The Ledger

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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
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
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
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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