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Is the Metaverse Already Here? Two Experts Disagree - Ep.282 Oct 19, 2021

Show notes

Andrew Steinwold, managing partner at Sfermion, and John Egan, CEO at L'Atelier BNP Paribas, discuss NFTs and debate the characteristics of the metaverse. Show highlights:

their backgrounds and how they got into NFTs
how they each define the metaverse
what NFTs have to do with the metaverse
how John and Andrew’s depiction of the metaverse differs
what John thinks about Facebook’s entrance into the metaverse
whether Second Life is a metaverse game
how blockchain technology allows for an open metaverse (and why Web2 is “communist”)
what NFTs currently unlock for the metaverse
whether the metaverse will necessarily have to be experienced through augmented reality
whether there will be multiple metaverses across different blockchain platforms
why John thinks NFT maxis and crypto maxis are destined to clash
how the metaverse is changing how people generate income
how to make the metaverse more accessible
whether regulators will force the metaverse to be siloed
how the metaverse will handle jurisdictional disputes
what happens when someone’s Web3 avatar/identity is stolen in the metaverse
what John and Andrew predict will happen in the metaverse over the next 6-12 months.

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NFT Research

John Egan

Twitter:
- https://twitter.com/iamjohnegan
Website:
- https://www.iamjohnegan.com/
LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndegan/
Content
- NFTs are like gambling, but could be the bedrock of virtual economy
- - https://decrypt.co/62809/buying-nfts-like-gambling-in-a-casino-analyst
- Wired article on NFTs
- - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/crypto-tokens

L’Atelier

NFT Content
- How NFTs are changing ownership
- - https://atelier.net/insights/nfts-art-ownership-collecting
- The Virtual economy
- - https://atelier.net/virtual-economy
- Real estate NFTs
- - https://atelier.net/insights/tech-real-estate-nfts-tokenisation
Metaverse Content
- Unified coms vs. the Metaverse
- - https://atelier.net/insights/unified-communications-metaverse-tech
- Primer on the metaverse
- - https://atelier.net/insights/primer-define-metaverse-fortnite
- Digital anthropology
- - https://atelier.net/insights/nathalie-bechet-digital-anthropology

Andrew Steinwold

Twitter
- https://twitter.com/AndrewSteinwold
LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-steinwold/
Blog must-reads
- A quick overview of the NFT ecosystem
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-quick-overview-of-the-nft-ecosystem
- NFTs will introduce the world to crypto?
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/nfts-will-introduce-crypto-to-the
- Why functional NFTs will gain value slower than crypto art
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-the-promise-effect-why-functional
- History of NFTs
- - https://medium.com/@Andrew.Steinwold/the-history-of-non-fungible-tokens-nfts-f362ca57ae10
- NFT Value Drivers
- - https://andrewsteinwold.substack.com/p/-nonfungible-token-nft-value-drivers

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Unconfirmed: What Is the Role of Investors in a Decentralized World? - Ep.281 Oct 15, 2021

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Four investors talk about the decentralized web, explain how the crypto industry is improving upon Web 2, and discuss what can be done to increase diversity and financial inclusion within Web 3. Featuring Rik Willard, founder of Agentic Group, Thomas France, co-founder of Cygni Capital, Dylan Hixon, president of Arden Road Investments, and Nick Grossman,general partner at Union Square Ventures . Show highlights:

how funding rounds for decentralized protocols differ from investing in traditional companies
what VC investors can do to 1) participate in the protocols they invest in, and 2) not take advantage of whale holdings in governance voting
how Web 3 has the potential to displace the “plantation economy”
the difference between crypto idealism (i.e., banking the unbanked) versus what has actually played out (i.e., Salvadorans being mandated to accept BTC)
what area of blockchain is delivering on the promise of financial inclusion
how to bring diversity to the blockchain + crypto industry
what can be done to solve the gender imbalance in crypto
how investors are navigating the murky waters of US regulations regarding crypto projects
how institutions fit into the Web 3 landscape
what I think about the state of sexism within the crypto industry

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Episode Links

Original Link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8884996/video/614236078

Rik Willard

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rik_willard?lang=en
Agentic Group: https://www.agenticgroup.com/

Nick Grossman

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickgrossman?lang=en
Website: https://www.nickgrossman.xyz/
Union Square Ventures: https://twitter.com/usv

Dylan Hixon

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-hixon-1887803
Arden Road Investments: https://www.ardenrd.com/

Thomas France

Twitter: https://twitter.com/totofrance?lang=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasfrance/

Topics mentioned

Fereshteh Forough on Unchained
https://unchainedpodcast.com/crypto-actually-fixes-this-how-code-to-inspire-uses-crypto-in-afghanistan/
Discussing crypto’s gender disparity on Unchained
https://unchainedpodcast.com/cryptos-gender-disparity-what-can-be-done-about-it-4-women-weigh-in/
she256
https://she256.org/
El Salvador and BTC
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/24/why-el-salvador-is-botching-its-bitcoin-experiment/

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Visa Is Building Infrastructure for NFTs, Smart Contracts, and L2s. Why? - Ep.280 Oct 12, 2021

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Cuy Sheffield, Visa’s head of crypto, discusses Visa’s crypto game plan, stablecoin regulation, NFTs, and more. Show highlights:

Cuy’s background and his journey down the crypto rabbit hole
how Visa and cryptocurrency can coexist
why crypto companies and fintech companies are similar
what Visa is trying to solve for consumers regarding cryptocurrencies
how cross-chain payment infrastructure would work
why Visa requires enhanced diligence for crypto companies
what countries can learn from stablecoins when building CBDCs
why Visa is creating a universal payment channel for CBDCs and other cryptocurrencies
why Visa chose USDC to begin making payments with
the two main reasons why stablecoins are used (hint: it’s not for buying cups of coffee)
how cryptocurrency is changing financial education and inclusion
how crypto’s open-source ethos is helping underserved and emerging markets build financial infrastructure
why NFTs are Cuy’s favorite topic
how NFTs level the playing field for black artists (and artists in general)
why Visa purchased a CryptoPunk and how other businesses could leverage NFTs

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Cuy Sheffield

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cuysheffield
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cuy-sheffield-72082126/
NFT collection: https://tryshowtime.com/csheffield

Content:

Medium
- https://medium.com/@cuysheffield
Tweets
- Thoughts on payroll deposits
- - https://twitter.com/cuysheffield/status/1442571326447767554
- DAOs as chaotic organizations
- - https://twitter.com/cuysheffield/status/1441536551016534019

Visa Crypto Plays

CryptoPunk purchase
- https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog/bdp/2021/08/18/nfts-mark-a-1629328216374.html
First smart contract on Ropsten
- https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0xadb1f7e78a3ac3d0a006961f95d96bbb0ec14326#code
NFT research report
- https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/regional/na/us/Solutions/documents/visa-nft-whitepaper.pdf
Cross-chain Interoperability
- https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog/bdp/2021/09/29/making-digital-currency-1632954547520.html
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.12194v2.pdf

Visa + USDC

Digital currency whitepaper
- https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/regional/na/us/Solutions/documents/visa-digital-currency-overview.pdf

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Unconfirmed: Why It Doesn’t Make Sense to Compare Lightning to DeFi - Ep.279 Oct 08, 2021

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Ryan Gentry, business development lead at Lightning Labs, discusses the latest updates on the Lightning Network, the layer 2 solution for Bitcoin. Highlights:

how Lightning Network is bringing Bitcoin to the masses through partnerships with Twitter, Substack, and Paxful
what the significance of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin means for the Lightning Network
how many nodes are running Lightning Network nodes
why the capacity on the Lightning Network has grown rapidly
how Ryan has seen interest in Lightning has changed since the El Salvador announcement earlier this year
what stage of adoption Ryan thinks the Lightning Network is
why Lightning Network total-value-locked should not be compared to Ethereum L2s or other DeFi protocols
how Lightning Network differs from DeFi
what metric Ryan believes is the best way to measure adoption on Lightning Network
how El Salvador has changed the types of transactions being made on Lightning Network
what’s next for Lightning Network and how Lightning micropayments could affect how podcasts (like Unchained!) are distributed

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Ryan Gentry

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanthegentry

The Summer of Lightning: Reaching the Tipping Point

https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-lightning-reaching

Lightning Labs

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightning
Website: https://lightning.engineering/

Lightning Enabled Tips

Paxful Integration

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/paxful-integrates-bitcoin-lightning-network

Arcane Research Paper

Lightning Network stats

Lightning Network Resources

https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html

Preston Pysh episode with BTC Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bBJjVEg1U

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How the Greatest Decentralizing Force for Crypto Projects Is the SEC - Ep.278 Oct 05, 2021

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How does the SEC determine if a token is a security? Why is DeFi particularly hard to regulate? What will regulators do about stablecoins? On Unchained, Greg Xethalis, chief compliance officer at Multicoin Capital, and Collins Belton, founding partner at Brookwood P.C., dive into crypto regulation, discussing securities laws, DeFi regulation, and why the US should be promoting stablecoins rather than trying to shut them down. Highlights:

why the SEC and CFTC have not announced bigger crypto enforcement news at the end of their fiscal years
why the SEC is going after DINO (decentralized in name only) companies
what the Howey and Reves tests areand how the SEC uses themto determine whether an asset is a security or not
why Collins and Greg think the SEC has recently begun been applying Reves more often
why they think centralized crypto lending products should not be considered securities under the Howey test
whether new legislation needs to be written for cryptocurrency-based products
what makes Collins think the SEC is being “disingenuous” regarding the SEC registration process for crypto companies, like Coinbase
how regulators will end up handling DeFi and why both Greg and Collins are long-term optimistic
how the US government has a “great history” of respecting privacy and encryption
why regulatory pressure is likely to build up around centralized crypto exchanges and what we can learn from the EtherDelta case
why Collins thinks most cryptocurrency companies should be regulated
why the SEC is the best motivator for forcing protocols to fully decentralize
how smart contracts could theoretically be used to standardize SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s Safe Harbor proposal
how blockchain data makes cryptocurrency companies more transparent and easier to regulate than centralized entities
what Collins and Greg think will happen with stablecoin regulation going forward
why the US should be pushing to make dollar-pegged stablecoins more prominent

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Greg Xethalis

Twitter: https://twitter.com/xethalis
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xethalis/

Collins Belton

Twitter: https://twitter.com/collins_belton
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-belton-10226283/

Cases Mentioned

-uniswap-labs-investigation-could-signal-a-new-era-of-enforcement

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Unconfirmed: People Expected a Big SEC Enforcement Action This Week. What Happened? Days - Ep.277 Oct 01, 2021

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Stephen Palley, partner at Anderson Kill, discusses a few hot-button crypto regulatory issues like lending products, whether DeFi protocols fall under the SEC’s purview, and more. Show highlights:

why Stephen thinks the SEC and CFTC did not announce more extensive crypto enforcement news this week
what areas the SEC Chair Gary Gensler and the SEC as a whole are focused on regulating
what Stephen has heard about whether stablecoins that are not fully-backed are securities
why Coinbase decided to drop its Lend product
why Stephen is skeptical that decentralized protocols should be regulated under existing securities laws
how securities law is contrary to consumer protection in light of DeFi protocols and airdrops
why DeFi AMMs should be regulated differently than centralized market books
whether companies running a front-end for a DeFi protocol should be considered an exchange
why crypto devs are “going Satoshi” because of US securities laws

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Stephen Palley

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephendpalley
Unchained podcast appearance speaking about Ripple: https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-secs-lawsuit-against-ripple-and-2-execs-what-you-need-to-know/

Topics Covered

Lending Products

Coinbase blogs regarding Lend
- https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-sue-us-over-lend-we-have-no-idea-why-a3a1b6507009
- https://blog.coinbase.com/sign-up-to-earn-4-apy-on-usd-coin-with-coinbase-cdad79e5f5eb
Lend overview: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-september-to-remember-coinbase-avoids-7608131/

Brian Armstrong angry tweet storm
- https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1435439291715358721
BlockFi and Celsius overview
- https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/17/3-states-alabama-securities-commission-also-claims-celsius-violated-securities-laws/

SEC + Gary Gensler

How SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s Views on Crypto Have Changed Since His MIT Days
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-sec-chair-gary-genslers-views-on-crypto-have-changed-since-his-mit-days/
SEC Chair Gary Gensler Washington Post Q&A
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/09/21/transcript-path-forward-cryptocurrency-with-gary-gensler/
Gary Gensler + Elizabeth Warren letters
- https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-releases-response-from-sec-chair-gensler-affirming-need-to-regulate-cryptocurrency-exchanges-and-protect-investors-and-our-financial-system

Other

Uniswap delisting certain tokens through its front end
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/112399/uniswap-labs-culls-synthetic-stock-and-derivatives-citing-evolving-regulatory-landscape

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Crypto Actually Fixes This: How Code to Inspire Uses Crypto in Afghanistan - Ep.276 Sep 28, 2021

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Fereshteh Forough is the founder and CEO of Code to Inspire, a coding school for girls in Afghanistan. She discusses her background as a refugee, how she uses crypto to fund the school and pay students, and how the US military’s departure has affected student life. Topics include:

Fereshteh’s journey from refugee to computer science professor to founder and CEO of Code to Inspire
what Code to Inspire offers to young Afghan women and what risks they take by getting an education
how Code to Inspire success stories are changing the attitudes of student’s families and communities
the importance of Afghan Hero Girl, a video game created by Code to Inspire students
why crypto payments are a better alternative to PayPal and Western Union for Code to Inspire and its students
how Code to Inspire and its students exchange crypto to fiat
what the perception of crypto is in Afghanistan
how the Taliban is stifling the education of women and how Code to Inspire is attempting to continue its curriculum
how crypto companies can offer assistance to Code to Inspire
what features and products Fereshteh thinks would the crypto industry actually bank the unbanked
how listeners can help Code to Inspire and where to find more information on Fereshteh

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Episode Links

Fereshteh Forough

Twitter: https://twitter.com/f_forough
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fereshtehforough/

Code to Inspire

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codetoinspire/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodeToInspire
Website: https://www.codetoinspire.org/
Donating crypto: https://www.codetoinspire.org/donate-crypto/
Services offered:
- https://www.codetoinspire.org/hire-a-cti-graduate/

Code to Inspire Coverage

Forbes
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2021/08/17/taliban-resurgence-could-threaten-afghan-school-teaching-women-to-code-and-build-ethereum-apps/?sh=465a8208197d
The Giving Block
- https://thegivingblock.com/donate/Code-to-Inspire/
Code to Inspire students are coding at home
- https://cointelegraph.com/news/amid-taliban-takeover-aspiring-crypto-miner-flees-afghanistan
CoinDesk on Code to Inspire + ETH
- https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2018/06/12/forget-prices-ethereum-is-offering-a-different-value-in-afghanistan/
Coinbase
- https://blog.coinbase.com/fereshteh-forough-interview-1e73a684788f
Inverse
- https://www.inverse.com/innovation/57129-fereshteh-forough-afghanistan-bitcoin
Afghan Hero Girls
- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-19-code-to-inspire-is-creating-afghan-hero-girls-through-education

US Military leaving Afghanistan

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Unconfirmed: How SEC Chair Gary Gensler's Views on Crypto Have Changed Since His MIT Days - Ep.275 Sep 24, 2021

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Nik De, managing editor for global policy and regulation at CoinDesk, stops by Unconfirmed to discuss the current state of crypto regulation, including recent comments by SEC Chair Gary Gensler on stablecoins and why Coinbase decided to sideline its Lend product. Highlights:

Nik’s biggest takeaway from Gary Gensler’s interview with the Washington Post
why Nik thinks Gensler has escalated his rhetoric regarding stablecoins and DeFi
how crypto exchanges are currently regulated and how that might change
what it would take to convince crypto exchanges to register with the SEC
whether the SEC has the purview to regulate stablecoins
Nik’s thoughts on Coinbase’s Lend product and the SEC’s stance on lending products
what the overall picture of crypto lending is in the US
whether the SEC will go after DeFi protocols
what to expect from the SEC going forward, especially with the end of its fiscal year coming up next week

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Episode Links

Nikhilesh De

CoinDesk articles: https://www.coindesk.com/author/nikde/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikhileshde

Content

SEC Chair Gary Gensler Washington Post Q&A
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2021/09/21/transcript-path-forward-cryptocurrency-with-gary-gensler/
Brian Armstrong tweet storm
- https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1435439291715358721
BlockFi and Celsius overview
- https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/17/3-states-alabama-securities-commission-also-claims-celsius-violated-securities-laws/

Read my latest Medium post, “The Reason Crypto Regulation Is Turning Out to Be So Difficult,” which takes take a deeper dive into some of the topics addressed in this pod :)

https://medium.com/@laurashin/the-reason-crypto-regulation-is-turning-out-to-be-so-difficult-788cc134958d

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How OG Crypto Artist Rhea Myers Sold a Never-Seen Artwork at Sotheby's - Ep.274 Sep 21, 2021

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Rhea Myers, artist, hacker, writer, and senior smart contract developer at Dapper Labs, has been making crypto art before NFTs were a thing. Check out this episode to learn about Rhea’s work as an OG crypto artist, why she believes concerns over NFT energy consumption are overblown, and how NFTs are changing the art world. Show highlights

Rhea’s experience entering the crypto space
what inspired her to make Bitcoin-based transaction art
what blockchain art she was creating in 2014
how she helped Coin Artist create crypto puzzles
what Rhea thinks about Cadence, the programming language for Flow
what conceptual art and blockchain art have in common
how Rhea minted her soul on a Dogecoin fork
how Rhea came up with the idea of Secret Artwork (Content), which was recently sold at a Sotheby’s auction
what cryptographic elements influenced Secret Artwork (Content)
why Rhea was wrong about how the NFT industry would evolve
why Rhea believes concerns over NFT energy usage are overblown
how NFTs are changing the art world
what Rhea thinks about the NFT DAO movement
what about NFTs make them so fascinating, in a legal sense, to Rhea

Read the sidebar — and see Rhea's artwork!

If you'd like to see the art discussed in the show, be sure to check out the sidebar I wrote on Medium:

https://medium.com/@laurashin/how-rhea-myers-made-blockchain-art-before-nfts-were-a-thing-e6ac52d3abf9

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Episode Links

Rhea Myers

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rheaplex
Website: https://rhea.art/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertmyers/

Example Art

Secret Artwork (Content)
- https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/natively-digital-a-curated-nft-sale-2/secret-artwork-content

MYSOUL
- https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/nft-joke-1234588596/
Is Art
- https://rhea.art/is-art
Proof Of Existence 2, 2014, Bitcoin Transaction
- https://rhea.art/proof-of-existence
Art examples
- https://rhea.art/art

Other

Artists Rethinking the Blockchain (book)
- https://torquetorque.net/publications/artists-rethinking-the-blockchain/
Generative art (featuring Rhea Myers)
- https://medium.com/@mitchellfchan/nfts-generative-art-and-sol-lewitt-e99a5fa2b0cb
Blockade games + crypto puzzles
- https://blockade.games/press/index.html
- https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.4528357/this-painting-is-actually-a-bitcoin-puzzle-worth-more-than-40k-and-someone-finally-solved-it-1.4529176
Unchained Episode: What Exactly Do You Get When You Buy an NFT? Three Lawyers Discuss
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/what-exactly-do-you-get-when-you-buy-an-nft-three-lawyers-discuss/

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Unconfirmed: Solana's Outage Lasted 17 Hours. What Does This Mean for Decentralization? - Ep.273 Sep 17, 2021

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Aidan Mott, research analyst at Messari, discusses Solana’s network restart that resulted in the blockchain going dark for 17 hours earlier this week. Show highlights:

when Solana validators noticed something was wrong and how they responded
what initial dex offering (IDO) caused the network to be flooded with transactions
how a surge in bot transactions pushed validators to decide to restart the network
how Solana’s outage compares to similar incidents on other chains
why the Solana community was most likely not surprised by the 17-hour restart
how Solana validators and the Solana Foundation coordinated the network restart
how Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko communicated with the community during the outage
whether Solana is still vulnerable to a similar flood of transactions
what the network restart means in terms of Solana’s centralization
why Solana validators running the same client could be an issue

Check Out the Related Article In addition to the analysis from Aidan, I did an interview with a Solana validator about his experience of the outage, and his concerns for the network going forward. Check out "The Experience of One Validator: What Happened During Solana's 17-Hour Outage?" in my Facebook Bulletin newsletter here -- and subscribe today! https://laurashin.bulletin.com/178076467796725

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Aidan Mott