blockchain

also referred to as: blockchains

27 statements across 21 episodes · 16 bullish · 5 bearish · 21 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2017 by Tom Kineshanko · across every show →

Everything said about blockchain, oldest first

Aug 18, 2017 bullish
Prediction Held up
Kineshanko: Dedicated blockchains will emerge for identity and medical data
“There's going to be a lot of different blockchains. Like there'll be a blockchain for transferring identity. There will be a blockchain for secure medical information.”
Tom Kineshanko Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 9:48 755: Want to Invest in BitCoin But Don't Understand It? Listen to This.
Aug 18, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kineshanko: Blockchain activity can be traced to identify specific users
“Well, you can actually track activity on the blockchain quite nicely because it's all open source. So it's a bit tricky to figure out who's doing what, because people can have, you know, you or I could create wallets, numerous wallets and do stuff with those.…”
Tom Kineshanko Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 6:06 755: Want to Invest in BitCoin But Don't Understand It? Listen to This.
Aug 18, 2017 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2022
Kineshanko predicts multiple blockchains will act as trillion-dollar digital gold
“I think there's going to be multiple blockchains that act like gold, digital gold, and multiple blockchains worth trillions of dollars.”
Tom Kineshanko Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 11:07 755: Want to Invest in BitCoin But Don't Understand It? Listen to This.
Aug 21, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Di Iorio: Blockchain Will Be More Important Than the Internet
“I recognized way back when that this is going to be more important than the internet, and that was something that just, it hit me with, okay, wait, you can now move value instantly, globally, for pretty much free, just like you'd move an email.”
Anthony Di Iorio Aug 21, 2017 ▶ 1:40 758: The Ex-Stock Exchange Brain Behind Ethereum Blockchain
Aug 21, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Di Iorio: Blockchains Will Automate Intermediaries in Law, Insurance, and Beyond
“Every other sector that's used to having these third-party intermediaries can now be automated on blockchains, and you're going to see a massive reduction in costs, and you're going to see us trying to figure out how do we make money when the ways of making mo…”
Anthony Di Iorio Aug 21, 2017 ▶ 3:14 758: The Ex-Stock Exchange Brain Behind Ethereum Blockchain
Aug 22, 2017 positive
Insight
Tang: Token incentives align users to evangelize and grow network value
“The whole idea of the blockchain is that the participants are actually the stakeholders, right? So in a traditional application, if you use something like Facebook live, you know, you are used, you are a user of Facebook live, but that's it, right? As much as …”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 6:02 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Aug 26, 2017 bearish
Insight
Kirsch: Blockchain consensus is inappropriate for low-latency financial systems
“There's no real need for that in a lot of financial applications and for something that needs to perform really quickly meaning super low latency and very high throughput. The technology for blockchain is just not appropriate because you just don't have the ti…”
Steve Kirsch Aug 26, 2017 ▶ 5:21 763: He's Raised $18.5m To Help Banks Use Open API's, Makes Money From # of API Calls
Sep 13, 2017 negative
Opinion
Jentzsch: Currency Is Blockchain's Least Interesting Aspect
“I think currency is the least interesting aspect of blockchain for me right now.”
Christoph Jentzsch Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 24:05 781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World
Sep 14, 2017 negative
Insight
Pon: Per-Transaction Crypto Pricing Models Are Unhealthy Rent Extraction
“We looked at per transaction, but that starts extracting kind of rent in a non-healthy way. So yes, we grow with the network and it's easier for small companies to join up. But if you're talking like millions and millions, yeah, millions and billions of transa…”
Bruce Pon Sep 14, 2017 ▶ 7:27 782: Crypto: With $50k MRR, He's Buildling Crypto Database To Track Accuracy
Sep 25, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Attorneys asked Khaund for blockchain guidance due to lack of precedent
“In fact, they're almost asking me a little bit. The most fascinating thing about this is that this is such new territory right now that there are times when I get as many questions as I can ask, because it's almost like, hey, we know the law, but you know bloc…”
Sandy Khaund Sep 25, 2017 ▶ 12:13 793: Will This Funded Event Ticketing Company ICO?
Oct 14, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
Wilcox: Zcash acts like SSL by protecting blockchain data confidentiality
“Yeah, I like that analogy because we protect the access to the data, the confidentiality of the data that goes into the blockchain.”
Zooko Wilcox Oct 14, 2017 ▶ 2:59 812: Crypto: $3m Raised, He's Build the SSL for Cryptocurrency
Oct 23, 2017 positive
Insight
Kwon: Blockchains derive security from being lightweight enough for users to audit locally
“Everyone gets security from the fact that they know that they can download the blockchain around themselves. They can audit it themselves. It's accessible. So, it's good that a blockchain is a small machine, but replicated all around the world so that it's not…”
Jay Kwon Oct 23, 2017 ▶ 2:49 821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
Oct 23, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kwon: Tendermint functions as an engine for secure state machine replication
“Tendermint is the engine Or it is one of the many engines that enable the creation of blockchains which is synonymous to replicating state machines in a secure way.”
Jay Kwon Oct 23, 2017 ▶ 3:22 821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
Nov 7, 2017 positive
Opinion
Thomas: The core challenge in fintech is interoperability across blockchains and central ledgers
“We think the real challenge and the real interesting technology is going to be in the interoperability between all these systems. And again, not just blockchain, but also central ledgers, because sometimes that's the best solution.”
Stefan Thomas Nov 7, 2017 ▶ 12:24 836: Crypto: $94m Raised to Be Enterprise Blockchain for Global Payments
Dec 4, 2017 bearish
Assertion Supported
Wise: Blockchain cannot handle programmatic ad scale
“Number one, they cannot, it cannot handle the level of scale that online advertising has, programmatic specifically.”
Bill Wise Dec 4, 2017 ▶ 23:46 863 AdTech: $720m Valuation, The 50+ Year Unicorn Processing $160 Billion in Spend
Apr 28, 2018 neutral
Opinion
Bill Clerico: Crypto has no killer app for small business software
“But I think what we found is that in this part of the market, there really hasn't been a killer application of those technologies yet.”
Bill Clerico Apr 28, 2018 ▶ 4:53 1008 WePay CEO on $1b+ in Transaction Volume Helping Your Favorite Online Platforms Process Payments
Jun 27, 2018 bullish
Disclosure
Sitecake Plans to Transition Its Static CMS to the Blockchain
“Sidekick is, is you know, the regular CMS, but we have plans to, you know transfer it and use the possibilities of blockchain.”
Nikola Mirčić Jun 27, 2018 ▶ 1:49 1068 SiteCake: We Rely on Whitelabel Partners With Unique Kickback Structure
Aug 5, 2018 positive
Insight
Gaming invented cryptocurrency mechanics long before blockchain existed
“If anybody who's listening understands cryptocurrency blockchain, and all of this technology, it all existed in the game industry before cryptocurrency became popular.”
Howard Marks Aug 5, 2018 ▶ 2:32 1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!
Aug 5, 2018 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Howard Marks predicted SaaS models would inevitably transform into ICOs
“You know, for them, the SaaS business is probably the only way a software model is going to work, but it's going to transform itself into the ICO model, which is the blockchain, because it's the logical progression, you know, internet, one point O internet, tw…”
Howard Marks Aug 5, 2018 ▶ 17:55 1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!
Nov 19, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Frohwein: Kabbage Explores Blockchain to Hedge Capital Permanence Risks
“The way I think about blockchain, and frankly, crypto, if you will, that sits on top of blockchain, is a way to maybe either hedge against some of the permanence issues that, that exist in the capital markets for companies like Cabbage or a way to so either a …”
Rob Frohwein Nov 19, 2018 ▶ 15:22 1213 Kabbage CEO: We've lent $5b to 150,000 SMB's, Will Pass $300m in 2018 Revenue
Mar 27, 2019 bullish
Opinion
Latka: Blockchain is easiest way for users to own content
“I just think blockchain is going to be the easiest way to do that, right? With encrypted codes for each of this content you'd create.”
Nathan Latka Mar 27, 2019 ▶ 1:25 1341 Reverse merger on australia stock exhange
Apr 7, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Almond: Financial ecosystem will eventually shift to pure blockchain
“Not everything is like this pure blockchain world yet. We think that's eventually where it goes.”
Jeremy Almond Apr 7, 2019 ▶ 12:23 1352 B2B Version of Venmo About to Pass $5m in ARR
Apr 7, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Almond: Paystand operates proprietary payment network built on blockchain
“We actually own our own payment network. We use something called the blockchain which is sort of a really new way to think about financial services in general.”
Jeremy Almond Apr 7, 2019 ▶ 4:03 1352 B2B Version of Venmo About to Pass $5m in ARR
Feb 16, 2020 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Malone: Governments will mandate backdoors in all blockchain technology
“And we're going to build it into blockchain. I don't know how with all those, all that security and everything else, but they're going to demand it. Because if you don't control that information or have access to that information, you lose your national sovere…”
Mike Malone Feb 16, 2020 ▶ 18:03 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
May 7, 2022
Insight
Hansen: Blockchain compliance must precede equity transaction infrastructure
“Also because in the blockchain space, nobody was kind of Solving the legal and compliance and all of those things, which you actually have to solve before you put the platform, the infrastructure for equity transactions in place.”
Kim Hansen May 7, 2022 ▶ 4:18 How He Used PLG to Hit $70k in Revenue this Month
May 30, 2022 neutral
Insight
Liu: NFT market growth comes from creators' use cases, not underlying blockchains
“Growth doesn't necessarily start with the chain, right? It's the creators who create use cases for NFTs, and those use cases pull in new users. Chain is just a technology, just like an operating system on which it lives.”
Jack Liu May 30, 2022 ▶ 13:57 They sold $400m in NFT's last month, made $8m, broke $200m valuation during Series A
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Vardhan: Circle X uses Web3 for end-to-end waste traceability
“And then on top of that, we plugged in blockchain and web three because it will give us a hundred percent traceability and transparency over the complete journey of the waste.”
Vishnu Vardhan Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 5:15 How he went $0 to $1m/mo in under 24 months for Waste Management SaaS in India
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