Episodes
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
How will digital collectibles affect film production and fan engagement? Paul Wight (formerly known as The Big Show) and entrepreneur Neil Stevenson-Moore join HackerNoon founder David Smooke to discuss ComicCon, hotel pseudonyms, GenZeroes, Netflix trends, the high probability of alien life, and more on the HackerNoon podcast.
- The Big Show Used to Stay in Hotels as Richard Kimble From "The Fugitive"
- Tech Shortcuts in SciFi Storytelling: "Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact Pretty Quick"
- How Netflix Could Use NFTs and Why ComicCon Calls Them Digital Collectibles
- What Would The Big Show Would Tell Aliens About Humanity?
- The Big Show Wishes He Wrestled as Paul Wight, and More Character IP Ownership Insights
- FULL INTERVIEW WITH PAUL WIGHT, NEAL STEVENSON-MOORE AND DAVID SMOOKE
Learn more about his new project GenZeroes: https://www.genzeroes.com/
Learn more about HackerNoon! https://hackernoon.com
And about the host --- HackerNoon Founder & CEO David Smooke --- https://hackernoon.com/about/David
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
A Gaming Metaverse on The Horizon
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Meet us in your favorite gaming metaverse This Week On Planet Internet! Limarc Ambalina, Jeferson Borba, and Amy Tom debate about what gaming metaverse was the best, the future of metaverses, and delicious metaverse news. 👅
🌏 THIS WEEK ON PLANET INTERNET:
- How do you make money in the metaverse? 💰 (01:00)
- What were Limarc, Jeferson, and Amy's introductions to the metaverse? 🍼 (05:47)
- What causes people to buy things from a metaverse? 💸 (10:04)
- What's going on in the Fortnite world? Why did it work? ✅ (14:25)
- Does Facebook count as a metaverse? Hint: if not now, maybe soon 😱 (19:33)
- Facebook owns one of the biggest VR companies in the world: how will this affect the evolution of the metaverse? 👓 (23:05)
- If we could bring back one metaverse each, which would they be? 🔁 (31:31)
🗒️ SHOW NOTES:
- Win up to $2,000 in the HackerNoon Gaming Metaverse Writing Contest: https://hackernoon.com/the-gaming-metaverse-writing-contest-j5737sx
- Raven Heart's HackerNoon story about Sandbox: https://hackernoon.com/why-owning-land-on-the-sandbox-could-make-you-rich
- Our very own Limarc Ambalina's story about Fortnite: https://hackernoon.com/how-fortnite-became-the-modern-day-community-center-dse2376n
- "Facebook Is The King Of The Metaverse" on Seeking Alpha: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4450274-facebook-is-the-king-of-the-metaverse
- ⚠️ "How You Can Help People in Afghanistan": https://time.com/6090921/how-to-help-afghanistan-people/
- ⚠️ Donate to this GoFundMe for an Afghanistan Rescue Mission: https://www.gofundme.com/f/flyaway-emergency-afghan-rescue-mission?member=13260717&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
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Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Leaving Bezos in Space Makes the World a Better Place
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Natasha Nel, Amy Tom, and Ellen Stevens are talking about BIG MONEY. 🤑 Yeah - we're talking layoffs and payoffs at Booking.com and American Airlines, the massive petition to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth, and the fallout from China's ban on crypto mining.
THIS WEEK ON PLANET INTERNET 🌎
- Ellen weighs in on the latest American Airlines debacle and the "not so good optics" of the situation ✈️ (01:45)
- Booking.com's hot mess - more rich stealing from the poor despite #globalpandemicvibes 💸 (04:23)
- Should Bezos should be left in space? 👩🚀 (06:53)
- Amy talks about the disparity of power and money ⚖️ (11:10)
- What's the latest with Bitcoin and China's crypto-mining crackdown? ⛏ (14:39)
- The podcast's resident "Tinder superuser" talks about the pandemic-altered online dating landscape 👩❤️👨 (18:12)
- Natasha kicks off HackerNoon Reviews with Polar Vantage M2 Sports Watch (22:18) and Ellen's article: Biohack a Super You ⌚️ (24:59)
- Amy, of course, is on a cleaning hype with an in-wall vacuum (26:21), her TikTok tip of the week (27:12), and a passwordless future 🧹 (28:10)
- Ellen reminds everyone that it's okay to cover your webcam 📹 (32:55)
SHOWNOTES 🗒️
- American Airlines CEO casually took home $10 mil USD in compensation last year - https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008968725/american-airlines-passengers-could-be-in-for-a-summer-of-delays-and-cancellation
- Italy announced they're investigating Booking.com over suspicion of $180 million dollar tax evasion - https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/booking-com-dodged-180-million-of-taxes-italian-police-say
- Dutch politicians noticed Booking.com's CEO Glenn Fogel and CFO David Goulden had super casuallycompensated themselves over $32 million - https://www.reuters.com/technology/bookingcom-repay-dutch-covid-19-aid-anp-2021-06-04/
- Bye-bye Bezos. There is a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to leave Jeff Bezos in space - https://www.geekwire.com/2021/leave-jeff-bezos-space-way-petitions-attract-100000-signatures/
- Bitcoin drops following China's ban on crypto mining - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/21/bitcoin-btc-price-drops-on-china-crypto-mining-crackdown.html
- "Tinder wants you to actually talk to people before you match" from the Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/22/22538970/tinder-video-explore-tab-hot-takes-launch
- The Elimination of Cybersecurity's Status Quo – Passwords by Misan Etchie on HackerNoon - https://hackernoon.com/the-elimination-of-cybersecuritys-status-quo---passwords-2l1f379d
- Check out Ellen's article about Biohacking - https://hackernoon.com/biohack-a-super-you-part-1-je1l34uw
- Get up to speed on the HackerNoon contests & get some free HN gear - https://hackernoon.com/u/hackernooncontests
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Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Creating a Multi-Cloud Strategy with Mark Gamble
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Amy Tom talks to Mark Gamble, the Product & Solutions Marketing Director at Couchbase, about data-for-good initiatives and creating a Multi-Cloud Strategy.
In this episode of The HackerNoon Podcast:
- Mark talks about the data-for good and the initiatives he is passionate about (01:57)
- Data visualization is a skill (08:31)
- Multi-Cloud vs. Hybrid-Cloud (12:30)
- Does Amazon/AWS do this internationally as well? (21:23)
- How do the Kubernetes Containers connect across multiple platforms? (25:30)
- As a CTO, do I have to worry about the connection layer between clouds? (28:50)
- Is it difficult to get my Couchbase database to connect with another AWS location? (30:00)
- Where will Multi-Cloud go in the next 5 years? (35:20)
Connect Mark Gamble:
- Email him at mark.gamble@couchbase.com
Shownotes:
- Learn more about Couchbase: https://www.couchbase.com/
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
How Many Devs Does It Take to Fly on Mars?
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
What's David's hot take on Facebook's pivot to audio? Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake! ALSO: are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? 😱 Shoot the shit with Hacker Noon's Editors —
This Week on Planet Internet:
- Props to the 12k open source devs Github says contributed to Ingenuity's maiden voyage! (0:33)
- Hands up if you think the Mars Helicopter video is a deep fake (3:52)
- Catch David's Hot Take on Facebook's pivot to audio (06:18)
- Hey WTF happened to Libra? (07:23)
- Are kids growing up during a global panini more likely to get face tattoos? (08:50)
- Is Substack's margin really Facebook's opportunity? (11:03)
- Find out how Facebook's moderators accidentally helped Hacker Noon sell more t-shirts (15:46)
- Is any system that claims to be blockchain voting "neither blockchain, nor voting?" (17:13)
- Do you stan #decentralization? (22:42)
- What worldwide crypto adoption sounds like (25:23)
- Oh hey, happy 4/20, everybody! (30:12)
Read the tech stories talked about this podcast:
1. Open source goes to Mars by Nat Friedman for The GitHub Blog: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/
2. Five takeaways about Facebook's pivot to audio by Casey Newton from Platformer: https://www.platformer.news/p/5-takeaways-about-facebooks-pivot
3. 3 Reasons Why Blockchain Won't #ReleaseTheKraken: An Interview with John Sebes of TrustTheVote.org by Benjamin Bateman for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/3-reasons-why-blockchain-wont-releasethekraken-an-interview-with-john-sebes-of-trustthevoteorg-713i339y
4. Cannabis banking act passes U.S. House with bipartisan support by Matt Burns (lol) for Tech Crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/cannabis-banking-act-passes-u-s-house-with-bipartisan-support/
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Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Does a Bear Shitcoin in the Woods?
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Has the market cap of cryptocurrencies really exceeded that of Apple? Should you have started buying shitcoins in 2013? Does Microsoft really want to acquire Discord? Do we still trust Fitbit?
This Week on Planet Internet:
- HackerNoon CEO David Smooke asks: if it was yours, would you sell Discord to Microsoft? From (00:29)
- Editors Limarc Ambalina and Amy Tom debate the overall awfulness of Teams (00:40)
- David says "market crap" around (05:28) and nobody even hears it
- Everyone decides categorically that Natasha Nel should stop telling people people the crypto bubble's gonna burst (07:22)
- Check in on Limarc's dogecoin earnings (09:32)
- Do a team vibe check on Fitbit (11:10)
- Remind ourselves that if you're not paying, you're the product (12:51)
- DRINK EVERY TIME DAVID SAYS SHITCOIN (16:37)
Read the tech news stories mentioned in this show:
- Why Microsoft Wants Discord by Tom Warren for The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/26/22352028/microsoft-discord-acquisition-analysis-report
- Cryptocurrency Market Overtakes Apple — The World's Most Valuable Company — In Market Capitalization by Shivdeep Dhaliwal for Benzinga: https://www.benzinga.com/node/20613282
- Think You Know Why Google Acquired Fitbit? Think Again! by Haris Shahid for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/think-you-know-why-google-acquired-fitbit-think-again-w4h332n
- Mastering Shitcoins II - The Poor Man's Guide to Getting Rich by Daniel Jeffries for Hacker Noon: https://hackernoon.com/mastering-shitcoins-ii-the-poor-mans-guide-to-getting-rich-nvo33j3
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Decentralization Debate Club: Blockchain, Autonomy, and DeFi
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Has what started with Satoshi spun off into an hype-driven, ICO-indulgent startup industry of solutions for nothing? Or is blockchain technology and the mass decentralization it makes possible still worth the hype? Answered in 5 minutes by two top Hacker Noon Contributors — Mario Alves and Vladimiros Peilivanidis — tune in for a Decentralization Debate Club episode with Natasha Nel.
With thanks to our 2020 Noonies award sponsors: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills.
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Utsav Jaiswal hosts Diwaker Gupta, Head of Engineering at Blockstack, Aaron Blankstein, Engineer at Blockstack, Maurice Herlihy, Engineer and Advisor at Algorand and Alberto Cuesta Canada, Lead Blockchain Instructor at BeyondSkills and a Hacker Noon contributor to talk everything about Clarity, a new smart contracting language. Hacker Noon’s best contributing writers discuss the need of new programming language by Blockstack and Algorand, how feasible it will be, what improvements and adjustments of Clarity to the existing ecosystem and more.
Continue reading about blockstack, programming, decentralization and smart contracts on Hacker Noon.
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Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Bradley Kam, Co-Founder, and CRO at Unstoppable Domains, joins Utsav Jaiswal and Arthur Tkachenko on the Hacker Noon Podcast to discuss how decentralization enables censorship-resistant peer to peer communication.
Bradley discusses how decentralized registries such as their (dot)crypto lives outside the DNS naming system and how it cannot be pulled down by vested interests. He also shares his opinion on decentralization and security.
Bradley Kam’s speaks on the bylines of the launch of Dchat, which allows users to encrypt and store messages without the involvement of third parties. Dchat integrates cryptocurrency wallets and a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage network in order to securely store chat messages that are 100% controlled by users.
Continue reading about blockchain, security, crypto and startups on Hacker Noon.
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Thursday Jun 25, 2020
“I Was Making More Money Than God” - John McAfee on the Hacker Noon Podcast
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
John McAfee talks about making more money than God on the Hacker Noon podcast hosted by David Smooke. https://podcast.hackernoon.com/
McAfee starts off with the impact of one's childhood and how it shapes perspectives. He shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and what it takes to become a multimillionaire. John McAfee also provides a take on the number one danger of the modern Internet and presents an opinion on the Black Lives Matter movement.
McAfee shares anecdotes from his life, how he became the self proclaimed richest man in South Virginia before hitting 18; his recent escape from the United States, his first job at General Electric, where he learned programming and the importance of math in life.
"I'm the best coder alive"
"Don't schedule an interview with this guy again, he's too smart"
- John McAfee
Continue reading about entrepreneurship, business, startup lessons, and privacy on Hacker Noon.
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Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Juan Benet, CEO at Protocol Labs, founder of IPFS and Filecoin, joins Utsav Jaiswal and Vaibhav Saini, a Hacker Noon contributing writer, on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss everything Web 3.0. They talk about the lifespan of new applications and protocols, factors influencing the growth rate of application technologies, the history of cloud development, the philosophy, and as well technology behind IPFS and benchmark of success for Filecoin. Juan also presents his opinion on why human rights ought to be digital and discusses the power dynamics of technology in the era of global connectivity.
Check related reads on Web 3.0 and IPFS from Hacker Noon contributing writer Vaibhav Saini.
Understanding IPFS in Depth Series: A Beginner to Advanced Guide
10+ Resources Every IPFS Developer Should Know About
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Thursday May 28, 2020
Trump vs. The Internet
Thursday May 28, 2020
Thursday May 28, 2020
What just happened to the internet!? Did our President just sign an executive order that forces social media platforms to be his personal mega phone? Hacker Noon CPO Dane Lyons and CEO David Smooke discuss the possible implications on 45's attempt to change internet law. Some sources discussed in this episode:
- Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
- Trump's Tweet About Mail in Ballot Fraud
- Twitter's Fact Checking Page
- FCC's Official Statement on Feasibility of Executive Order
- ACLU with the Burn
Read more about Net Neutrality, Twitter, Censorship, Fact Checking, and the Internet on HackerNoon.com.
Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
CEO of Open Orchard, Ex Head of Communications & Advocacy at Steemit Andrew Levine joins Utsav Jaiswal to discuss whither blockchain, what inspired Andrew and his team at Open Orchard to start their project on launching new Blockchain Koinos, the driving philosophy as well as the underlying technology. Andrew talks about the differences between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hiveblocks and Koinos Blockchains, how the Koinos will enable developers build their own dApps faster. Community's questions asked via #HackerNoonKoinos, related to explaining Blockchain to those not in the know, how success and knowledge are not as intertwined, the role of open source community and technology stalwarts in the adoption of niche technologies, and why the best way to boost progress in the world is to make it easier for everyone to launch more powerful applications.
Check related reads on Hacker Noon:
Inside Tron's Steem Takeover Attempt and the Birth of the Hive Blockchain
https://hackernoon.com/tagged/open-source
https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain
Thursday Apr 11, 2019
E37 - Distributed Ledger Tech with David Sønstebø, Co-Founder of IOTA
Thursday Apr 11, 2019
Thursday Apr 11, 2019
Episode 37 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with David Sønstebø of IOTA, a permission-less distributed ledger for a new economy.
This episode of Hacker Noon is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Discover why developers love DigitalOcean and get started with a free $50 credit at https://do.co/hackernoon
In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews David Sønstebø, the co-founder of IOTA, you get to learn about distributed technologies, edge computing and what is happening in crypto today!
“If you look at how much computational power something like AWS or Azure Microsoft, if you look at how much they have, it sounds impressive, and I’m not saying it isn’t, but when you compare it to the idle amount of computation that exists in all the phones, all the laptops, and all the desktops around the globe it pales in comparison. With this kind of software you can unlock this decentralized AWS, so to speak, that also takes into account the edge. And then of course, your laptop, when it’s idle, you can actually make money from it.” — David Sønstebø
Production and music by Derek Bernard — haberdasherband.com/production
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Episode 35 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Karim Sabba, French entrepreneur and founder of Paris Blockchain Week. https://pbwsummit.com Use code: HACKERNOON30 for 30% off.
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In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Karim Sabba, French entrepreneur and founder of Paris Blockchain Week.
"I jumped into this new ecosystem where I saw returns that I had never seen in my life. And that was what caught me in. That was the bait, and it was a good bait. But afterwards I started to dive into all those projects and I remember, I don't want to name it because my apprehension of this was a bit weird, but basically I saw this project and for a long time I thought it was a scam, and maybe it is, but still they showed that you can technically be able to open bank accounts for unbanked people without them having to read or be tech-savvy. And that was my 'aha!' moment." - Karim Sabba
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Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
E34 - Tokenized Equity with Josh Stein from Harbor
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Episode 34 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Josh Stein of Harbor, a platform for tokenizing investments.
In this episode Trent Lapinskiinterviews Josh Stein from Harbor, a platform for tokenizing investments.
“When we tokenize these shares (using Blockchain) we’re just taking it out of the back office of the company. We’re recording the shares on this giant excel spreadsheet in the sky we call Ethereum, or Blockchain. But it’s got these great properties, which is that it’s public, so you know that if this smart contract represents shares, there’s no double counting of shares. And, you no longer have to go to the company to record the transfer of the shares. Buyer and seller can find each other digitally, they can transact digitally on the Blockchain, and in essence both of them are writing a new entry to the books of records in the company and they’re both signing it digitally.” — Josh Stein
Production and music by Derek Bernard — haberdasherband.com/production
Host: Trent Lapinski — https://trentlapinski.com
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
E31 - Speaking Of Crypto with Shannon Grinnell
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Episode 31 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview Shannon Grinnell, host of Speaking of Crypto Podcast.
In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Shannon Grinnell where they discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and Shannon’s background. You can also check out Trent being interviewed by Shannon on her podcast, where they discuss crypto visionaries, tech for Trump, and why Apple bites.
“I thought I would do a podcast on Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies but it ended up being more on blockchain technologies because the people that I met were really focused on building something with this really incredible technology.” — Shannon Grinnell
Music by Derek Bernard — haberdasherband.com/production
Host: Trent Lapinski — https://trentlapinski.com
Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
Episode 28 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Wayne Chang and Gregory Rocco of Alpine Intel, a new unit within ConsenSys.
In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Wayne Chang and Gregory Rocco from Alpine Intel to discuss bringing blockchain solutions to enterprise companies.
“Alpine is a new unit within ConsenSys. We were effectively the cryptoeconomics team at Token Foundry and we found a lot of demand for our services, and basically we want to build these new economies.”—Wayne Chang
“What we look to do is engineer value rather than create speculative value. We’re personally not affected by crypto winter. As Wayne mentioned, we’re focused a lot on enterprise too and seeing where the value can be driven in enterprises.” — Gregory Rocco
“The combination of a global computer, smart contracts, tokens, all these things are going to help drive the transaction cost down of doing business, and you’re going to unlock new kinds of transactions that are going to form new markets that we couldn’t even imagine before.” — Wayne Chang
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
E27 - Building The Impossible via Business Acceleration with Cameron Chell
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Episode 27 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Cameron Chell, Chairman and Co-Founder of ICOx Innovations, and co-creator of Kodak Coin.
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In this episode Trent Lapinski and Cameron Chell discuss bringing blockchain technology to enterprise companies we already know and trust, and what it is going to take to move from centralized systems to decentralized systems.
“Our thinking, yet to be proven, is that we go to these established brands who are already transacting in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and they can utilize a coin or the crypto infrastructure that can either reduce their costs or increase customer attraction.”
“Ultimately, society and certainly all economics run on trust, there is no other currency other than trust. When you have a system that can replace trust or create an environment where you can transact in a trustless way, the impact globally to me is beyond measure.” — Cameron Chell
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
E26 - The Industry Interoperability of Fluree with Brian Platz
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Episode 26 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Brian Platz, Co-CEO of Fluree.
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In this episode Trent Lapinski and Brian Platz discuss database blockchain technology and the variety of approaches to building decentralized applications.
“I think a lot starts changing when you can actually trust the data.”
“With Fluree, you can actually grab the exact version of the database that was being used for that integration at exactly 12:01 AM and 0.23 milliseconds, and you can actually see and know what was in there, figure out what broke, and fix it.” —Brian Platz
Monday Feb 11, 2019
E25 - Intelligent Investing In the Blockchain Space with Tomer Federman
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Episode 25 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Tomer Federman, CEO and founder of Federman Capital.
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In this episode Trent Lapinski and Tomer Federman discuss why he left Facebook to start his own crypto and blockchain investment fund.
“I think this technology is truly revolutionary, is going to disrupt the financial ecosystem, and is going to have major impact across entire industries in years to come.”
“Crypto shouldn’t be about getting rich quickly. It should be about creating meaningful products that solve real world needs, and address real pain points.”
“If I’m right and blockchain is going to be so transformative, it’s obviously going to generate significant returns for investors who invest wisely. The ability for people to transact with no intermediaries involved, and for the transactions to be recorded in an open way and settled almost immediately, the opportunities for building on top of the technology is just mind blowing.” — Tomer Federman
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
E24 - Effectively Marketing Blockchain Technology with Erica Blair
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Episode 24 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Erica Blair, founder of Blockchain Branding.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Erica Blair discuss branding, messaging, and what takes to effectively market a blockchain technology company.
“I see cryptocurrencies more generally as a broad political philosophy about what it is you find important in the World.”
“Crytpocurrency is an entire governance model of saying this how decisions get made, this is how how value gets distributed.”
“We are changing the World and we’d like you to join us, oh and by the way, we’re doing it with these tools and this technology that was never available before, which is why what we're doing is so revolutionary.” — Erica Blair
Monday Jan 28, 2019
E21 - Hacking The Tokenization of Assets with Danny An of TrustToken
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Episode 21 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Danny An, CEO and Co-Founder of TrustToken.
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In this episode Trent Lapinski and Danny An discuss tokenized assets, stable coins, True USD, and cryptocurrency.
“Compliance is definitely a top priority for us.”
“True USD is meant to be as regulatory compliant as possible. We recently published a stable coin code of ethics, where we said, ‘hey, here is some of the things we learned about creating a stable coin, and some of the past lessons we learned historically.’”
“We’re never actually going to prevent redemptions, because we think a stable coin is only good as its ability to redeem the underlying US dollars. We said we would never influence the price of a stable coin purposely by offering discounts. We will continue to be as regulatory compliant as possible and sustain the stable coin so it is not knocked down by miscompliance.”— Danny An
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
E20 - Hacking The Cannabis Industry via Blockchain with Sumit Mehta
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Episode 20 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Sumit Mehta, CEO and founder of Mazakali, a Cannabis Investment Banking Platform.
In this episode Trent Lapinskiand Sumit Mehta discuss the emerging cannabis industry, the science behind cannabis’s medicinal benefits, and Sumit’s new blockchain based cannabis investment platform.
“If we looked back at 1935, and if we were having this conversation then, we might find it fairly ludicrous if someone suggested that we elect a governmental body into power that would put us in cages for having a relationship with a plant.”
“When we begin to move into a World where we see all of the benefits around our lives, around our communities, around our animals, around our plants, and around our planet that this plant is going to be able to provide I am very excited and very optimistic to be a part of that future; because it is coming, and it is coming quicker then most of us are likely prepared for.” —Sumit Mehta
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
E16 - Building A Movement Through Emerging Tech with Enigma's Tor Bair
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Episode 16 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Tor Bair from Enigma.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Tor Bair discuss privacy, blockchain, the problems with the centralized tech industry, security, and data science.
“I don’t want to get too much into why truth is broken right now in the tech space, that’s a whole other can of worms, but I think we can all appreciate that it is getting harder and harder to know what is trustable.”
“The moment we start believing there is no other way, then it is just a race to the bottom. There will only be two companies in the World, and that’s if we’re lucky. There may only be one.”
“We have to be building a movement at the same time we’re building the technology. I think we need to be funding these kinds of solutions like this is the apocalypse event for the Internet.” —Tor Bair
Tuesday Dec 11, 2018
E15 - Emerging Technologies with Venture Capitalist Julian Moncada
Tuesday Dec 11, 2018
Tuesday Dec 11, 2018
Episode 15 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Venture Capitalist Julian Moncada.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Julian Moncada discuss emerging technologies such as blockchain, augmented reality, virtual reality, to artificial intelligence.
“I think that is really important that if you’re a hacker or developer that you balance the excitement you have around a new technology, around a new potential problem to solve, with the opportunity in the market and building a sustainable business.”
“If you build one without the other, if you have a great business plan, or you have some amazing idea but its not feasible, technically you’re not going to get very far.”
“I also think the inverse is true, you can build amazing tech, but if you haven’t thought through the market for it, or the value proposition it offers. Whether its a market we’re use to or whether it is a completely new market that doesn’t mimic anything today, if you had to make a call on that side of your business that can be very challenging as well.” —Julian Moncada
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
E14 - Blockchain and Future Tech from the Crow's Nest with Daniel Jefferies
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Episode 14 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Science Fiction author, and futurist Daniel Jeffries.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Daniel Jeffries discuss cryptocurrency, blockchain, AI, future technology, and philosophy.
“We need to stop throwing the damn baby out with the bathwater, and assume that decentralized everything just works because it’s decentralized.”
“These things that we have now, they are still in their earliest phase. We barely understand them. They are going to evolve into something so mind boggling different from what we have today.”
“We have to look to each structure, and abstract out the things that work and create new mitigation systems that solve the problems of the existing ones, and when we make the next iteration we stand on the shoulders of giants.” — Daniel Jeffries
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
E12 - Building an Effective Crypto Product with Miles Paschini from B21
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
Episode 12: An interview with entrepreneur Miles Paschini from B21.
In this episode Trent Lapinski and Miles Paschini discuss what it takes to build an effective crypto product.
“In bear markets the good people go build products, and in the bull markets people speculate.”
“Once you get to critical mass, theres a lot of friction that exists between the existing banking World, and the emerging crypto payments World.”
“We’re all in, we believe that blockchain is the future. We believe that investing in the alternative asset class of crypto should be a part of people’s future portfolios. We need to get to a point as an industry where we can point to things and say, ‘hey this is a productized example where the blockchain is better’ and it is being used at scale. But, remember you’re building a community.” — Miles Paschini
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Episode 8: In this episode we sit down with Garry Tan and Brett Gibson of Initialized Capital and discuss emerging technologies such as cryptocurrency, blockchain, and what sets them apart from other venture capital firms.
"People are conditioned for 200 milliseconds at this point. Even waiting 5-seconds for a little spinner is not going to cut it."- Garry Tan
"Privacy is going to be a big deal for the blockchain and crypto technologies." - Brett Gibson
"It really is about those users, and what's their experience. We want to help other fellow hackers who are builders." - Garry Tan
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Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
E07 - Crypto Unchained with Ralph Liu
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Episode 7: An interview with Ralph Liu, CEO and Founder of MuleChain.com. In this episode we discuss blockchain, supply chain management, logistics, and the delivery industry.
“We are going to disrupt the entire logistics industry…This concept is what I call convenience assistance services.“—Ralph Liu
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
E05 - Health Insurance and Blockchain with Nick Soman
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Episode 5: An interview with Nick Soman, CEO of Decent.com, on how to fix the healthcare industry using blockchain technology.
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
E04 - Decentralizing the Cloud with Greg Osuri
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Episode 4: An interview with Greg Osuri founder of http://Akash.network and Overclock Labs. In this episode we discuss DevOps, and what it takes to scale and run a decentralized infrastructure network.
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
E03 - The Truth About Crypto PR with Kelley Weaver
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Episode 3: An interview with Kelley Weaver, CEO of https://www.melrosepr.com/. In this episode we discuss cryptocurrency, blockchain, marketing, PR techniques, and life hacks.
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
E02 - The Maturing Crypto Market with Grace Rachmany
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
On the second episode of the Hacker Noon Podcast, hosted by Trent Lapinski, Trent talked to Grace Rachmany, author of “So You’ve Got A DAO… Management for the 21st Century” and founder of IWriteICOWhitepapers.
In this episode Trent and Grace discuss the current state of the crypto market, the maturation of ICOs, decentralized autonomous organizations, and what it takes to be a leader in the 21st century.