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
Aug 18, 2017 neutral
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.…”
Aug 18, 2017 bullish
Aug 21, 2017 bullish
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.”
Aug 21, 2017 bullish
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…”
Aug 22, 2017 positive
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 …”
Aug 26, 2017 bearish
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…”
Sep 13, 2017 negative
Sep 14, 2017 negative
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…”
Sep 25, 2017 neutral
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…”
Oct 14, 2017 positive
Oct 23, 2017 positive
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…”
Oct 23, 2017 neutral
Nov 7, 2017 positive
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.”
Dec 4, 2017 bearish
Apr 28, 2018 neutral
Jun 27, 2018 bullish
Aug 5, 2018 positive
Aug 5, 2018 bullish
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…”
Nov 19, 2018 positive
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 …”
Mar 27, 2019 bullish
Apr 7, 2019 bullish
Apr 7, 2019 bullish
Feb 16, 2020 bearish
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…”
May 7, 2022
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.”
May 30, 2022 neutral
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.”