Episodes
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. đ
đ THIS WEEK ON PLANET INTERNET:
- How do you make money in the metaverse? đ° (01:00)
- What were Limarc, Jeferson, and Amy's introductions to the metaverse? đź (05:47)
- What causes people to buy things from a metaverse? đ¸ (10:04)
- What's going on in the Fortnite world? Why did it work? â (14:25)
- Does Facebook count as a metaverse? Hint: if not now, maybe soon đą (19:33)
- Facebook owns one of the biggest VR companies in the world: how will this affect the evolution of the metaverse? đ (23:05)
- If we could bring back one metaverse each, which would they be? đ (31:31)
đď¸ 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
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Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Big Dictator Energy
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
What happens when big corp shuts down conversation? What is Russia's deal with Sputnik exports? Crypto in Africa â equalizing force, or daydream? Join Linh, Natasha, Amy, Limarc and Damian for This Week on Planet Internet:
- Is there such a thing as a no politics culture? (1:40)
- Amy Tom goes real deep, real early #sorrynotsorry (3:22)
- "Pleasant" for whom, Basecamp? PLEASANT đ FOR đ WHOM đ (07:54)
- Naturally Limarc Ambalina's gon' be playing devil's advocate (09:40)
- Key Takeaway: if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, get a mediator (12:24)
- Why is Russia exporting so much Sputnik? (14:55)
- Limarc kind of maybe sympathizes with a Russian Dictator's decision to let his people die (16:40)
- Africa: the continent of milk and honey for startups and cryptos? (21:10)
- Necessity is the mother of all invention... (29:32)
- No gods no masters â down with regulation! (32:56)
Read the stories mentioned in this podcast:
- Is there such a thing as a âno politicsâ culture? Letters from Basecamp Founder and Coinbase Founder (medium link ugh): https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5 and https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company-af882df8804?gi=d00265f16919
- Russia, vaccine, science, space war, and more: from The daily aka Linh's main source of podcast lol: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/podcasts/the-daily/russia-vaccine-coronavirus-vladimir-putin.html
- Africa startups news on Hacker Noon! Question: out of the 69 billion raised for startups reported by Pitchbook in Q1 of 2021, how many are based or partially based in Africa? Prob not much.
- Crypto in Africa News on Hacker Noon. Equalizing force or a daydream? https://hackernoon.com/more-africans-walk-towards-financial-freedom-due-to-cryptocurrencies-552z33xu
This podcast was hosted by Linh Dao Smooke and panelled by Natasha Nel, Amy Tom, and Limarc Ambalina. This week we're also joined by our brand new podcast editor, Damian McIlhenny!
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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? đą Shoot the shit with Hacker Noon's Editors â
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:Â
1. Open source goes to Mars by Nat Friedman for The GitHub Blog: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-source-goes-to-mars/Â
2. Five takeaways about Facebook's pivot to audio by Casey Newton from Platformer: https://www.platformer.news/p/5-takeaways-about-facebooks-pivotÂ
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/Â Â
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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?Â
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:Â
- Why Microsoft Wants Discord by Tom Warren for The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/26/22352028/microsoft-discord-acquisition-analysis-reportÂ
- Cryptocurrency Market Overtakes Apple â The World's Most Valuable Company â In Market Capitalization by Shivdeep Dhaliwal for Benzinga: https://www.benzinga.com/node/20613282Â
- 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-w4h332nÂ
- 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-nvo33j3Â
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 â Mario Alves and Vladimiros Peilivanidis â 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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Thursday Jun 25, 2020
âI Was Making More Money Than Godâ - 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 McAfeeÂ
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Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Adam Todd, Lead Developer and CEO of Digitex Futures Exchange, joins Utsav Jaiswal to share his journey in trading and discuss what it takes to build a cryptocurrency exchange.Â
They discuss cryptocurrency space in general, bitcoin, and the effort behind building cryptocurrency exchange from scratch. Adam shares the story of his trading experience which started when he was 19, and how it led him to build a zero-fee cryptocurrency exchange.
Check related reads on Digitex, trading and cryptocurrency on Hacker Noon.Â
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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 BurnÂ
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
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Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Holochain Deep Dive with Arthur Brock and Eric-Harris-Braun
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Listen to the interview on iTunes or watch on YouTube.
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In this episode Utsav Jaiswal interviews Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun, Co-Founders of Holochain - an Open Source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications.Â
They talk about Holochainâs mission and values, how it differs from Blockchains, and how to manage distributed teams.Â
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âWhat we've been interested in is really how do we collectively shape currents, flows for a better world, for greater collective intelligence, for coordinating and collaborating better.â
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âHolochain is what we've come to after a very long time and a lot of intense efforts in understanding those (biological) patterns of how to create tools for distributed collective intelligence... And Holochain is our answer to being able to do that.â
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âIt creates currencies that are not speculated. It creates currencies that are based on actual production. People, for a long time, have been wondering why we have all these currencies when the government can issue as much of it as they want, whenever they want.Â
It's funny, in the blockchain world, they call their currencies non-fiat and government currencies - fiat, but blockchain currencies are also actually fiat.Â
They are declared out of nowhere.Â
Whereas, if you do this other pattern of creating mutual credit currencies based on productive capacity, then you are actually creating something that represents actual value in the world and our economics can become based on value rather than speculation.â
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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!
âIf 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 Iâm not saying it isnât, 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 itâs idle, you can actually make money from it.ââââDavid Sønstebø
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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 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 Shannonâs 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.
âI 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.ââââShannon Grinnell
Music by Derek Bernardâââhaberdasherband.com/production
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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.
âAlpine 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.ââWayne Chang
âWhat we look to do is engineer value rather than create speculative value. Weâre personally not affected by crypto winter. As Wayne mentioned, weâre focused a lot on enterprise too and seeing where the value can be driven in enterprises.ââââGregory Rocco
âThe combination of a global computer, smart contracts, tokens, all these things are going to help drive the transaction cost down of doing business, and youâre going to unlock new kinds of transactions that are going to form new markets that we couldnât even imagine before.ââââWayne 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.
âOur 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.â
âUltimately, 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.ââââCameron Chell
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.
âI 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.â
âCrypto shouldnât be about getting rich quickly. It should be about creating meaningful products that solve real world needs, and address real pain points.â
âIf Iâm right and blockchain is going to be so transformative, itâs 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.ââââTomer 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.
âI see cryptocurrencies more generally as a broad political philosophy about what it is you find important in the World.â
âCrytpocurrency is an entire governance model of saying this how decisions get made, this is how how value gets distributed.â
âWe are changing the World and weâd like you to join us, oh and by the way, weâre doing it with these tools and this technology that was never available before, which is why what we're doing is so revolutionary.ââââErica 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.
âCompliance is definitely a top priority for us.â
âTrue USD is meant to be as regulatory compliant as possible. We recently published a stable coin code of ethics, where we said, âhey, here is some of the things we learned about creating a stable coin, and some of the past lessons we learned historically.ââ
âWeâre 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.ââ Danny An
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.
âWe need to stop throwing the damn baby out with the bathwater, and assume that decentralized everything just works because itâs decentralized.â
âThese 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.â
âWe 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.ââââDaniel 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.
âIn bear markets the good people go build products, and in the bull markets people speculate.â
âOnce you get to critical mass, theres a lot of friction that exists between the existing banking World, and the emerging crypto payments World.â
âWeâre 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 peopleâs future portfolios. We need to get to a point as an industry where we can point to things and say, âhey this is a productized example where the blockchain is betterâ and it is being used at scale. But, remember youâre building a community.ââââMiles Paschini