Next stop, Cryptoland? (Ep. 411)
Ben, Ryan, Cassidy, and Ceora talk about Cryptoland, “the first physical crypto island,” which has drawn fyre (oops, fire) from people trying to figure out whether it’s a real project, a parody, or a scam. From there, the team talks about the crypto world, how its reputation has suffered from associations with less-than-savory players, and how the blockchain concept has evolved from Bitcoin to Solana.
Episode notes:
The Twitter thread that brought Cryptoland to the team’s attention.
Ceora wonders whether participants in a hypothetical, decentralized version of YouTube (a YouTube-like dApp) would need coding skills to contribute meaningfully.
Why is Ethereum so expensive and so congested?
Ben outlines how Solana has become the fastest-growing blockchain in the world by evolving the Ethereum concept to make it more scalable and less congested.
Tags: cryptocurrency, the stack overflow podcast
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> Ceora wonders whether participants in a hypothetical, decentralized version of YouTube (a YouTube-like dApp) would need coding skills to contribute meaningfully.
There’s already an operational (and non-crypto-associated) decentralized version of YouTube called PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org/). Participants don’t need coding skills, but server administration skills are needed to stand up a node. Not all participants need to run their own node, though, even though many do. There’s no voting across all nodes, but each node is controlled by its administrator.
> Ben, Ryan, Cassidy, and Ceora talk about Cryptoland, “the first physical crypto island,” which has drawn fyre (oops, fire) from people trying to figure out whether it’s a real project, a parody, or a scam.
If it’s cryptocurrency-related, the default position is always “scam.”
Someone thinks crypto is a stable form of curreency?
Isn’t that cute?