The Decentralized Life: Recent Episodes
Edward Tay
Learn from the innovators and personalities from the P2P & blockchain space. Explore how you can live a decentralized life today. Hosted by Edward Tay.
Sacred Finance is a decentralized protocol that enables private yield redemption and the private transfer of funds. Sacred enables you to deposit funds into a mixer with one address, and redeem it with a different address, breaking the on-chain link and obscuring the record on the blockchain from observers. This is possible thanks to zero knowledge proofs.
In this episode, we discussed
- Motivation and thesis of Sacred Finance
- Importance of privacy and improving the UI for privacy protocols
- The upcoming Trusted Setup Ceremony for Sacred v1
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Filip is a developer relations manager at Unique Network, a scalable blockchain for composable NFTs with advanced economies — The NFT chain built for Polkadot and Kusama.
In this episode, we discussed
- What's unique about the Unique Network
- Design space approaches in NFTs
- What does mainstream adoption of NFTs look like and are we there yet
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Lefteris is a developer from Berlin and has been involved in blockchain since the early days of Ethereum. Rotki is an open source portfolio tracker, accounting and analytics tool that protects your privacy.
In this episode, we discussed
- His motivation for starting Rotki, and challenges in open source development especially in the crypto space.
- Issues regarding privacy that users should pay attention to, so that security is not compromised.
- Lefteris's involvement in DAOs, notably Gitcoin and ENS.
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Patric Chan is a best-selling author, international speaker in 12 countries and internet marketing pioneer. In the internet marketing world, he has been known as a Super Affiliate. He’s also the author of WakeUp Millionaire, Right now, he has decided not to sell the book in Amazon anymore but make it available as an NFT.
In this episode, we discussed
- How internet marketing has evolved from web1 to web2 to web3
- Why creators should pay attention to NFTs and how to launch a collection today
- The motivation behind PatricNFT and MMNFT
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Alex Smirnov is an IT expert, entrepreneur, and blockchain enthusiast. Alex is now fully focused on DeFi and works on the development of cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol called deBridge.
In this episode, we discussed
- deBridge emerging as the winner of Chainlink Global Hackathon in 2021
- How protocols and users can interact with the deBridge Testnet 2.0
- What it means to be fully composable and connect the puzzle for the entire multi-chain ecosystem
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Eduardo is the Latin America Marketing Manager of Status. He loves helping people understand the power of Crypto, Privacy and Decentralization.
In this episode, we discussed
- The origin story of Status, the “holy trinity” (Ethereum, Swarm and Whisper)
- Status products which includes Vac, Nimbus, Keycard, Embark, Subspace and Waku
- The use of $SNT, and how you can get involved to be part of the Status global community today
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Roi is a crypto enthusiast who's very involved with the Japan community, and also a Chainlink advocate. Since entering into the blockchain space just over year ago, he's been organizing whitepaper studies to educate others about potential of web3.
In this episode, we discussed
- Theories of L1 and "Layer 0" chains
- CCIP vs IBC vs bridges
- What makes a good oracle network
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Zachary Edwards is the content lead & community manager at Subsocial Network, an open platform that allows anyone to launch their own decentralized censorship-resistant social networks and marketplaces. Subsocial will help you create your own decentralized version of the popular sites we see today, such as Medium, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Discourse, Patreon, OnlyFans and more.
In this episode, we discussed
- How value was extracted by social media platforms of Web 2.0,
- Solving the problem of censorship and platform bans
- Tips to start using Subsocial today
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Freddy Zwanzger is the Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer of Anyblock, a German SaaS solution provider for blockchain developers. Freddy regularly speaks about the concept of blockchains and the strategic business impact of distributed ledger technologies. At his work, he helps blockchain projects to get actionable insights into their on-chain data.
In this episode, we discussed
- Anyblock's unique selling proposition (USP) in SaaS and machine-to-machine communication services
- Key to providing reliable blockchain data on-chain and off=chain
- Why decentralizing client base is so important
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Jason Chew is the managing partner of Bitcoin Malaysia and director of community growth at Aavegotchi. He is a bitcoin enthusiast and has conducted many events to advocate for its legitimacy in Malaysia.
In this episode, we discussed
- 6 sources of legitimacy, with reference to Vitalik's article
- Jason's journey into the crypto rabbit hole, and advice for beginners in the space
- How you can participate in Aavegotchi, and be rewarded in the ambassador program.
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Jerry Feng leads growth and marketing at Stacker Ventures, a community-run protocol for initiating and managing pooled capital on the blockchain. Structured as a DAO, Stacker Ventures initiates decentralized funds, accelerates venture fund portfolio investments through an involved community, and provides checks and balances to fund management.
In this episode, we discussed
- Traditional VC vs Decentralized VC
- Governance and decision process in Stackers using the STACK token
- How you can participate in yield opportunities in the Stacker ecosystem today
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Tieshun Roquerre is the founder and CEO of Namebase. Namebase is a secure and easy platform to interact with Handshake, a decentralized internet blockchain DNS for the decentralized web.
In this episode, we discussed
- Why decentralized Domain Name System (DNS) is fundamental for censorship resistance.
- Use cases for a Handshake top-level domain (TLD)
- Owning your self-sovereign domain on Namebase and connect to apps
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Philip Silva is an advisor of BrightID, an app that does anti-Sybil analyses algorithms of previous social graphs. He is also involved in the LAO, Flamingo DAO, and Neptune, and is a staunch supporter of universal decentralisation.
In this episode, we discussed
- Tackling the Sybil problem in a social graph
- The need for Universal Basic Income with new distribution mechanisms
- How to participate in DAOs and be rewarded as an early adopter
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Stuart Bowman is the creator of Satellite. Satellite utilizes digital signatures, peer-to-peer networks, and a content-surfacing algorithm designed to reward publishers who find common ground, It is a new take on what a social platform can be.
In this episode, we discussed
- Stuart's optimism on the decentralized web, and inspiration from the early internet
- Technical challenges in building a social network in the web3 space
- Social capital = financial capital
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Patrick Stanley is the founder of Freehold, where hodlers can grow their holdings and reputation by educating others about crypto. Freehold aims to expand the world’s wealth by enabling people to work on things they believe in.
In this episode, we discussed
- Stacks ecosystem that's built on Bitcoin. Stack STX to earn BTC!
- Driving community growth, user adoption in crypto, and meme marketing.
- Roadmap for Freehold including a project that involves city coins
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Brantly Millegan is the director of operations at Ethereum Name Service. ENS is a decentralized naming system built on Ethereum.
In this episode, we discussed
- The role of ENS in decentralizing the DNS stack, while integrating with existing infrastructure.
- Practical uses of ENS domains: self custody, smart contracts, wallet addressing, dweb hosting etc.
- Attempts to prevent domain squatting/hoarding.
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Stefan King has studied Bitcoin since 2013 and became an active evangelist in 2016. He has a track record in software marketing and applied himself to the intricacies of launching crypto-assets. He is the author of Blockchain Startups: Bitcoin and Ethereum as the Frontier of Finance. As a host of the Weekly Bitcoin Meetup in Chiang Mai, he explains Bitcoin to beginners and helps entrepreneurs build on Bitcoin and Ethereum.
In this episode, we discuss
- Lightning Network
- Interesting startups in the blockchain space and the challenges they are solving
- How crypto is so disruptive to the future of finance
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Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin expert. and has written 3 books, one for programming Bitcoin, one explaining Bitcoin and one arguing how Bitcoin is more moral than the current system. He has been in the Bitcoin industry as a programmer, advisor, investor, author, speaker and educator
In this episode, we discuss
- Bitcoin vs Gold
- How bitcoin is morally superior to the current financial system based on biblical values
- Why it is good to cultivate a low time preference behavior
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Alex Dischinger is the host of the Tucson Bitcoin Podcast. His goal is to get Bitcoin education to as many people in my community as possible. He is not a “crypto” person and have a sole focus on Bitcoin.
In this episode, we discuss
- How fiat system has failed us
- Origin and evolution of bitcoin
- The importance of self custody with hardware wallets
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