Juan Benet
7 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Juan Benet · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 negative
Benet: Scammers will exploit retail investors in crypto token sales
“I mean, the reality is that it's going to be super hard for a lot of people to do the diligence on these networks and understand which of them are actually valuable. And there will be bad actors that are going to take advantage of that system and try to scam p…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Benet: Protocol tokens act as internet-native equity for decentralized networks
“Think about it in terms of company equity. When you're thinking about building technology and so on, it can pay people salaries and dollars and so on. And you can give them equity, which gives them a share of the thing you're creating. And that's what protocol…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Benet: Storing petabytes on AWS S3 is prohibitively expensive
“One is, these things in volume are not actually free, so if you try to store hundreds of terabytes or petabytes in Amazon S III, you're gonna have a bad time. Just thinking about the bandwidth alone, ah, if you actually want to access all that data, it's gonna…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Benet: Bitcoin mining energy consumption exceeded Slovenia's total power expenditure
“Yeah, last we calculated it was more power expenditure than all of Slovenia and so, I think it's much more now because of the recent spike, a lot of miners came in in the last couple of months, so it's a lot of power,”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Benet: High-throughput blockchain scaling implementations will be live within two years
“So expect that to happen over the next year or two. Already there's a bunch of academic results that show this is not only possible, but it's provably so. So now people are building those Implementations, and we'll see them live in the next two years or so.”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Benet: Academic research proved doubling Bitcoin block size has minimal impact
“The debates that have been raging for the last two years are about relatively minor things, so increasing the block size became this huge holy war, and when you step back and look at what they're talking about, it's just increasing one factor, either by, you k…”