In this episode featuring Crypto Venture Fund Co-Founder Nick Tomaino, you’ll learn how his $26M fund, 1Confirmation, decides how to deploy their capital into blockchain investments.
Blockchain
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
A Beginner’s Guide to Tezos
In this episode featuring early Coinbase employee Linda Xie, you’ll learn:
- What the Tezos protocol is, who the founders are, and how it compares to Ethereum
- How the Tezos approach to upgrading functionality compares to blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum
- How developers in the Tezos ecosystem are compensated for their code
- The differences and advantages between PoW (Proof of Work) and PoS (Proof of Stake)
- How Tezos’ formal verification feature — allowing developers to mathematically prove the correctness of their smart contract code — could be used