oracles

On today’s conversation with Daniel Hinton and Steve Jeffress, they talk about the idea of financial oracles and how the price of Bitcoin in US dollar terms is passively showing up in the data of the Bitcoin blockchain. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 01:39 - What is an Oracle and what is it needed for? 06:42 - What is a UTXO? 08:29 - What price information was discovered in the Bitcoin blockchain? 10:17 - How was it found? 10:17 - What are some other interesting things that have been found in the "heat-maps" of the data? 31:32 - How could this discovery be used in the future? 32:54 - Can you see the Hodl-waves in the data? 47:34 - What are some of the more important things to focus on in Bitcoin? BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. UTXO.live to view the heatmaps. Daniel Hinton's Twitter. Steve Jeffress's Twitter. A paper describing the UTXOracle: A Decentralized Approach to the Oracle Problem. Daniel's education Website: RunBitcoin.org. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts.  SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River Toyota Linkedin Marketing Solutions Fidelity Efani Shopify NDTCO Fundrise Wise NetSuite TurboTax Vacasa NerdWallet Babbel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get back to basics on the show with Dan who answers some fundamental questions about DeFi and what it means to actually be a decentralized protocol. What are the threats to DeFi and how can we build a great decentralized future.

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Topics Covered

 

0:00 Intro

3:34 Let's Talk About DeFi

8:09 Intro To Dan

10:51 What About DeFi is Broken?

15:05 Why is DeFi Vulnerable?

17:23 What is an Oracle?

20:12 What if Chainlink Goes Down?

27:08 What Does it Mean To Be DeFi?

33:17 What Apps Are Actually Decentralized?

41:15 How Dependancy Free Apps Emerge

45:36 Solving the Liquidity Issue

47:57 Bring Your Own Oracle

54:36 Is Orcale Free The Future?

59:35 Closing and Disclaimers

 

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Resources:

 

Dan Elitzer

https://twitter.com/delitzer 

 

Why DeFi is Broken and How to Fix It, Pt 1: Oracle-Free Protocols

https://www.nascent.xyz/idea/why-defi-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it-pt-1-oracle-free-protocols 

 

Some of Dan’s favorites:

Panoptic - https://twitter.com/Panoptic_xyz?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor 

 

Timeless - https://twitter.com/Timeless_Fi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor 

 

Blend by Blur - https://twitter.com/blur_io?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor 

 

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Is the Merge Priced In? The Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Merge looms around the corner, but how do the markets feel about it?

Ryan Berckmans and Hal Press have a mutually bullish discussion about the Ethereum network today, tomorrow, and long-term. They're both bullish ETH, but differ on how it's going to play out.

This is our favorite kind of debate. 

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29:23 Risks and Catalysts
36:10 Structural Significance
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59:00 Store of Value
1:09:45 The Flippening
1:18:00 Price Predictions

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Hal Press 
https://twitter.com/NorthRockLP

Ryan Berckmans
https://twitter.com/ryanberckmans

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In this episode of This Week in Climate Startups, Molly sits down with Fleur Heyns of Proof of Impact about how to measure, verify, and analyze ESG & impact data. We discuss the current pain points for investors (11:20), how blockchains can interact with real-world assets (21:15), ESG regulation (34:16) and more!

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(34:16) How much will the future regulatory atmosphere affect or improve their business in the US? ESG strategy

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Stefan Ionescu is a Founder of Reflexer Labs, the team behind the RAI stablecoin (or is it fair to even call it a stablecoin? Tune in to find out!)

Like all our AMAs, the interview is live and incorporates questions from our Inner Circle Discord and live YouTube Chat. These are hosted the 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month, so mark your calendars, tune in, and ask questions!
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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: What is a Discrete Log Contract (DLC) How is this different than other smart contract platforms like Root Stock (RSK) What does this mean long term How does this apply to the Lightning Network What does this mean for Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) How do Oracles work with DLCs BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Pierre Rochard's Twitter Ben Carman's Twitter An article talking more about DLCs Examples of DLCs that are being tested on the Bitcoin blockchain Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River Toyota Linkedin Marketing Solutions Fidelity Efani Shopify NDTCO Fundrise Wise NetSuite TurboTax Vacasa NerdWallet Babbel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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July 27, 2020

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Joey Krug was doing DeFi before they called it DeFi. He's the co-founder of Augur, an investor at Pantera, an early supporter of Ethereum. 

What did we cover? Ethereum, Oracles, DeFi, Bitcoin, Chainlink, Ampleforth, Memes, Risk, Triple Point Asset, YFI, Scaling...what didn't we cover!

After the convo, Joey said we asked the best questions of any podcast he's been on. Maybe it felt that way because we we're speaking the same language: this DeFi is eating the world. 

This is Investing in DeFi with Joey Krug. 

We cover:

• Joey's investment thesis for crypto
• How to invest in DeFi
• Yield farming a gimmick?
• Is AMPL for real?
• DeFi oracles (and ChainLink!)
• Excited about Augur v2?
• A 100 Gwei world
• Is ETH a triple point asset?
• BTC or ETH?
• The next DeFi hack

Join us next Monday for a fresh episode!

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Resources discussed:

• (Listen) ETH as a triple point asset - ep 4
• (Link) Ampleforth geyser
• (Link) Augur V2 release
• (Link) Matic network (scaling Ethereum)

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