How To Think About Investing In Cryptocurrency: What needs to exist

In this episode featuring cryptocurrency fund managerĀ Ari Paul, you’ll learn:

  • What investable protocols and services the world needs that are best-suited for blockchain
  • Why cryptocurrency is not necessarily a winner take all market
  • Why communities are critical to the long-term success of a cryptocurrency
  • How shared beliefs of crypto token communities influence development roadmaps and governance, as illustrated by Bitcoin and Ethereum
  • Why Bitcoin is a serious contender for the “store of value” use case of digital gold, and how being the winner of that niche may meanĀ it that it will be difficult for Bitcoin to succeed as the leading payment crypto token
  • Why dApps (decentralized applications), privacy coins, and more may have several breakout winners

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Cryptoeconomics 101

In this episode featuring cryptocurrency venture fund founder Nick Tomaino, you will learn:

  • What ‘cryptoeconomics’ is, and why it matters to the ecosystem
  • The history of decentralized systems including Kazaa and Bittorrent, and why the lack of cryptoeconomic systems stifled them from thriving
  • How Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum protocol, is pushing the bounds of cryptoeconomics
  • How crypto monetary policy influences the trajectory decentralized networks

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