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S01E06 - "The Players"
Aired on Feb 5, 2019, 4:00 AM
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Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the first and best-known application of the blockchain. A decade into its existence, bitcoin remains mysterious to the general public: from its nature, its source of value, the reasons behind price fluctuation, to diverging policies across countries. Episode 1 revisits the legacy of Satoshi Nakamoto, uncovering some life-changing bitcoin stories.
Mar 27, 2018
50 min
Fork
The design of bitcoin is based on a check and balance principle that guarantees the decentralization of power. However, the problem of scalability has divided the bitcoin community and provoked heated debate. Since Americans write the code and the Chinese are miners, the bitcoin debate went from technological to ideological.
Nov 13, 2018
50 min
Blockchain Rises
Bitcoin is massively disruptive and influential, however, the real potential and opportunity is the underlying technology of blockchain. The revolutionary blockchain technology brings the internet of information to the second era of the Internet--The Internet of Value.
Nov 20, 2018
50 min
The Chain Of Everything
Since people's growing interest in blockchain applications has gone beyond cryptocurrency, 19-years-old Vitalik Buterin created Ethereum in 2013 for people in general to build a decentralized application. More and more people realized the importance of building infrastructure while exploring blockchain technology. The advent of Ethereum opened up a new path for public blockchains...
Dec 11, 2018
50 min
Of Greatness And Greed
Initial Coin Offering (ICO) offers a platform that opens up capital inflows from the masses and impacts the traditional forms of capital raise. However, due to the lack of regulations, the failure rate on investment is high and ICOs have been described as "the craziest bubble ever".
Jan 1, 2019
50 min
The Players
The blockchain industry has only completed its first ten years in existence and the people and the industry have experienced ups and downs that other industries may only experience throughout a millennia. Besides finance and investment, how can we change the world by using blockchain technology? How can blockchain benefit ordinary people?
Feb 5, 2019
50 min