Blockchain Curated - Learn Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency From Investors + Experts

Blockchain Curated - Learn Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency From Investors + Experts

Blockchain Curated is making the best content in the blockchain and bitcoin industry more accessible to the world. We spend a significant amount of time sourcing the top 1% of articles to convert into weekly podcasts in partnership with authors. These podcasts will **always be free** to our listeners. We feature articles that are written by industry veterans and leaders that are commonly cited, and make cryptocurrency easier to understand. Blockchain and cryptocurrency concepts have a notoriously high learning curve, which is why **we rigorously curate only the best articles**. The articles we curate are converted into audio and read aloud by a real human being, not a mechanical-sounding text-to-speech robot. Our articles have featured founders, advisors, and contributors to organizations including Coinbase, Ethereum, Polychain Capital, Digital Currency Group and more.

Episodes

How Crypto Investment Fund Manager Nick Tomaino Evaluates Tokens

February 4, 2018 • 11 mins
In this episode featuring **Crypto Venture Fund Co-Founder Nick Tomaino**, you’ll learn how his $26M fund, 1Confirmation, decides how to deploy their capital into blockchain investments.
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We already know blockchain's killer apps

December 4, 2017 • 39 mins
In this episode featuring Software Engineer **Haseeb Qureshi** , you’ll learn about the four potential killer apps of blockchain technology: dark web and black market payments, digital gold, payments (macro and micro), and tokenization.
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A beginner's guide to Bitcoin Cash

November 29, 2017 • 6 mins
In this episode featuring Scalar Capital Co-Founder and Managing Partner **Linda Xie** , you’ll learn: * The basics of Bitcoin Cash is, and how it compares to Bitcoin * How and why Bitcoin Cash was created * The differences between the scaling approaches of Bitcoin Cash (on chain) and Bitcoin (off chain) * How forks like Bitcoin Cash allow cryptocurrencies to experiment when groups of people cannot reach consensus on conte...
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Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation

October 29, 2017 • 6 mins
In this episode featuring **Albert Wenger **of Union Square Ventures, you’ll learn: * How Bitcoin and other decentralized blockchains will drive the decentralization of the internet * How blockchain protocols provide incentives for the creation and governance of technologies that were previously largely unmonetized public resources * Examples of how companies such as Sia and Filecoin are using blockchains to fund their deve...
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A Beginners Guide to Ethereum

October 23, 2017 • 8 mins
In this episode featuring early Coinbase employee **Linda Xie** , you’ll learn: * What Ethereum is, and how it compares to Bitcoin * What a ‘smart contract’ is, and why programmable digital money matters * Some of the most interesting use cases of Ethereum including identity, scarce resource markets, next-generation social media, and more * How fundraising using Ethereum ERC-20 tokens is providing fuel for talented enginee...
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Traditional Asset Tokenization - What happens when the multi-trillion $ asset markets meet cryptocurrency?

October 19, 2017 • 13 mins
* In this episode featuring **Stephen McKeon** , you’ll learn: * Why in the coming years, assets will become increasing tokenized via blockchain protocols such as Ethereum * How the tokenization of traditional assets such as fine art or commercial buildings will unlock massively valuable new markets for trading * How the concept of asset ownership may evolve in ways not yet imaginable * How asset tokenization is al...
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Explain Bitcoin Like I'm 5

October 15, 2017 • 8 mins
In this episode featuring **Nik Custodio** , you'll learn: * How Bitcoin works at a fundamental level, ideal for beginners to cryptocurrency * Examples of previous ways of exchanging value before Bitcoin was invented, and the disadvantages of them compared to Bitcoin * Why it was difficult to exchange digital scarcity prior to the invention of Bitcoin * How Bitcoin enables trustless exchange
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Atomic Swaps

October 11, 2017 • 8 mins
In this episode featuring Bitcoin developer **Jimmy Song** , you’ll learn: * What an atomic swap is, how it affects the future of Bitcoin, and why it is useful * How an atomic swap works, with a real-world example * Why trusted third parties are security holes, and how atomic swaps remove the need for them * Pros and cons of on-chain atomic swaps compared to off-chain swaps such as the Lightning Network * What some of th...
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Why Decentralized Exchange Protocols Matter

October 8, 2017 • 8 mins
In this episode featuring **Fred Ehrsam** , Co-Founder of Coinbase, you’ll learn: * What a decentralized exchange (DEX) is, how they work, what types of applications can be built on top of decentralized exchanges, and how they compare to a centralized exchange * The benefits that decentralized exchanges can uniquely offer that centralized exchanges cannot, as well as some of the current drawbacks of decentralized exchanges *...
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The Economics of Blockchain Protocols

October 6, 2017 • 20 mins
In this episode featuring **Primoz Kordez** , you’ll learn: * What determines the value of a cryptocurrency * The differences between the two main types of cryptocurrencies we’ve seen in the past two years: cryptocurrencies that can be divided into currencies with the function of means of payment or store of value, and currencies with utility value * How blockchain protocols will give rise to decentralized systems in which i...
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The Fifth Protocol

September 23, 2017 • 4 mins
In this episode featuring AngelList and CoinList Co-Founder **Naval Ravikant** , you’ll learn: * Why machines could be a major catalyst for Bitcoin protocol adoption * Why it has taken so long to create the internet’s first protocol for exchanging value, and why it’s here to stay * Why Bitcoin has an advantage as an exchange of value protocol versus incumbents * Why dozens of app coins could proliferate on networks that mu...
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Crypto Tokens – A Breakthrough In Open Network Design

September 23, 2017 • 13 mins
In this episode featuring Andressen Horowitz General Partner **Chris Dixon** , you’ll learn: * How crypto tokens can aid in reversing the trend of internet centralization * Why tokens benefit their users, developers, investors, and entire open source initiatives * Why centralized networks won out versus open networks in Web 2.0, and why crypto tokens may shift the tide back to open networks in the future * How Ethereum is ...
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Cryptocurrency’s Netscape Moment

September 23, 2017 • 8 mins
In this episode featuring **Elad Gil** , you’ll learn: * Why now is the starting gun for broad investment in cryptocurrencies including hedge funds, venture funds, and average consumers * How the current 2017 run-up in cryptocurrency prices and interest feels similar to the bubble in 2013, but how this time it’s different * Why the “store of value” use case of Bitcoin is becoming real * How the proliferation of blockchain-...
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How To Think About Investing In Cryptocurrency: What needs to exist

September 23, 2017 • 7 mins
In this episode featuring cryptocurrency fund manager **Ari Paul** , you’ll learn: * What investable protocols and services the world needs that are best-suited for blockchain * Why cryptocurrency is not necessarily a winner take all market * Why communities are critical to the long-term success of a cryptocurrency * How shared beliefs of crypto token communities influence development roadmaps and governance, as illustrate...
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How To Think About Investing In Cryptocurrency: Why Exceptional Opportunities Exist

September 23, 2017 • 5 mins
In this special investing episode featuring **Ari Paul** of BlockTower Capital, you’ll learn: * How to explain why cryptocurrency investment is a great opportunity * How investing in cryptocurrencies now could be compared to playing minor league basketball versus playing in the NBA * Why early investors in cryptocurrencies are rewarded for the risks they take that others may be unwilling to, and what some of those risks are...
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Cryptoeconomics 101

September 23, 2017 • 6 mins
In this episode featuring cryptocurrency venture fund founder **Nick Tomaino** , you will learn: * What ‘cryptoeconomics’ is, and why it matters to the ecosystem * The history of decentralized systems including Kazaa and Bittorrent, and why the lack of cryptoeconomic systems stifled them from thriving * How Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum protocol, is pushing the bounds of cryptoeconomics * How crypto monetary pol...
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Fat Protocols

September 23, 2017 • 7 mins
In this episode featuring **Joel Monegro** , you’ll learn: * How economic value for decentralized blockchain-based networks tends to be distributed to protocols rather than applications * Why shared data, such as user data, in decentralized systems, leads to value creation at the protocol level * Why crypto tokens are an essential incentives layer in blockchain networks * How tokens lead to a feedback loop incentivizing in...
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Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency

September 23, 2017 • 15 mins
In this episode featuring **Fred Ehrsam** , Co-Founder of Coinbase, you’ll learn: * How Ethereum is pouring rocket fuel on digital currency app development * Why no killer apps have emerged for Bitcoin beyond potentially being a store of value * Why Ethereum, with its easy to use programming language, is leading the rise of more diversified decentralized applications * Why some of the fundamental beliefs of the Bitcoin and...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Tezos

September 23, 2017 • 5 mins
In this episode featuring early Coinbase employee **Linda Xie** , you’ll learn: * What the Tezos protocol is, who the founders are, and how it compares to Ethereum * How the Tezos approach to upgrading functionality compares to blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum * How developers in the Tezos ecosystem are compensated for their code * The differences and advantages between PoW (Proof of Work) and PoS (Proof of Stake) ...
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Losing Alpha: Why Most New Crypto Funds Are a Sh*t Deal

September 23, 2017 • 14 mins
In this episode featuring **Ryan Selkis** , you will learn: * Why starting a crypto hedge fund seem like such an attractive pitch including the potential for outsized returns, a steep learning curve, and lack of yield on more traditional investment categories * Why simply outperforming a Bitcoin and Ethereum portfolio over the next 10 years will require ballsy assumptions * Why some tokens could require billions of dollars i...
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