blockchain can open up the market and help the Venezuelan people. Please join me in this very interesting conversation!
Link:
Website
#21 – Parsl.co Cannabis Supply Chain on the EOS Blockchain
Aug 25, 2018
In today's episode, I had a great conversation with Isaac Balbin. Isaac is the CEO of Parsl which is a platform that creates a supply chain for cannabis that is efficient, transparent and safe. Join in on the conversation!
Here are links:
Parsl.co
https://parsl.co
https://t.me/parslio
#20 – The EOS Dollar
Aug 07, 2018
In today's episode I discuss my concept idea for the EOS Dollar, a stable coin concept. I enjoy coming up with ideas to contribute to the EOS community. Listen in and let me know your thoughts or if this is a concept you'd like to run with!
#19 HireVibes and other Airdrops with Chaney Moore
Aug 01, 2018
We were joined again by Chaney Moore to discuss Airdrops today. We discuss HireVibes, a job recruitment industry disrupting project, in depth and learn about some new upcoming airdrops too. Take a look!
Links:
Chaney's Medium Article
Chaney's airdrop document
Chaney's Twitter
HireVibes website
HireVibes Twitter
HireVibes Github
HireVibes Steemit
#18 – EOS Forks, ONO and EOSTalk.io with Katie Roman
Jul 25, 2018
I was joined by Katie Roman during today's episode. Katie is loosely affiliated with several different EOS projects and is a committed EOS community member. We discuss EOS forks, ONO, EOSTalk.io amongst other things. Listen in!
Links:
Katie Roman
Telegram @summerskin
EOS Talk.io
https://www.eostalk.io/forums
Ono
Official website: https://www.ono.chat
Telegram: https://t.me/ONOCN
Sina weibo: https://weibo.com/ONOofficial
Wechat official account: onogogo
Twitter:https://twitter.com/onosocial
Medium: https://medium.com/@ONOsocial
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@onosocial
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ONOofficial
#17 – EOS New York
Jul 17, 2018
During today's podcast, I had a very interesting conversation with Kevin Rose, a co-founder of EOS New York. EOS New York is a block producer in the top 21. They have been leading the way in many areas of the EOS ecosystem. Join us!
Links:
Website
Blog
GitHub
Twitter
Steemit
Telegram
#16 All the Airdrops with Chaney Moore
Jul 10, 2018
Enlightening conversation with Chaney Moore about his document about airdrops and so much more. Check it out!
Links:
The article we discussed.
The spreadsheet we discussed.
Twitter
#15 EOS Tribe, their Incubator and QOQO Decentralized Answers
Jul 07, 2018
Great chat with EOS Tribe about their Block Producer, Incubator and dapp QOQO!
Links:
EOS Tribe
Telegram
Twitter
QOQO.io
Telegram
Twitter
#14 How to Get Governments to Replace Fiat with Crypto
Jun 29, 2018
How do we get more major countries to adopt crypto as their legal tender currency?
This is the question I was pondering when I came up with the following idea.
Consider a country like Venezuela that is currently running the printing press so much that they're seeing something like 1400% inflation! This is a terrible thing for the people of Venezuela and eventually it has to stop. The government can only print so much before they need to come up with a new currency or some how reset their currency.
When a country gets to that point they are extremely desperate. They really need a bail out because they've screwed things up so badly and they are going to need money or they will likely lose power. Usually they've already stolen, through inflation and probably taxes, most of the money of the populace. There's not much more they can do.
I don't like the idea of helping out a government like Venezuela's, really it should be abolished. However, a way to bring some civility and freedom back to that country would be a return to sound money. A great way to do that is through cryptocurrencies.
Of course Venezuela has already tried that, but no one trusts them so I think it was a bit of a flop. If they were to adopt a crypto that they have no control over, then it would work. Even better if they were to adopt a token on the EOS blockchain, not only would they have to abide by the constraints of sound money but also the constraints of the EOS constitution.
Imagine the Venezuelan government having their crypto frozen because they violated the EOS constitution because they committed violence against a fellow EOS token holder in Venezuela! Well, here's a way that could happen.
Venezuela is just one example here. There are other options that I will outline at the bottom, be sure you read them :)
The Smart Contract
Create a 'Crypto Venezuela Coin', CVC from here on out. The CVC would be a smart contract on the EOS blockchain. This would provide fast confirmation times and high transaction throughput.
The Token Supply
The token supply would have to be big. I tend to like the idea of more coins and fewer decimals. But I think I would need to be divisible into at least 100 Trillion indivisible units.
The Inflation
I know, I know, inflation isn't sound money. Well, even gold has some small level of inflation so bear with me on this... The CVC smart contract would have set inflation of say 3%. That inflation would go into a 'lockbox' escrow account that no one has access to.
I'm partial to the idea of not making the inflation a percentage but rather the same amount every year. But either way would probably work.
The Token Distribution
First, do an airdrop of say 10% of tokens to EOS token holders. We love those EOS token holders :)
Second, do a series of airdrops to verified Venezuelan citizens.
I'll explain. Of course we would have to partner with blockchain based identity system. Hopefully we'll have something good enough soon! The reason for this will be come clear later.
The reason we do a series of drops is to incentivize a greater number of Venezuelans to register. So maybe an airdrop each month for 6 months of 10% of token supply. That way early adopters get rewarded but there's time for others to come in and get some. Maybe some sort of referral incentive would be good since we want as many people to have some as possible.
Back to The Contract - The Government
As part of the Ricardian Contract (that's the human readable contract), we have it written that the Venezuelan government can take control of the Escrow account as soon as they fulfill certain stipulations that they have control over.
The stipulations could then be something like:
Adopt the CVC as your legal tender/official currency for all governmental transactions
Agree to the EOS constitution
Abolish taxation
Abolish price controls
#3 and #4 are redundant after agreeing to #2.
How can something like this be decided on chain? Through arbitration.
#13 Jose Toriello from EOS Meso, Block Producer
Jun 27, 2018
In today's podcast I had a great conversation with Jose Toriello who is a representative from EOS Meso, a block producer located in Guatemala. EOS Meso is doing fascinating work educating the Guatemalan central bank about cryptocurrencies, working to improve local infrastructure and more all with EOS! Tune in and enjoy!
Links:
www.eosmeso.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eosmeso/status/1007430122813747200?s=19
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@eosmeso
Telegram: @eosmeso
Wechat: eosmeso
#12 Myles Snider of Multicoin Capital on EOS
Jun 19, 2018
I had a great chat with Myles Snider of Multicoin Capital about EOS. He's a sharp guy who has done a lot of research on blockchain technology and the projects that are out there. Listen in to this episode to get his take on EOS. hint: He likes it.
Links:
@myles_snider on Twitter
Multicoin Capital Website
DPOS Research Paper
EOS Research Paper
#11 KARMA App & Airdrop with Dallas Rushing
Jun 17, 2018
I had a great chat on this episode with Dallas Rushing on his new dApp running on EOS called KARMA. They will be doing an airdrop to EOS token holders. Take a listen and learn more!
Links:
KARMA App
KARMA Telegram
Dallas Rushing Youtube
#10 Edgar Fernandez of EOS Costa Rica
Jun 12, 2018
Today we hear from our first Block Producer EOS Costa Rica! Enjoy!
Website URL: http://www.eoscostarica.io
Steemit: @eos-costarica
Twitter: @EOSCostaRica
Telegram: https://t.me/eoscr
#9 Thomas Cox on EOS Governance
Jun 02, 2018
This is a fascinating interview about the governance structure of EOS. Thomas Cox joins me to explain EOS arbitration, voting, the constitution and more!
Find Thomas Cox on Twitter @tbcox
#8 When is the EOS Launch? Here’s some clarity
Jun 02, 2018
There's a lot of confusion over the launch of the blockchain so this is a quick clarifier. Enjoy!
#7 Is EOS a SCAM??
May 31, 2018
A lot of people are saying that EOS is a scam. After just a short time in comment sections or twitter you will quickly come across this claim. And if you trust random people on the internet then you might actually start believing in it. It's really easy to focus on negative news or comments because that's just how our brains are wired. I've seen this claim so much lately that I thought I'd address it here.
In this podcast I want to go through the lazy man's guide to discerning whether or not EOS is a scam.
Let's start with Dan Larimer, the Chief Technology Officer of Block.One, the company that is building EOS. He is largely seen as the brains behind this project and the inventor of the technology. He previously built bitshares which was the first decentralized exchange back in 2014. On bitshares he created the first stable coin called bitUSD. Many people don't know much about these projects. They were very successful in the technical realm but seem to have been overlooked in the cryptomania of the last year.
Next he built Steemit which is a blockchain based social network that works sort of like reddit. However the users get paid for creating and curating content. This platform has nearly a million users and has an alexa rank of 1,335 which is pretty big.
How likely do you really think it is that someone who created two successful blockchain projects that were certainly not scams just woke up one day and said to himself now it's time to ruin my reputation and legacy and create a scam even though I'm already a multimillionaire from my previous projects. Seems unlikely to me.
Aristotle said that the appeal to authority is one of the weakest arguments. (See what I did there?) but nonetheless let's talk about other people and organizations that support EOS because many of these are putting themselves at great financial risk to support EOS.
ICO Alert is a very successful ICO rating website. Not only do they like EOS but the founder of ICO Alert, Rob Finch, started another company to become a Block Producer and they did a miniseries on their main ICO Alert Podcast called 'Everything EOS' where they talk about how great EOS is.
Next is Weiss ratings. This is a financial ratings company that recently got into rating crypto. They rated EOS in the top 7 of all cryptos and recently tweeted about how they thought EOS would 'Eat Ethereum's lunch'
#EOS (B) vs. #Ethereum (B-). At MainNet launch, EOS will process 600 transactions per second and then speed to thousands. Ethereum can only do 10. How long before EOS eats Ethereum’s lunch? #bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #btc #eth #altcoin #altcoins
— Weiss Ratings (@WeissRatings) May 30, 2018
Bancor is a blockchain project that is basically a decentralized exchange. They are planning to be a block producer on EOS and not only that but they are integrating the bancor protocol into EOS.
Bitfinex is one of biggest crypto exchanges. They announced that they plan to be a block producer and they plan to build a decentralized exchange as a dapp on EOS.
Huobi is another large crypto exchange that wants to be a block producer.
AntPool, a massive bitcoin mining pool. Let me said that again a massive BITCOIN mining pool is also hoping to become an EOS block producer.
Not to mention Everipedia, Ono and other dapps being built or migrated.
So there we have ratings organizations and other crypto companies all supporting EOS. But maybe they've all been fooled and Dan Larimer is really just very persuasive and convinced them all of his scam? Well... let's continue with investors.
There have been several multimillion dollar venture captial funds popping up that are committed to just investing in EOS-related projects. Yes, hundreds of millions in VC funding for EOS. Not crypto in general, but just focused on EOS!
That's just a mania, you might say, these people probably are just dumb money getting tricked by the cheap scam that is EOS. Well... Let's see who these people are.
#6 What I’m doing during launch week
May 31, 2018
Some quick thoughts on what I'm doing during launch week.
EOS Authority
EOS Countdown
#5 ONO Social Network on EOS with Leah Stephens
May 29, 2018
Leah Stephens - Head of International Operations for eosONO
Links:
https://www.ono.chat/en/
https://twitter.com/onosocial
English Telegram
ONO Virtual Bar Telegram
ONO Investors Telegram
Instagram
Facebook
White Paper
Steemit
#4: Register Your EOS Before it’s Too Late!
May 27, 2018
Just a quick episode today reminding everyone to register your EOS tokens before June 1st! If you do not register them you could lose all of your tokens and you could miss out on some airdrops.
When you buy bitcoin, you don't have to register those so we do we have to register EOS?
Well, the EOS token sale was done using the ethereum block chain. They created what's called an ERC-20 token that is really kind of a place holder and a funding mechanism for the company behind the EOS software, block.one. In other words, what you have now is not the REAL EOS token. It's a placeholder that will be 'swapped' for the real EOS token on the EOS blockchain once the blockchain launches at the beginning of June. That is why you need to register them because if you don't the EOS network will not know where to put your real EOS tokens.
Essentially what registering does is it creates an EOS wallet for the new blockchain and it links that wallet to your current ethereum wallet that holds your EOS tokens. That way when the blockchain is launched it will credit your EOS wallet with the same number of real EOS tokens as the number you have of the placeholder ERC-20 tokens.
For legal reasons they created this placeholder token but did not give any rights to token holders. This has caused a lot of skepticism making many people worry that they won't have any value. This is one reason I think EOS is great because there are a lot of people on the sidelines still waiting to ensure that the REAL EOS token materializes.
I believe it will materialize. If I didn't I wouldn't be doing this podcast.
So, what if you don't register? Well there's a chance that you can still get your real EOS tokens after, but at this time there is no real plan for making that happen. In other words, it's risky. You might be okay or you might lose all your tokens.
How do you register them? Well, trying to explain it on an audio podcast wouldn't work very well. So in the show notes over at exploringeos.com you can find several links that explain step by step how to do it. But for now I will go over the main options.
1 - Keep your tokens on an exchange that plans to support EOS. Binance, Kraken and Bitfinex have all said that they will support it so that if you keep your tokens there you will end up with the real EOS token in the end. Generally common crypto knowledge is that you shouldn't keep your crypto on an exchange because the exchange could be hacked and you could lose everything. So that's one strike against this method. A second strike is that these exchanges may or may not support the coming airdrops. I talked about the power of airdrops on EOS in the last episode. You should definitely check it out.
I can think of 2 reasons you would want to keep them on an exchange. First, if you're not very technical and don't want to try to figure out how to do it. Second, if you're hearing this last minute and really don't have time to figure it out.
2 - You can register your tokens without being all that technical using the exodus wallet. You can find that at exodus.io. This is a pretty easy way to do it. You can find a video on how to do this in the show notes at exploringeos.com You will have to be sure that you have a couple of dollars worth of ethereum in your exodus wallet in order to pay for the smart contract for registering the ERC20 Tokens. These placeholder tokens are on the ethereum platform which charges transaction fees. Yeah that's annoying. But remember once you get the real EOS tokens, no more transaction fees.
3 - You can register them in a more manual fashion using something like Meta mask. This is a more technical route. So be sure you head over and check out the links at exploringeos.com for a step by step guide. You will need ethereum to pay for the smart contract doing it this way too.
So there you go. Be sure you get this done ASAP so that you can get your EOS tokens when the blockchain launches at the beginning of June.
#3: The Extraordinary Power of Airdops on EOS
May 24, 2018
When I first heard about airdrops I thought, 'hey that's cool, I get free tokens' I didn't think much more about it until I told a friend about it. He said 'Why would they give away free tokens? That doesn't make sense they won't be worth anything.'
You see, an airdrop, is when a company or dapp just gives away a portion of their tokens for free to the token holders of an underlying blockchain. Normally this happens on ethereum and usually it's done by company that is building their dapps on top of ethereum.
Sometimes it's done by sending free tokens to everyone who holds ethereum. Sometimes you have to both hold ethereum and register in some way. Some airdrops use this as a way to get you to share their project by requiring social shares or they use it to build their email list by getting you to sign up with your email.
After a while I started to think that really these airdrops are just a marketing gimmick and maybe my friend was right. They won't be worth a thing. From then on I kind of just ignored airdrop news that I heard.
However, I recently started to change my mind. Especially when it comes to EOS.
There are a lot of dapps coming to EOS that plan to do airdrops. Everipedia is the most notable right now. Check out episode 2 of this podcast to hear more about that.
Here's what changed my mind about airdrops.
Block One is giving $1 Billion to Venture Capital firms to fund EOS based dapp startups. Many of these dapps will have tokens. But they won't need to raise money because they will have gotten millions in startup funding from these VCs. Step back, take a moment and think about this. Eventually, this hit me like a ton of bricks!
The monetization model of these dapps is to airdrop tokens and provide value with their platform which requires tokens to run. That will create demand for the tokens and therefore a price. When they do the airdrop, however, they will reserve a portion of the tokens for themselves. That right there is where they make their money.
Let's talk about an example:
Let's say a dapp gets $30,000,000 in VC funding and they do an airdrop with 1,000,000,000 tokens. But they keep 10%, or 100,000,000 tokens for themselves. Their dapp can then take off in two different ways.
1 - People could speculate on the price of the tokens and drive up the price before the dapp actually gets much adoption. The dapp creators could then sell off their tokens and it's pure profit. Or, more likely...
2 - The dapp gains popularity and is used widely enough that the demand for tokens grows and is stable. dapp creators and their investors can sell their tokens for a profit.
Actually, it will probably be a combination of the two.
But let's just say that the token becomes worth $0.80 and is relatively stable there. That means that the dapp creators and investors now make $80 Million which is a $50 Million dollar gain.
But, someone might say, why would the token actually gain a price of $0.80 without doing and ICO?
Think back to bitcoin. Bitcoin never had an ICO. It started out and people were literally just giving it away to try to get the word out. I remember using so-called 'bitcoin faucets' back when I first heard about bitcoin. A faucet would be a page where you enter your wallet address and they would give you something like 0.1 btc just because. Of course, most of them also had ads on the site.
Why couldn't this also happen with airdrop tokens? Airdrops are essentially massive token faucets.
There's one last point that helped me see the huge power of airdrops. I started to see more and more ICO's getting cease and desist letters from the SEC. You see, doing an ICO is politically risky because of the regulations involved. It requires a lot of legal fees to do it right.
Doing it legally also limits your token holders to wealthy individuals who are just trying to speculate on the price and not planning to actually use your application.
Raising funding from VCs,
#2: Everything Everipedia, EOS, Airdrop and more with co-founder Mahbod Moghadam
May 23, 2018
Join us to learn about Everipedia an important app being built on the EOS blockchain. Get your EOS registered before June 1st!
Related Links:
Mahbod Moghadam's Everipedia
Everipedia.org
@mahbodmoghadam
The Everipedia page for ExploringEOS!
#1: Why I Love EOS and want to explore it with you
May 19, 2018
Exploring EOS is a podcast all about the EOS project. Today I’d like to tell you just a little bit about why I think EOS is fascinating and why I’m starting a podcast to explore it with you.
EOS is a cryptocurrency, sometimes referred to as an alt-coin, but it is so much more than just that. It is thought of as Ethereum on Steroids.
Ethereum is the #2 marketcap cryptocurrency and with good reason. It allows distributed applications to run on top of the ethereum network. This decentralized network acts as a ‘virtual machine’ and actually provides the computational resources to run applications. It’s a pretty revolutionary concept.
However, ethereum has some fatal flaws. These issues are being worked on but I’m not hopeful that they will be completely solved anytime soon.
It has become more centralized than many would like. While there are many miners, most of them are concentrated within a handful of mining pools which means that just a few entities control the majority of the network.
EOS has an answer to this. Instead of anonymous miners, EOS uses known block producers who compete for 21 block producer spots. Having 21 set spots sounds somewhat centralized but it’s actually less centralized than both ethereum and bitcoin in practice. These block producers are voted in or voted out by people who hold the EOS tokens.
I’m generally not a huge fan of elections as they are really just popularity contests. But EOS does their voting in a way that is significantly improved over what most governments do.
Power consumption is a problem as well. This is something that ethereum is working on. They are trying to move from proof of work, which is very power intensive, to proof of stake which is less so. However, the fact remains that bitcoin and ethereum are both using tons of electricity. Those are resources that could be used in a different, better way.
Scaleability is probably the most important reason I like EOS over other projects. Ethereum can only process something like 10–20 transactions per second. Bitcoin is even worse. Both ethereum and bitcoin are working on this but it’s hard to see a great solution to the problem within the frameworks they are using.
EOS is launching right out of the gate with 1,000–6,000 TPS! This is much faster and would be able to handle the capacity of paypal no problem. Not only that but the EOS team says that they should be able to get up to 10s of thousands or even millions of TPS in the future.
Another huge reason I like EOS is that it just seems like they keep getting good news and they keep demonstrating that they know what they are doing.
For example, they have partnered with venture capital firms to help invest in distributed applications to be built on EOS. They have even committed over 1 Billion dollars to help fund dApps!
So not only is the project itself very well funded but they are funding other projects to ensure that EOS gains more widespread adoption.
There are several dApps that are going to be ready to launch right away and we just heard that the CFO of a large Australian bank has decided to leave his job to join block.one.
Developers are coming in. Money is coming into the EOS ecosystem and talent is coming in too. This all bodes very well for EOS.
Why the podcast?
As I learned more about EOS I started to look for podcasts on the subject. Podcasts are my favorite way to learn. However, there was only one EOS podcast and their format wasn’t really to my liking.
So this podcast is a way for me to learn and explore EOS and you are invited along for the ride!