podping

What makes the HIVE blockchain decentralised and why is Brian suing Facebook & Google?

In Conversation #71, Brian and I discussed: why decentralisation is so important to stopping online censorship, the need for peer to peer networks being established before following the value for value model, the whole story of the STEEM/HIVE saga, the global notification service called PodPing and why he is part of lawsuit suing Google & Facebook for banning cryptocurrency advertising back in 2018.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Why are Israeli's adventurous?
(8:52) - Different web versions are cows analogy
(16:07) - Censorship on the internet
(21:08) - Could V4V have worked on the early internet?
(26:50) - Is the core of decentralisation to stop censorship?
(31:52) - Trying to completely censor people is idiotic
(37:56) - STEEM's hostile takeover
(59:53) - The birth of HIVE
(1:07:00) - PodPing
(1:19:40) - The maximalist mindset
(1:25:47) - Crypto class action lawsuit
(1:34:22) - Australian law & fairness
(1:37:10) - Self representation in court
(1:41:21) - Australian cartel laws
(1:43:47) - Brian is going to pump Bitcoin by destroying social media
(1:48:49) - Where to find Brian

Connect with Brian:
HIVE: https://hive.blog/@brianoflondon
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianoflondon


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Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/
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Last night I did a marathon two hour livestream with @taskmaster4450 and @jongolson talking all about Podping and Hive. It was epic. I played a few clips from some other podcasts, that didn't work out so well as I can hear now on playback but I'll put links to the real clips below. You can watch the video on 3speak or listen to the audio either on their podcast Cryptomaniacs or here.

While we were talking I received a number of big votes on the funding proposal I have on the DHR for which I'm hugely grateful. Those put me passed the return proposal and a few minutes after the end, another one of the whales tipped me above the DHF buy back so the Podping proposal is now funded. Feel free to vote on it if you still haven't.

The point of the funding proposal is not just about money: I've detailed what I'm going to do with that and almost all of it is staying on Hive and much of it will be powered up. The other thing it does is showcase to a non Hive audience of developers and influential people in the Podcast industry, that Hive supports this project and that is hugely valuable.

Clips:

Brian has 8m Hive... and all about Dave buying and powering up Hive on Blocktrades.

Vitalik Buterin talking about discovering Podcasts during Corona lockdown.

If you derive value from my work, please consider donating some value my way. You can find all the details on the donation page.

I'm even more impressed with what the IDF did when I learned the result after I recorded the podcast, stay tuned to the end for the last word!