Soona Amhaz of Token Day-to-day talks about how we’ve misused the observe decentralization and stretched it to the level of meaninglessness. She discusses how obvious companies signify being decentralized in a technique that misleads the uninformed user and walks us through some misleading graphs put out by Ripple and EOS. She also explains why, when a staunch metric turns into a target, people will then sport it, and why we must be originate to initiatives changing into decentralized over time.

We also focus on tribalism, and why it’s deplorable in handiest some conditions — cherish for investors — nonetheless staunch for other groups of participants in the crypto house. Plus, we dish about Nouriel Roubini’s and Peter Van Valkenburgh’s testimony to the Senate on cryptocurrencies.

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Episode hyperlinks:

Soona Amhaz: https://twitter.com/soonaorlater

Token Day-to-day: https://www.tokendaily.co

Crypto Springs: http://www.cryptosprings.org

Unchained episode on Ripple: http://unchainedpodcast.co/ripples-xrp-why-its-probabilities-of-success-are-low-ep58

Singularity episode with Galia Benartzi of Bancor: http://unchainedpodcast.co/singularity-university-world-summit-how-plan-we-get-user-adoption-ep83

The worm in the Bitcoin device: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakp3/a-fundamental-worm-in-bitcoin-device-might well possibly well-bear-crashed-the-forex

The Senate hearings on crypto featuring NYU economist Nouriel Roubini and Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh: https://www.youtube.com/look for?v=ZFc0Um6WUU4

Sample of Roubini’s tweets: https://twitter.com/Nouriel/web order/1050425363413827584