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Eric Tang

1 appearance on the record.

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10statements → 4claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.7/5average certainty → 1.7/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

2 supported 0 partly supported 2 contradicted how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 5 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Eric argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Tang: Bitcoin and Ethereum will coexist and serve distinct use cases
“I think all of these blockchains will exist, will coexist. So it's not like Ethereum is going to exist and Bitcoin is going to go away. My personal belief is that Bitcoin has its use case, and so does Ethereum.”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 10:14 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
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…”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 4:21 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
33% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Eric Tang on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Eric Tang said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
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…”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 4:21 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Insight
Tang: Governments can easily block centralized video services like Wowza
“If you want to build in video streaming into those applications you would have to use something like LiveSphere. Versus, wow, you couldn't use Wowza. Yeah, because the government will be able to figure out the IP of Lauza and block the service.”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 5:11 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
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
Insight
Tang: Bitcoin forks will fail because miners lack incentives to switch
“The reason they will not they will not be successful is because the Bitcoin blockchain now is so big that there are so many miners on the network that there is essentially no incentive for them to switch to a much smaller, newer network.”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 9:21 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Prediction Held up
Tang: Bitcoin and Ethereum will coexist and serve distinct use cases
“I think all of these blockchains will exist, will coexist. So it's not like Ethereum is going to exist and Bitcoin is going to go away. My personal belief is that Bitcoin has its use case, and so does Ethereum.”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 10:14 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Insight
Tang: Excess mining capacity lowers decentralized infrastructure prices and drives adoption
“If you're spending up a bunch of miners, you're actually providing a lot of computation resources To the network. So for a network that works, that has the right incentives in place the network will leverage the access capacity that you provide to the network …”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 13:46 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Insight
Tang: Crypto needs marketers to translate technical complexity for mainstream adoption
“In order for crypto to reach the mainstream, there's actually a huge need for people who are able to translate the complex complexity into simple languages. So for people who are native marketers, people like you, right? So there's a huge need for that skill.”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 16:10 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Assertion Supported
Tang: ConsenSys is hiring 400 people to build the Ethereum ecosystem
“Joseph Lubin, who was one of the one of the founders of Ethereum left Ethereum to start ConsenSys, which is now hiring, you know, 400 people just building applications, building open source projects around the Ethereum ecosystem to make that network grow as qu…”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 7:25 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Disclosure
Tang: Livepeer launched its token on Ethereum for underlying network security
“In fact, Lifepeer is built on top of Ethereum. we use the Ethereum platform to launch our token so that so that people can hold our token and not have to worry about How secure the Livepeer blockchain is because we use, we kind of leverage the security of th…”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 11:21 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why
Assertion Contradicted
Tang: Bitcoin's price is currently a little over $2,500
“Now Bitcoin price is, I think, a little over 2500 dollars.”
Eric Tang Aug 22, 2017 ▶ 18:16 759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
759: He Shares How He Built His Company On Top of Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Why Aug 22, 2017 11m
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