Welcome to the final episode of Hash Power, an audio documentary that explores the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This concluding episode is about how blockchains may shape our future, allowing unique methods of fundraising, and experimentation through forking. Episodes 1 and 2, on understanding blockchains and cryptocurrency investing, are also available now.

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Be sure to listen until the end, where we close with some advice about conducting ourselves in a new world where creativity reigns and repetitive jobs disappear—a trend that may only accelerate thanks to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.

Show Notes

0:05 – Intro to episode 3 and what to expect

4:00 – Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain, on how the funding and investing in cryptocurrencies could easily get out of hand

5:00 – How people are creating holding companies to fund cryptocurrencies protocols

6:45 – Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and how they will replace the aforementioned holding companies

8:32 – Could fully decentralized organizations replace other more traditional organizational structures, even outside of crypto currency

9:59 – How can DAO’s impact everyday lives

12:39 – Why your skills and accomplishments will become more important than who you are or where you are from

15:38 – Ready Player One: A Novel

16:09 – Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angellist, on the way humans cooperate and build new entities

17:51 – When people will demand oversight and regulation over crypto currency

20:42 – Peter Van Valkenburg, Director of Research at Coincenter on the current state of regulation

26:06 – Jameson Lopp on security needed to protect your cryptocurrency

26:22 – Glacierprotocol.org

27:51 – Ari Paul, co-founder of Blocktower, on how nail polish is used to protect their crypto wallet

30:03 – Juan Benet explains the Filecoin Protocol

35:52 – Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Blockstack, on how his team is plans to provide basic tools that will allow the broader developer community to build apps that the cryptocurrency population will use.

38:01 – Comparing blockstack to the analogy of creating a city

40:17 – How the blockstack token fits into everything

43:15 – Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, on forking in blockchains

47:52 – Naval Ravikant on how the idea of work will change in the future, and how that change helped to produce the idea of a blockchain in the first place.

49:31 – Why curiosity should govern what you do in life

53:22 – Naval’s framework for making money