A Beginners Guide to Ethereum

In this episode featuring early Coinbase employee Linda Xie, you’ll learn:

  • What Ethereum is, and how it compares to Bitcoin
  • What a ‘smart contract’ is, and why programmable digital money matters
  • Some of the most interesting use cases of Ethereum including identity, scarce resource markets, next-generation social media, and more
  • How fundraising using Ethereum ERC-20 tokens is providing fuel for talented engineers to create blockchain-based projects

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Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five

In this episode featuring Nik Custodio, you’ll learn:

  • How Bitcoin works at a fundamental level, ideal for beginners to cryptocurrency
  • Examples of previous ways of exchanging value before Bitcoin was invented, and the disadvantages of them compared to Bitcoin
  • Why it was difficult to exchange digital scarcity prior to the invention of Bitcoin
  • How Bitcoin enables trustless exchange

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Why Decentralized Exchange Protocols Matter

In this episode featuring Fred Ehrsam, Co-Founder of Coinbase, you’ll learn:

  • What a decentralized exchange (DEX) is, how they work, what types of applications can be built on top of decentralized exchanges, and how they compare to a centralized exchange
  • The benefits that decentralized exchanges can uniquely offer that centralized exchanges cannot, as well as some of the current drawbacks of decentralized exchanges
  • Why there is a need for the decentralized exchange for tokens
  • The difference between a decentralized exchange and a decentralized exchange protocol

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