Decentralized Applications
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
6 statements about Decentralized Applications, every show
Booth: Tech Monopolies Inevitably Reconsolidate Because Humans Cannot Handle Infinite Choice
“So even if you now break it back apart, somebody's going to sit on top and consolidate it back.”
Yahya: Centralized storage is the weakest link for decentralized applications
“All of those will require storage, and if that storage were centralized, Then the whole point would be lost. That would be the weakest link. So you need decentralized storage for those applications to come along.”
Walden: DApps require stablecoin stability to scale to millions of users
“Well, in order for decentralized applications, which are deployed on top of blockchains to reach millions and millions of users, the experience needs to rival that of, you know, a traditional web two startup. And, you know, in most parts of the world, we have …”
Xie: Decentralized applications are censorship resistant and cannot be shut down
“And we refer to these as decentralized applications, or dApps. And so these are applications that run on a decentralized network. They're censorship resistant and can't be shut down.”
Rampell: Cryptocurrency is a new asset class enabling decentralized apps
“The way to think about a Cryptocurrency is it's a new asset class that enables a decentralized application.”
Tang: Livepeer is the only dApp video streaming solution in 2017
“If you are Creating a decentralized application, and you want to add video streaming to the application, there is right now really no solution to do that, because all the video streaming solutions are centralized solutions, and we are kind of, we're kind of th…”