In this episode featuring Software Engineer Haseeb Qureshi, you’ll learn about the four potential killer apps of blockchain technology: dark web and black market payments, digital gold, payments (macro and micro), and tokenization.
Tokens
Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation
In this episode featuring Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures, you’ll learn:
- How Bitcoin and other decentralized blockchains will drive the decentralization of the internet
- How blockchain protocols provide incentives for the creation and governance of technologies that were previously largely unmonetized public resources
- Examples of how companies such as Sia and Filecoin are using blockchains to fund their development and capitalize on the potential success of their technology
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