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Chris Zaknun and Hatu Sheikh of DAO Maker Talks About Social Mining - Ep. 17 Aug 12, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Chris Zaknun, CEO of DAO Maker and Hatu Sheikh, CMO of DAO Maker. Bobby interviewed Chris and Hatu on DYCO, what it does, social mining, their thoughts on the market, and yield farming as well as DAO Maker’s plans for 2020 and beyond.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:42] What is DYCO?
[00:10:29] Amount raised in ICO market
[00:12:17] Thoughts on IEOs
[00:16:44] Social mining
[00:18:16] Thoughts on the market in 2020 and 2021
[00:25:15] Thoughts on yield farming fad
[00:31:53] DAO Maker’s plans for 2020 and beyond

Quotes from the episode:

“Now we have a lot of IEOs and so on but these things do not sustain. At the moment we have a hype, right? So everybody invests. Once this hype is over the whole thing will collapse again. The DYCO is designed to be a system that can work long term no matter the market conditions.” [00:03:16]

“Now there's a saying, a famous saying, like you can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time, which means you can maybe pump up a coin for three months and keep the price stable by doing marketing and hoax and bullshit, which we see a lot in crypto, but you cannot do that for 12 or 16 months.” [00:06:32]

“The social mining started off as the idea of how can we make people more bonded to these clients and stop making them jump from coin A to coin B to coin C because this is a never ending cycle.” [00:17:47]
Links
DAO Maker - https://daomaker.com/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/
DYCO - https://daomaker.com/dyco
Social Media
DAO Maker:
https://twitter.com/thedaomaker
https://t.me/daomaker

CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko

Decentralized Oracles with Nick Fett and Michael Zemrose of Tellor - Ep. 16 Aug 07, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Nick Fett, CTO at Tellor and Michael Zemrose, CSO of Tellor. Bobby interviewed Nick and Michael on the Tellor oracle, how it works, the utility behind Tellor Tributes, as well as Tellor’s upgrades in V2.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:20] Background on Tellor
[00:03:59] The main difference between Tellor and Chainlink
[00:05:19] How does Tellor work?
[00:12:44] Tellor’s upgrades in V2
[00:18:55] Who’s using the Tellor oracles?
[00:21:03] The main utility behind Tellor Tributes (TRB)
[00:25:40] Attack risk on Tellor
[00:33:42] Where to follow Tellor

Quotes from Episode:

“I don't think Chainlink is going to be able to achieve that type of quality going about things the way they are using white-listed data providers like they do. And so that's a huge difference. Like with Tellor, we focus on that Bitcoin style quality where decentralized is our number one priority and censorship-resistance is our number one priority. So you know, in a nutshell we feel that we're the decentralized option between the two.” [00:04:49]

“The problem is, is that, you know, at Coinbase for instance, they just started an oracle service where they sign the price every so often and you can grab it and say, 'Hey, this was the price at Coinbase.' The problem with that is Coinbase can at any point stop doing that. There's no guarantee that they will continue to do that.” [00:07:42]

“Now you have to stake a 1,000 TRB and you can only mine one value per hour. And the reason that we're moving to that is, any sort of minor centralization can sort of be, if you want to own 90% of our hash power, you're going to have to own a whole lot of our token as well.” [00:15:25]

Links

Tellor - https://tellor.io/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/
Tellor (TRB) on CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tellor

Social Media

Tellor:
https://twitter.com/wearetellor
https://t.me/tellor
https://discord.gg/n7drGjh
CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko

Getting Enterprises to use Blockchain with Ivan of LTO Network - Ep. 15 Jul 29, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Ivan, Chief Marketing Officer at LTO Network. Bobby interviewed Ivan on LTO Network, the LTO Network Token, the fee burn mechanism proposal as well as the staking program for LTO Network. Bobby and Ivan also shared their thoughts on DeFi and Yield-farming.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:15] Background on LTO Network
[00:05:30] How permissioned blockchain is built into LTO Network?
[00:08:09] Why use LTO Network?
[00:17:50] The tokenomics behind LTO Network
[00:20:41] How does the staking program in LTO Network work?
[00:25:36] How to be a staker?
[00:26:39] Fee burn mechanism
[00:30:37] Thoughts on difference in PE ratio between tokens
[00:36:12] Yield farming
[00:41:31] Where to follow LTO Network?

Quotes from Episode:

“So if you do it on Bitcoin, you're pretty limited to just anchoring. While the Delta network, we build the architecture in such a way that there are different modules that you can plug in and plug out at the same time but in an open environment.” [00:10:20]

“And how to lease it to delegator? Literally one button. So you just have it in your mainnet wallet, you press 'lease', and you press the address of the delegator, that's it.” [00:26:09]

“Let's start with the fact that crypto is still only an investor base and there are very few users who use. So everything people touch and do, is their belief in the future of one or the other product. Therefore, the revenue has always been not a topic in crypto because they were just not.” [00:31:14]
Links

LTO Network - https://www.ltonetwork.com/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/
LTO Network (LTO) on CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/lto-network

Social Media

LTO Network:
https://twitter.com/ltonetwork
https://t.me/ltonetwork

CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko

Ciara Sun of Huobi talks about the Huobi Ecosystem - Ep. 14 Jul 16, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Ciara Sun, Head of Global Business and Markets, Vice President at Huobi. Bobby interviewed Ciara on Huobi exchange, its role in developing the blockchain industry, thoughts on wash trading, as well as Huobi’s strategy and plans for growth.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:03:26] Background on Huobi
[00:05:40] Thoughts on exchanges doing wash trading
[00:11:22] Plans and use cases for Huobi Chain
[00:13:50] Use cases for Huobi Token
[00:15:50] Thoughts on Huobi Pool
[00:18:54] Plans with Huobi’s derivative market, Huobi Futures
[00:21:27] Thoughts on IEO market
[00:23:24] Where to follow Huobi
Quotes from Episode:

“We don't fake our trading volume. When you operate an exchange, it's actually easy to tell whether the other exchanges are faking their volume or not.” [00:06:16]

“We're very proud to say that at Huobi, we've been running for seven years and there has never been a major security breach. Customers' assets have been safe with us.” [00:09:43]

“Huobi Chain is the first blockchain to support regulator nodes and let regulators contribute to the network as validators. This chain will also support decentralized identifiers, such as KYC verification to meet our requirements.” [00:13:04]
Links

Huobi - https://www.huobi.com/
Huobi Pool - https://www.huobipool.com/
Huobi Futures - https://www.hbdm.com/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/

Social Media

Huobi: https://twitter.com/HuobiGlobal
Ciara Sun: https://twitter.com/ciarahuobi

CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko

Running a Regulated Crypto Exchange in Japan with Seth Melamed, COO at Liquid - Ep. 13 Jun 26, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Seth Melamed, COO at Liquid Exchange. Bobby interviewed Seth on Liquid exchange, blockchain industry and crypto exchange landscape in Japan, their token QASH, as well as Liquid’s plan in 2020 and beyond.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:03:44] Background on Liquid Exchange
[00:06:31] Thoughts on operating in a regulated blockchain space in Japan
[00:04:50] What is Liquid’s focus?
[00:16:42] Utility and plans for QASH
[00:21:04] Thoughts on exchanges doing wash trading
[00:24:34] Differences between Bitcoin CFD and Bitcoin Perpetual Swaps
[00:27:39] Leverage trading offered by Liquid
[00:31:23] Liquid’s plan in 2020 and beyond
[00:35:30] Where to follow Liquid

Quotes from Episode:

“We think that we have a very special situation here at Liquid that we're really the only exchange in Japan serving both the global markets, as well as the Japanese market.” [00:15:13]

“Today when you use QASH as a method of paying the trade fees, you get 50% off the trade fees from trading on Liquid.” [00:17:03]

“We basically have a zero tolerance policy for wash trading. When it happens, we find out about it. We warn people. And if we see the behavior, we make it very difficult for them to continue the behavior, and that can include banning their accounts up to seizing assets if we see it happening.” [00:21:44]
Links

Liquid - https://www.liquid.com/
Liquid Blog - https://blog.liquid.com/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/

Social Media

Liquid:
https://twitter.com/liquid_global

CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko

Scaling Blockchains on Layer 0 with Professor Kuzmanovic of bloXroute - Ep. 12 May 28, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Professor Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Co-Founder & Chief Architect of bloXroute. Bobby interviewed Professor Kuzmanovic on what is bloXroute and Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN), the BLXR token, as well as bloXroute’s plans in 2020 and beyond.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:23] What is bloXroute and why is it important?
[00:02:53] Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) vs Content Distribution Network (CDN)
[00:09:28] Transactions Per Second (TPS) that can be achieved by bloXroute
[00:13:04] How to connect with bloXroute and send transactions?
[00:18:14] Centralization risk
[00:21:41] Thoughts on Layer 1 and Layer 2 scaling solution
[00:23:39] Does bloXroute support the Bitcoin blockchain?
[00:24:55] BLXR token model
[00:29:46] bloXroute’s plans in 2020 and beyond
[00:31:30] Where to follow bloXroute

Quotes from Episode:

“When the block is sent in the blockchain system, instead of sending the original ,we utilize these shorter identifier. And hence for every transaction that is 500 bytes long, we send just four bytes.” [00:06:43]

“On Ethereum, we did some tests internally on the testnet and we are capable of pushing, I think, close to 1000 or so transactions per second” [00:10:06]

“Think of bloXroute as just like improving the existing peer-to-peer network without getting rid of the peer-to-peer network itself.” [00:19:02]

Links

bloXroute - https://bloxroute.com/
bloXroute Blockchain Distribution Network - https://bloxroute.com/products/
Installation - https://bloxroute.com/docs/bloxroute-documentation/installation/installation/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/

Social Media

bloXroute:
https://twitter.com/bloXrouteLabs
https://medium.com/bloxroute

CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko

CoinGecko Meetup #2 - Thoughts on the Upcoming Bitcoin Halvening May 18, 2020

Show notes

In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Alejandro De La Torre, Vice President of Poolin, Edward Evenson, Director of Business Development at SlushPool, and Koji Higashi, Founder of Koinup for CoinGecko's Second Virtual Meetup that took place on 8th of May 2020. Bobby interviewed Alejandro, Edward and Koji about the third bitcoin halving that happened on the 11 May 2020.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:20] Introduction of the guests
[00:04:45] Thoughts on Bitcoin halving
[00:07:39] The most efficient mining equipments
[00:11:26] Thoughts on Binance Pool
[00:15:23] Why does China have such a strong dominance in the Bitcoin mining industry?
[00:19:45] What will happen after the halving?
[00:25:03] The average cost of mining a Bitcoin
[00:28:09] Differences between Lightning and Liquid Network
[00:34:36] Tokenization on top of Bitcoin

Quotes from the Episode

“For those who don't know, the Antminer S9 is the most successful mining ASIC out there. You can kind of think of it like the AK 47 of mining machines. It doesn't quit. It's pretty resilient.” [00:06:30]

“Some people disagree with the term 'inflation' because technically, Bitcoin already exists. It's just kind of like being released.” [00:07:00]

“I'm gonna say many mining pools are affected because the manufacturers are all based in China and there's a lot of miners and mining farms in China. So what's been happening is that these machines are too costly to stand out because the whole logistic prices skyrocketed because of Corona.” [00:18:22]

Building a Highly Scalable Blockchain with Beniamin Mincu, CEO of Elrond - Ep. 11 May 04, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Beniamin Mincu, CEO of Elrond. Bobby interviewed Beniamin on what Elrond is, why it is important, its token model, as well as its plan for the future.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:20] What is Elrond and why is it important?
[00:04:05] Adaptive State Sharding Technology and Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS) consensus
[00:15:09] What will be the “killers application” for Elrond?
[00:18:05] How many shards will there be in Elrond?
[00:21:20] How does the token model for ERD token work?
[00:26:20] How to stake on Elrond?
[00:31:40] Thoughts and experience going through Binance Launchpad and the IEO
[00:35:15] Plans for Elrond
[00:41:15] Where to follow Elrond

Quotes from the Episode

“I believe and predict that probably during the next 10 years, we will see that blockchain will probably become the most important GDP multiplier since the Internet.” [00:03:27]

“What we are trying to do with Elrond is exactly what I was saying at the beginning - bring the same transition that we saw in the early days of the Internet to the Blockchain space.” [00:12:45]

“I see that payments and money are probably the most important things that we will have adoption during the next 6 to 12 months. This is the thing we are putting all our focus on.” [00:17:35]

Links

Elrond - https://elrond.com/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/
Elrond (ERD) on CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/elrond

Social Media

Elrond:
https://twitter.com/elrondnetwork
https://t.me/ElrondNetwork

CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko

Dr. Omri Ross Shares His Thoughts on the Future of Finance - Ep. 10 Apr 21, 2020

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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Dr. Omri Ross, Chief Blockchain Scientist at eToro. Bobby interviewed Dr. Omri Ross on his story joining the eToro team, his thoughts on Ethereum, blockchain and the future of finance, Bancor whitepaper, as well as his works academically.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:17] Dr. Omri Ross’ personal story
[00:04:25] How has things changed since Colored Coins days?
[00:07:56] Thoughts on how to improve Ethereum’s scalability
[00:11:35] Thoughts on how regulators regulate blockchain
[00:14:10] Thoughts on how blockchain would change the future of finance
[00:19:25] About Bancor whitepaper
[00:25:50] Dr. Omri Ross’ work with the Financial Transparency Group
[00:31:25] Dr. Omri Ross’ research at the university
[00:37:50] Where to follow Dr. Omri Ross

Quotes from the episode:

“I think Ethereum is a good start and it's an amazing platform, and I'm a huge fan. But I think we need to see a lot of scalability within this ecosystem to be able to really predict who will be the winner in the long term.” [00:07:25]

“In the end, regulations are supposed to really look at the interests of everyone and every actor in the society.” [00:12:45]

“What brought me real full time to blockchain is that understanding that, I totally believe that blockchain will become sort of the rails for financial services are going to build up.” [00:14:15]

Links
Financial Transparency Group - https://rossomri.github.io/Financial-Transparency-Group.github.io/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/omriross
Twitter - https://twitter.com/omriuk

Research Papers:

https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2897788
https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3015219
https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3488344
https://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=aevQE00AAAAJ&hl=en

Steven McKie on Why We need to Decentralize the Domain Name System - Ep. 9 Apr 08, 2020

Show notes

In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Steven McKie, Founding Partner and CEO of Amentum Investment Management. Bobby interviewed Steven on the story behind Handshake, its structure, as well as its plans for Handshake in the next few years.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:15] What is Handshake?
[00:09:00] Handshake’s structure
[00:14:20] How is Handshake different from Namecoin?
[00:18:24] How does Handshake compare against .crypto and .eth?
[00:23:40] How will Handshake TLD work if there is collission?
[00:27:45] Handshake’s plans to work with browsers
[00:34:00] Stats on domain name auction
[00:40:35] Where to follow Handshake?

Quotes from the episode:

“We're just focused on doing one thing, doing it really well and making it scaleable enough to handle that use case and to be able to just out of the gate have something for people to actually use that could be integrated in a multiple different aspects and with different purity trade off.” [00:05:15]

“So whether it’s Chinese, whether it's in English, whether it's in Spanish, whether it's Russian, no matter the translation, you can register that name on the blockchain, and we will recognize that character as your unique TLD.” [00:25:05]

“Handshake has grown pretty quickly. So I say you give it another two or three months, we'll probably see a handful of different ways that you can quickly get up and running with Handshake,” [00:33:20]
Links
Handshake - https://handshake.org/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/
Handshake (HNS) on CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/handshake
Handshake Explorer - https://hnscan.com/
Handshake Exchange - https://www.namebase.io/
DNS.live - https://dns.live/
HSD Tools - https://hsd.tools/auctions
Social Media
Twitter - https://twitter.com/hns
Telegram - https://t.me/handshaketalk and https://t.me/handshake_hns

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