Podcasts about edge wallet

Paul Puey is the CEO & co-founder of Edge Wallet: a light mobile wallet which is optimized for privacy features. In this episode, we talk about the philosophy behind Edge, how one should analyze privacy features & the various layers of Bitcoin privacy.

Paul Puey of Edge Wallet comes back on the Digital Cash Rundown for a quick chat about the Ethereum Foundation's investigation speculation, The Bitcoin X handle's scammy posts, and of course ETHDam promotion. Buy crypto from ATMs: https://coinatmradar.com/ Donate crypto! https://plisio.net/donate/wZs-Zxrg Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

Madison Payment of Edge Wallet come on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about Binance executives getting arrested and a $10 billion fine being assessed in Nigeria, Coinbase going down and showing zero balances, and more. Buy crypto from ATMs: https://coinatmradar.com/ Donate crypto! https://plisio.net/donate/wZs-Zxrg Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

Paul Puey of Edge Wallet comes back on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about Cointelegraph dumping and dumping the crypto markets with the fake Bitcoin ETF news, Reddit getting rid of its crypto token, THORSwap coming back online with extra regulation tools, and finally LBRY going under. Donate crypto! https://plisio.net/donate/wZs-Zxrg Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

Paul Puey of Edge Wallet joins the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about the tragic arrests of yet more Tornado Cash developers, and a discussion on privacy, crackdowns on open-source development, and centralization in DeFi and crypto. Buy subscriber NFTs! https://descentr.net/nft/ Start living on crypto: https://descentr.net/crypto Crypto services directory: https://descentr.net/crypto-services Music from https://www.zapsplat.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalcashnetwork/support

This week the guys are joined by Edge Wallet CEO and co-founder Paul Puey to discuss the future of crypto, theories surrounding FTX's murky origins, and best practices for handling your digital assets. Check out Paul and learn more about Edge at https://edge.app! Copy James at www.copymycrypto.com/sam! Head over to tradearies.com/cashdaddies for the big $100 promotion! Visit https://www.patreon.com/cashdaddies to subscribe to the Cash Daddies Patreon. Cash Daddies on social media: https://lnk.bio/d1sj/ Check out Sam's dates: https://samtripoli.com/events/

Super Excited is a podcast about blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and technology as a whole. In this episode, Stefan Rust talks with Paul Puey. Paul Puey is the CEO and co-founder of Edge Wallet, and is a mild-mannered contrarian. He's been in the wallet app space for nearly a decade, and his Edge is considered by many to be an industry standard. His background is in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, low-level 3D graphics engineering, and development of custom web CMS systems. His professional life includes stints at Nvidia and Chromatic Research. In this episode, Stefan and Paul discuss how disruption is a key motivator, transparency's significance, skin-in-the-game evangelists, and the bitcoin standard. Paul Puey: Twitter | Edge Wallet Stefan Rust: Youtube | Twitter | Linkedin

Paul Puey of Edge Wallet joins the podcast once again, this time to talk about the AOPP, or Address Ownership Proof Protocol, a new wallet protocol that facilitates complying with regulations. We talk about what the protocol actually does vs. what people think it does, as well as the Financial Action Task Force (FAT) "Travel Rule" and what its full implementation will mean for crypto exchanges. Finally, we talk various "slippery slope" scenarios and how implementing different wallet protocols could influence user behaviors and the development of regulations in the future. Donate - Sponsors Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my CoinTree link. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx Support us by checking out our sponsors! Want to live on crypto? Create aBitrefill account with the coupon code “DCN” and pay mobile bills orbuy gift cards from more than 1650 businesses in 170 countries quickly and privately, and earn rewards.- https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=DCN Buy anything you want in the world, even rare items, with crypto by using ShopInBit's concierge service. - https://shopinbit.com/en/conciergeservice-ordering-service?sPartner=joel If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? Join Odysee! - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c Protect your privacy online, sign up to NordVPNwith the promo code DCN and get 68% off,plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn If don't want search engines like Google controlling your search results and selling your information, join Presearchand get paid to search! - https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012 Music from https://www.zapsplat.com

Assange's brother, Gabriel Shipton, announces the FreeAssangeDAOI dive into the AOPP privacy controversy with Paul Puey, CEO of Edge Wallet.Tom Crown dives into the biggest headlines of the week!00:00 - Intro02:11 - Metaverse Token Crash (feat. Tom Crown)06:18 - India's Crypto Tax09:14 - Binance SMS Scam12:00 - FreeAssangeDAO (feat. Gabriel Shipton)21:47 - AOPP Privacy Nightmare or Overblown? (feat. Paul Puey)39:06 - OutroHuge thank you to Tom, Gabriel, and Paul for coming on the show!Free Assange DAO: https://juicebox.money/#/p/assangedaoCheck out Tom Crown's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TomCrownPaul Puey's twitter: https://twitter.com/paullinatorMore about the Assange NFT:'Censored' is a 2-part NFT collection by artist Pak in collaboration with imprisoned WikiLeaks-founder Julian Assange.It will be auctioned on February 7th. The first part is a one of a kind ("1/1 edition") NFT, which Pak describes as "dynamic and generative" - meaning that the digital art piece changes over time.The second part of the collection is an "open edition" which will also be participative.Renowned digital artist Pak is one of the highest grossing artists alive, known for pushing conceptual and stylistic boundaries. Pak became a household name in the traditional art world after Sotheby's auctioned his collection 'The “Fungible' in April 2021, selling for US $16.8 million. In December 2021, Pak again made headlines as his collection 'The Merge' set a new record for an artwork sold publicly by a living artist at US $91.8 million, surpassing Jeff Koons's "Rabbit".Proceeds of the NFT will go to benefit Julian Assange's defense fund as he fights against a US extradition request.    Twitter: https://twitter.com/AssangeDAO    Background Info: https://assangedao.org    Chat: http://discord.gg/assangedaoFollow:https://twitter.com/assangedaohttps://twitter.com/muratpakhttps://twitter.com/wikileakshttps://twitter.com/gabrielshiptonhttps://twitter.com/stellamoris1Brought to you by NBTV members: Sam Ettaro, Will Sandoval, and Naomi BrockwellTo support NBTV, visit https://www.nbtv.media/support(tax-deductible in the US)Sign up for the free CryptoBeat newsletter here:https://cryptobeat.substack.com/Beware of scammers, I will never give you a phone number or reach out to you with investment advice. I do not give investment advice.Visit the NBTV website:https://nbtv.media#crypto #bitcoin #metaverse #FreeAssangeDAO #binanceSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/naomibrockwell)

Paul Puey, CEO of Edge Wallet, comes on the Rundown to talk all things crypto, including the SEC's ongoing Bitconnect settlement where years later some of cryptocurrency's biggest scammers are finally paying fines, and what that means for the rest of the space. We also covered CBDCs, central bank digital currencies, and what they offer vs. other traditional currencies and cryptocurrencies. Finally we talked a lot of stablecoins and market rankings, and how much they make sense right now. Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my CoinTree link. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx Support us by checking out our sponsors! Want to live on crypto? Create a Bitrefill account with the coupon code “DCN” and pay mobile bills or buy gift cards from more than 1650 businesses in 170 countries quickly and privately, and earn rewards. - https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=DCN Buy anything you want in the world, even rare items, with crypto by using ShopInBit's concierge service. - https://shopinbit.com/en/conciergeservice-ordering-service?sPartner=joel If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? Join Odysee! - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c Protect your privacy online, sign up to NordVPN with the promo code DCN and get 68% off, plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn If don't want search engines like Google controlling your search results and selling your information, join Presearch and get paid to search! - https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012 Music from https://www.zapsplat.com

This is the full interview with Edge Wallet co-founder Paul Puey. Paul discusses a wide range of pertinent crypto-related topics ranging from privacy, security, autonomy, decentralization, Defi, RSK, El Salvador, Lightning Network, gaming and crypto, and coming improvements and additions to Edge Wallet. Don't miss this one! Follow Paul on social media: https://twitter.com/paullinator Get Edge wallet: https://edge.app/ Welcome to the 15th episode of Bitrefill's To The Moon Podcast. To The Moon is Bitrefill's new weekly podcast to discuss Bitcoin, altcoins, adoption, news & current events, and all things crypto. Join host Lawrence Ray, along with Jerry Okai, and Ricardo Martinez, for a light-hearted and humorous weekly discussion about the latest developments in the crypto economy. Join our Sphinx.Chat Tribe: https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/bitrefillstothemoonpodcast Follow To The Moon Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToTheMoonPod Follow Bitrefill on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitrefill Browse Bitrefill's catalog of gift cards and mobile refills: https://www.bitrefill.com/ Sign up for a Bitrefill account: https://www.bitrefill.com/signup

In part five, Paul speaks on DApps, RSK, and Defi, and how innovation from Ethereum, is on it's way to Bitcoin. Paul also talks about his personal experiences with Defi, and how Edge plans to bring Defi compatibility to its wallet. Paul also discusses Edge's plans to add Bech 32 compatibility, RBF, and CPFP transactions to improve user experience and lower fees for onchain Bitcoin payments. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNsprVN8Gc Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVsKdJNJqnY Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UG7wvd1gl0 Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCj_j00bEko Follow Paul on social media: https://twitter.com/paullinator Get Edge wallet: https://edge.app/ Welcome to the 15th episode of Bitrefill's To The Moon Podcast. To The Moon is Bitrefill's new weekly podcast to discuss Bitcoin, altcoins, adoption, news & current events, and all things crypto. Join host Lawrence Ray, along with Jerry Okai, and Ricardo Martinez, for a light-hearted and humorous weekly discussion about the latest developments in the crypto economy. Join our Sphinx.Chat Tribe: https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/bitrefillstothemoonpodcast Follow To The Moon Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToTheMoonPod Follow Bitrefill on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitrefill Browse Bitrefill's catalog of gift cards and mobile refills: https://www.bitrefill.com/ Sign up for a Bitrefill account: https://www.bitrefill.com/signup

This week, in part 1 of our interview, we catch up with Edge Wallet Co-founder, Paul Puey. Paul explains his humble origins in Silicon Valley, California, as an immigrant from the Philippines, how he got started in tech working for Nvidia, how he found Bitcoin, and why it resonated with him. Follow Paul on social media: https://twitter.com/paullinator Get Edge wallet: https://edge.app/ Welcome to the 15th episode of Bitrefill's To The Moon Podcast. To The Moon is Bitrefill's new weekly podcast to discuss Bitcoin, altcoins, adoption, news & current events, and all things crypto. Join host Lawrence Ray, along with Jerry Okai, and Ricardo Martinez, for a light-hearted and humorous weekly discussion about the latest developments in the crypto economy. Join our Sphinx.Chat Tribe: https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/bitrefillstothemoonpodcast Follow To The Moon Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToTheMoonPod Follow Bitrefill on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitrefill Browse Bitrefill's catalog of gift cards and mobile refills: https://www.bitrefill.com/ Sign up for a Bitrefill account: https://www.bitrefill.com/signup

Paul Puey, CEO of Edge Wallet, comes on the podcast to chat about MicroStrategy buying the dip on Bitcoin, ushering in a new era of retail investors, and what that means for the "little guy" actually owning Bitcoin private keys vs. owning a stake that some company really owns. We also talked about Ethereum scaling, and the DeFi rush, and how huge it is that major parts of the centralized trading ecosystem are becoming decentralized now. We also covered the Ripple lawsuits and whether or not they will actually sink the project. Finally, we covered Odysee, the LBRY front-end that this podcast was livestreamed on for the first time! Donate - Sponsors Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my CoinTree link. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx Support us by checking out our sponsors! Want to live on crypto? Create a Bitrefill account with the coupon code “DCN” and pay mobile bills or buy gift cards from more than 1650 businesses in 170 countries quickly and privately, and earn rewards. - https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=DCN Buy anything you want in the world, even rare items, with crypto by using ShopInBit’s concierge service. - https://shopinbit.com/en/conciergeservice-ordering-service?sPartner=joel If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? Join Odysee! - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c Protect your privacy online, sign up to NordVPN with the promo code DCN and get 68% off, plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn If don't want search engines like Google controlling your search results and selling your information, join Presearch and get paid to search! - https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012 Music from https://www.zapsplat.com

This week on the Bitcoin Magazine podcast, Host Christian Keroles sits down with long time Bitcoiner and cofounder of the RSK Bitcoin Sidechain Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar. RSK has been live on top of Bitcoin since 2018 and has been quietly building a fantastic ecosystem of wallets, Decentralized order-books, Bitcoin backed stablecoins and more. The projects being built on and enabled by RSK have been making an incredible amount of hype in the Bitcoin community and they are all enabled by the RSK sidechain.   RSK is merged mined with Bitcoin and leverages Bitcoin as it's own native currency. Bitcoin has to be pegged into the RSK chain and Diego's team are working on greatly improving the UX and wait time for a trustless peg between BTC and RBTC. We discuss how Bitcoiners can easily and trustlessly peg into the RSK chain and start taking advantage of all the applications built on RSK. There are several user friendly wallets including Edge Wallet that allows for a non technical users to get access to RBTC.   In this interview it is very clear that Diego and his team are true Bitcoiners and are building with Bitcoin's best interest in mind. Because the RSK team is located in Latam and Argentina they have a very close touch with the struggles and needs of the unbanked and underbanked. RSK is building the decentralized infrastructure needed to sustain a financial system completely on blockchains.

While working at one of the largest marketing companies in 2012, David Wachsman was given the advice to join a small boutique agency. David took this advice and soon took over day-to-day operations in his new position. He says it was here that he learned all the ins and outs of making an agency run well. It was in the early days of bitcoin that David would first learn of it. He didn't know much about it other than what he read, but he reached out to a bitcoin CEO and was convinced it was the real deal. David would go on to begin work with the CEO of Coin Setter. It was here he further fell down the rabbit hole. Eventually, the Coin Setter CEO would convince David to start his own firm in mid-2015. That was the beginning of Wachsmans, which is now known internationally. There was a lot of building to be done in the space before you could effectively reach people, but Wachsmans has been instrumental in the adoption of bitcoin. David started off his company with a bitcoin conference After Party. It was here that he met many of his clients, including the CEO of what is now called Edge Wallet. Having more bitcoin clients than anyone and his connections with the media, David was becoming the go-to guy for bitcoin marketing. Luckily, building a PR agency doesn't require much startup, but you need to spend money on labor to scale well. Wachsman's appealed to founders because PR is the first marketing a company should do with brand-related marketing. Next, you would need targeted advertising to help grow adoption. With both working in tandem, you can begin to build up a community. In 2016 crypto grew from 6 billion to 8 billion and from 18 billion to 850 billion in 2017. It would seem crypto isn't going anywhere, but David would like to see institutional adoption to really send that message that crypto is here to stay. David is also excited to see regulations for security tokens, which brings transparency that didn't exist before. Processes for automatic payments and remittances are on the incline as well. David is incredibly excited to see people using bitcoin to diversify their portfolios. David urges any listeners that are communication professionals to check out their website, wachsman.com, and apply. -- Divi is creating the world's first closed-loop, vertically-integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Much like Apple's ecosystem is anchored by iCloud, the Divi Project blockchain serves as the core of the Divi network of technologies. Thanks to a keen understanding of the divide that separates the mainstream from the crypto world, the Divi team is able to create solutions to the industry's biggest problem: adoption by non-technical users. Divi's user-friendly, one-click solutions aim to bring blockchain-based payments into modernity with great UX. In this podcast, we will cover all aspects of cryptocurrency, hot topics, and technology as worldwide adoption grows.

Heute sprechen Fabio, Pashka und Unbasiert über Bitcoin. Wir wollen heute versuchen Bitcoin so einfach wie möglich zu erklären und über Vor- und Nachteile, sowie bereits existierende Anwendungsmöglichkeiten zu sprechen. Dazu habe ich mir zwei langjährige Beobachter der Szene eingeladen, und zwar Fabio und Pashka. Fabio ist Bitcoin Fan und MLPD Mitgründer, Pashka ist Bitcoin Enthausiast und Generalsekretär des Dezentalkommites. Unbasiert ist Unbasiert und ebenfalls MLPD Mitglied. [Was ist Bitcoin, und wie ist die Idee entstanden?] Was ist Bitcoin, und warum das Ganze? Wie funktioniert Bitcoin technisch (vereinfacht)? Wie entsteht ein Bitcoin? [Vor- und Nachteile] Was macht Bitcoin so besonders? Welche Vor- und Nachteile hat Bitcoin ggü. dem Euro? [Nutzung von Bitcoin] Wie kann man Bitcoin verwenden und verwahren? Wie viel Verwaltungsaufwand hat man beim Anlegen/Verwenden? Wo kann man Bitcoin kaufen und verkaufen? Wenn ich dann Bitcoins hätte, wo kann man sie als Währung verwenden? Gibt es EC-Karten/Kreditkarten für Bitcoin? Was passiert mit meinen Coins, wenn ich morgen vom Bus überfahren werde? Gibt es ein Seite wo man Angebote zu seriösen Anbietern von Dienstleistungen bekommt? [Die Zukunft von Kryptowährungen] Welche Zukunft hat Bitcoin? Akzeptanz, Preis, Technik. Digitaler Euro / Dollar als massiver Einschnitt in Krypto. [Bitcoin als Spekulationsobjekt] Welchen Wert in € hat Bitcoin damals und heute? Lohnt es sich auch für Leute mit sehr schmalem Budget? Sollte/Muss man jeden Monat etwas einzahlen? (Euro cost Averaging) Wenn ich einsteigen will, wie viel sollte ich investieren? Kann ich bei Fragen wie und wo ich mein Geld in Krypto anlegen möchte, jemanden zu Rate ziehen? Fabio auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fabio_Bossi Pashka auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/Expice Unbasiert auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/Unbasiert https://twitter.com/MLPDEmskirchen MLPD auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLPDofficial #TeamMLPD MLPD auf Discord: https://discord.gg/TGq9JsN MLPD auf Hive: https://hive.blog/@mlpdofficial Verlinkungen: Wallets: Exodus Wallet: https://www.exodus.io/ Samurai Wallet: https://samouraiwallet.com/ Edge Wallet: https://edge.app/ Hardware Wallets: Trezor: https://trezor.io/ Ledger: https://www.ledger.com/ Kaufmöglichkeiten: Bitcoin.de: https://www.bitcoin.de/ Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/de/ Kraken: https://www.kraken.com/ bitpanda.com: https://www.bitpanda.com/de fidorBANK: https://www.fidor.de/ Mit Bitcoin bezahlen: Lieferando: https://www.lieferando.de/blog/mit-bitcoins-essen-bestellen/ bitcou: https://www.bitcou.com/ shopinbit: https://shopinbit.de/ Bitcoin Kreditkarten: bitwala: https://www.bitwala.com/ Embily Card: https://embily.com/ Bitcoin News: btc-echo: https://www.btc-echo.de/

This week I chatted to Dan Larimer, the CTO of Block.one, as an NBTV members-exclusive video. Video version: https://naomibrockwell.com/members-content/2020/10/7/dan-larimer-eos-amp-the-philosophy-of-democracy To get access and join the NBTV members-only newsletter, visit: https://naomibrockwell.com/memberships We start off by taking a deep dive into EOS, and end up in a philosophical discussion about democracy in general. We cover: - BitShares as an early DeFi project - The Hive Fork this year - Steem and what’s been learnt from these previous iterations - Google Cloud becoming a block producer for the EOS network - the early constitution that was scrapped - Voice platform - Differences between EOS and Ethereum - Rothbard’s title transfer theory of contract - Censorship culture - The philosophy of secession Paul Puey, the CEO of Edge Wallet, and I did a deep dive into EOS on our Coinwatch show this week, so if you’d like to hear Paul’s perspective of the coin and whether or not Paul would be interested in investing $100 in it, that episode is released on Thursday and I’ll post the link here once it's released. If you’d like to send me any questions for guests or send a message of support for the show, I have a cointr.ee page and you can add a note to my wall https://cointr.ee/naomibrockwell I also have a free weekly newsletter called cryptobeat, crypto news in 5 minutes or less, directly to your inbox. You can sign up at https://naomibrockwell.com/cryptobeat

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CEO of Edge Wallet, Paul Puey, joins me to chat about Monero and the war against privacy coins, and Dash's new Coinbase Listing. We do a deep-dive into the technical aspects of each coin, their histories, and the latest news from each coin. video: https://youtu.be/WxEUO05-aoQ

"CoinWatch" on NBTV with @paullinator CEO of @EdgeWallet We take a deep dive into $LTC and $XRP/Ripple and explain the currencies on both a marketing and protocol level Is #Litecoin a Backup #Bitcoin or is it #Silver to Bitcoin's #Gold? Is #XRP a Cypherpunk Nemesis or a Banker's Crypto Juggernaut? Paul Puey is the CEO of Edge Wallet, and has in depth knowledge of a huge number of cryptocurrencies. It was great to get his insight into the recent leak from Charlie Lee revealing that LTC has no active developers, and the history of XRP/Ripple and why people either love it or hate it.

Tatiana and Josh had a great conversation with Paul Puey, founder of Edge Wallet and veteran crypto entrepreneur.  His experience and insight is blazing trails in the industry. We talked about Edge and looked forward to all the exciting things happening this week, including our event Crypto Stars event Saturday night.  He said he will be there primarily to enjoy all the great music and comedy, but will be sporting his Edge shirt and will be happy to answer any questions other attendees may have. If you don’t have your free ticket yet, this opportunity is another reason to come join the fun and network with so many amazing folks like Paul. We also spoke with Jun Dam who is organizing the 100X Crypto Summit event that Tatiana will be speaking at on May 14th here in NYC.   About the Guests: Paul is a proud Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate of UC Berkeley with a wide range of technical skills from low-level 3D graphics engineering to development of custom web CMS systems, even before people knew what a CMS was. He held lead engineering positions with Nvidia and Chromatic Research, but most recently owned and operated several non-technical small businesses throughout California. There he learned the importance of the intersection of people, business, and technology. Today, Paul aims to bring Bitcoin mainstream with software and products aimed at simplifying Bitcoin and making it insanely easy to send and secure this revolutionary currency while maintaining the highest level of privacy. When not converting people to bitcoin you’ll likely find him climbing a rock in Joshua Tree or at a local climbing gym. If you like this content, please send a tip with BTC to: 1444meJi7YjgQGNg3U8Z6qYZFA5cgz4Gmj More Info: TatianaMoroz.com CryptoMediaHub.com Edge.app Friends and Sponsors of the Show: Proof of Love Blocktap.io

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Guest:  Matt Smith Title: Crypto Prediction Markets: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Record Date: 1/9/2019 Air Date: 1/31/2019 Topic: Crypto Predictions Markets Matt Smith joins us today to talk about how crypto prediction markets work, how blockchain technology is being used to modernize online gambling, which essentially allows people to speculate on the outcome of all kinds of future events. We discuss some of the common applications of these prediction markets and their pros and cons. And we dive into some of the deep implications of the more controversial betting markets on these platforms, such as assassination markets and mass casualties in future unknown terrorist attacks. It’s a fascinating discussion. Join us!   Topics Covered in this Episode:   – Sports gambling is very much in the news – Brief history of sports gambling laws in the United States – 2018 Supreme Court decision giving power to states on sports gambling – Will online sports gambling be next step of legalizing gambling? – How traditional prediction markets work – Prediction markets and how they utilize the “wisdom of crowds” – Different formulations of prediction markets – Crypto prediction market as a new twist on an age-old idea – Benefits of decentralized prediction markets – better security and censorship resistance, global pool of liquidity – Could shape future of online sports gambling – Core innovation – gambling good way to bootstrap new crypto networks, uncover information otherwise hidden, inject data verifiably into the blockchain ecosystem – NJ Refund of bets example – How these platforms actually work? How do you place bets and create markets? – How censorship resistant decentralized betting platforms such as Augur work, interacting directly with the markets, using the blockchain – On killing the kill switch of this network and what that means – On assassination markets and the potential implications of that – On political bad actors and how they could manipulate assassination markets – Where all this is heading, maybe to the courts – How dispute resolution works on these platforms – Some recent disputes such as the recent US midterm elections and baseball and how they are being resolved – Closing thoughts Links and Resources: Betting on the national anthem: An American tradition Biggest Super Bowl LIII bets 2019 Super Bowl Betting Odds: Spread, Total & Prop Betting Action Update Supreme Court Ruling Favors Sports Betting MURPHY, GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, ET AL. v.NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSN. ET AL. US Betting Sites Sports Betting May Soon Be Legal in New York, but Only 4 Casinos Upstate Would Offer It Will Sports Betting Transform How Games Are Watched, and Even Played? Prediction Markets Four Prediction Market Platforms Compared The Weirdest Prediction Markets on Augur Right Now Crypto Prediction Market Augur Is Gearing Up for Its First Major Upgrade The First Augur Assassination Markets Have Arrived The Weirdest Prediction Markets on Augur Right Now - Yahoo Finance What are Blockchain Prediction Markets? Decentralized Prediction Markets: the Opportunities, the Threats, and Prediction markets are hot AF right now. – Hacker As Crypto Meets Prediction Markets, Regulators Take Notice Decentralized Prediction Markets: How Blockchain Crypto Betting Works? Why You Should Try Decentralized Prediction Markets Right Now If the "Which party will control the House after 2018 U.S. Midterm Election?" resolves to anything but 'Democrats' I'm never using Augur again Augur Betting, Over 2 Million for the US Election N.J. sports book refunds bets from Saints game after blown call Questions and Comments? podcast@gem.co Transcript Chitra: Welcome to the show, Matt. It's great to have you.   Matt: Thanks, Chitra. It's always good to be at Gem.   Chitra: Wonderful. Before we go into what crypto-based prediction markets are, let's talk a little bit about what are prediction markets and how do they work?   Matt: Yeah sure. So a prediction market is a market like any other. It's a place where commerce happens, where things are bought and sold. The name can be a little misleading because you're not buying predictions. What you're buying are stake, you're buying a stake, like a position, in the outcome of some event. The thing that's unique about a prediction market is that you can bet on the outcome of any event. So say I care a lot about sports and I want to put money on my position that the Yankees are absolutely gonna beat the Red Sox, obviously, and maybe that's illegal where I do it, but I'll go to my bookie and I'll say hey I think the Red Sox are gonna win, I've looked at the stats, they're gonna win so I'm gonna put this much money on it, give me some odds. Then whenever that event resolves, I get money back if I'm right and then I lose my money if I'm wrong.   Chitra: Okay. So there's a lot of science and math behind this because it essentially goes to the notion of the wisdom of crowds. That an individual's intelligence gathering is a lot less powerful than that of a number of people. So it's essentially aggregating of information.   Matt: Yeah. It's not necessarily just that like you get 100 people in a room and those people are gonna make a better decision than one person in isolation. What these markets really do, if they are liquid and highly available, if you have access to a large number of people, there's gonna be people in that crowd that have some insight. That maybe have inside information or have studied the mechanics of whatever is gonna drive the outcome of the result. A prediction market can enable those people to monetize that knowledge, that insight. So people that don't know really any information about the Red Sox or the Yankees, they're not gonna bet on it because they don't know who's gonna win, it would be a very risky proposition for them, but someone that has inside information like their best hitter got injured but they haven't announced it yet, he's got a real strong incentive to go and make a big bet on the Yankees.   Chitra: Right. So there's a lot of value to this.   Matt: Yeah. So you can absolutely uncover information that would otherwise remain hidden. That's why we call it a prediction market because the market as a whole for the outcome of some event predicts what the outcome will be.   Chitra: These are binary decision making right on sort of discrete events?   Matt: There are actually a bunch of different formulations, different constructions you can do for models. Binary is probably the most common, easiest to understand. Like this is gonna happen or this is gonna happen. One of these two things is gonna happen. That's available on most of the prediction markets we're gonna talk about today. You can also do categories, like multiple choice A, B, C or D. Or you can do like a scale or range, a numerical range. Like it's gonna be somewhere between this value... You can have a curve where the payout is proportional to where it falls on this graph. Those are a little bit more complicated so maybe it's easier to talk about the binary option. Binary options are fairly interesting because binary option is an existing financial instrument, and prediction markets as a class sort of mimic their pay where there's a threshold, and one thing happens or the other thing happens and then you pay out accordingly.   Chitra: So now let's talk about crypto-based prediction markets. Now, prediction markets are very old. They go back to like 1884 or something like that. So are crypto prediction markets basically a new twist on a very old idea?   Matt: That feels like a leading question, Chitra. Totally - they are. We've seen political election markets way, way back, people do things like buy votes because there's a financial incentive to make their party win because they had bet a lot of money on this one candidate winning. So, yeah, people definitely do this and that's why we see regulations emerge around what you can bet on, what you can't bet on. Crypto prediction markets are interesting because we get a lot of the, after what you see in blockchain and decentralized applications that are well suited to the form, which means that they eliminate counterparty risk.   Chitra: What does that mean?   Matt: So when I go to bet on the Red Sox or the Yankees and say it's illegal. I think there are regulatory changes in the US where maybe sports betting is okay now, but until very recently at least it was illegal to bet on sports in most jurisdictions. So if I'm gonna go and place that bet, I'm gonna be going to a bookie who's breaking the law. Because this is like a shady area, there's a chance that when I give him my money and tell him to give me more money back if I'm right, there's a chance that he just doesn't do that. I'm still right, but he just goes away. My risk is that my counterparty, the person I'm interacting with, this guy, is going to abscond.   This risk exists in most centralized systems, not just in these fringe ones or these illegal markets where it's definitely much more risky because there isn't regulatory oversight, but even if you're trading on a normal financial exchange, foreign exchange or something. There's still a risk that your counterparty person that you're trading directly with through this intermediary won't be able to satisfy the order and you'll be left out in the cold.   Matt: So there's a counterparty risk, and we can eliminate this, we do this in decentralized exchange protocols, like the 0x protocol and Ether Delta and these other applications. The other thing that we get by using a blockchain is we get this censorship resistance. So like I said, it's illegal on these jurisdictions to gamble on a lot of things like political elections, it's illegal almost everywhere to gamble on them because it sort of undermines the integrity of the election. So you can't really do that. But in a decentralized prediction market, it's really hard to enforce those rules. You can't really say no you can do you can do this but not this. You sort of do whatever you want. Maybe that's a good thing because there are some jurisdictions where your access to financial markets in general is restricted.   This is a mechanism that maybe some corrupt governments might use to keep certain segments of the population from accessing the broader financial markets. Like we can look at the currency controls in China. They have limited access to international markets. Prediction markets are cool because you can use them to emulate almost any financial instrument. I can make a prediction market for what will the price of the British pound versus the US dollar be on such and such a date? Then I can basically create this synthetic forex market out of this decentralized platform. So they're very versatile. And because they're censorship resistant, they're also international. I can reach across borders. I've got this huge global pool of liquidity. Everyone in the world that wants to bet on the Red Sox versus the Yankees can do it in this one place.   Chitra: So someone in China could make a prediction on who's gonna win the World Cup or something like that.   Matt: Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. That's a cool thing because normally these sort of markets, especially when they're illegal, are localized. They're focused on a small local area. Or they're run by a centralized online exchange, and those we saw with the dark web Silk Road markets and those kind of things, those are very vulnerable to people absconding with money because that's what you've ascended to. So the conflicts of those three factors are what make these really uniquely valuable in terms of a betting market or trading exchange kind of thing.   Chitra: So what's the core innovation here? What's the true value of these decentralized platforms do you think? If you were to sum it up.   Matt: Gambling is a good way to get network, bootstrap network. Because everyone likes to gamble. We've been doing this forever. Dice is a really old kind of game people bet on. It's something people want to do and it's something that governments tend to restrict people's access to. So we can get a lot of people on this platform to start using it. But the results of using these markets is we get two really cool things out of these prediction markets.   The first thing is that we can uncover information the world has at large but isn't able to voice about what's going to happen to the world. We were talking about earlier, maybe it's something trivial like the Red Sox versus the Yankees, or maybe it's something much more meaningful, and I struggle to find a good example because I didn't prepare well enough, but we can sort of see, maybe we're talking about an election or something, and maybe there was some key insight about what's gonna happen in this local election that a few people have. So we might be able to give them a financial incentive to reveal that information monetarily, and potentially anonymously if you're very careful, so they get rewarded for telling the world that they feel very strong, they feel this many dollars strongly that this is gonna happen. So we get this information service.   The other thing that we get out of these platforms is specifically in the blockchain space is that we get this information from the outside world, like Yankees versus Red Sox or who won the election, and we are able to inject it in a trusted verifiable way into a blockchain ecosystem. This maybe will get a little technical, but the way smart contracts on most blockchain platforms work is that they're what's called deterministic. There's no opportunity for them to have any sort of randomness. They just sort of are a pure result of whatever the inputs to the function of this smart contract program is. That's cool, but what it restricts you to is that you can't get any non-deterministic sources. So you can't reach out to the normal Internet. You can't go to like Weather.com and then figure out what is the weather today?   So there's no really great way for you to write programs that run in a decentralized application that act on these external real-world events. You can do it with what's called an oracle. There are a few sites and services that will do this, where you say like take the information that's published on this webpage and then insert it into the blockchain. That is one way to address a problem. The problem with it is that you have to trust the service that's doing that. One person is publishing a transaction that says the weather is 95 degrees today. The cool thing about these prediction markets when they run on this blockchain is that there are financial incentives to make sure that everyone that's participating agrees this is actually what happens. It was actually 95 degrees that day. Trump actually won the election.   Chitra: So basically you're putting money behind it so it makes a difference.   Matt: Right. You're putting an incentive for everyone that knows that this thing happened to say this is the thing that happened and they will lose that money if they lie. This is really powerful because other smart contracts can leverage these platforms. They can point at these prediction market contracts and say okay I'm interested in the outcome of this result, I want to know what happens. I want my contract to do something in case Trump wins, in case Hillary wins or whatever. Which is something you couldn't really very verifiably or trustlessly do before these sort of decentralized oracles existed. That I think is really powerful and it amps up what we can do with these decentralized applications.   Chitra: Let's talk about how these markets actually work. There are a handful of these crypto prediction markets, Augur being one of them. How do they actually work? How do you make a bet? If I were a betting person.   Matt: Yeah if you were a betting person, Chitra. It's not too dissimilar from how you would log into a normal betting website I guess. It's not very much like a casino where you go play online poker. I have not used that many actual gambling applications, so I don't know what the UI looks like. But basically what you're gonna do is you're gonna go to some website that is gonna be running a server with a connection to the blockchain. Or you're gonna download an application that connects to the blockchain. Maybe there's some sync time. People are familiar when you download the Bitcoin wallet, the main bitcoin log, it takes ages to sync and stuff. You might run into that depending on how you access it, but there are ways around that.   So you get to basically just a web page. It's gonna have a list of all these markets that exist, maybe they'll be categorized. They'll say like these are the sports betting markets, these are the political markets, these are financial markets and stuff. You can go and you can see which markets have been created. Anyone can go and create a market. Anyone can be like I want to create a market for this thing that I want to know about, and that I think I have insight on and I'm gonna bet on myself. So you look at all these and you say okay Yankees, Red Sox, I'm interested in this. So you click on the thing and then you can see that there's a price. So Yankees v. Red Sox, Yankees, Red Sox. There are gonna be two outcomes and you'll see shares for each of these outcomes. So there are yes shares, there are Red Sox shares and there are Yankees shares.   So you can buy either of those and each of those will have a price in Ether. Eventually when we have more stable coin support, you'll be able to buy it in a USD token. But it'll be a cryptocurrency. It will also run on that same blockchain network. So you'll have a blockchain wallet, Metamask, or the Edge Wallet, something like that. Then you're going to say I want to buy such and such Boston shares, Red Sox shares. They'll have some price in Ether and then you go and you buy it.   Another thing that you can do is you can take one Ether and then you can deposit it into the market in some models, and then you'll get equal, you'll get one of both shares, and then you can sell the share that you think's not gonna happen. So there are a couple different mechanisms for that. Basically you're buying shares in the outcome of this market.   Chitra: And using crypto to do that.   Matt: And you're using crypto to do that.   Chitra: Okay.   Matt: So then what's gonna happen is there's gonna be a time when it's set to resolve, like whoever created the market is gonna say this is happening on such and such date. And when that time comes, he or somebody is gonna put in an initial report on what the outcome was, and there's a dispute phase where we sort of... The blockchain comes to an agreement, we come to a consensus on what the outcome of the market was. Once it's decided, everyone with the Boston shares, those Boston shares are now worth 100 percent of the total Ether put into the market, and all the Yankee shares are worth nothing. So if you are stuck holding a bunch of Yankee shares you're like oh that's great. This is blockchain evidence that I made a bad bet. Then the other people get their money.   Chitra: If you didn't already know that you made a bad bet, you have…   Matt: Yeah now you have verifiable evidence.   Chitra: Your empty wallet being an example of having made a bad bet.   Matt: Exactly. But the winners will get that money back into the wallet they used to interact with the protocol. It's pretty straight forward as a trader. The ones that are live, Augur is maybe the biggest one that people talk about right now because it's live and you can actually use it. So their UI is fairly straightforward to use if you're just betting on things. You just see graphs, you see yes no, you see percentages, how many of these token exists and how many you can buy in the network and stuff. So it looks a lot like if you go to a normal exchange where there are a bunch of little mini exchanges.   Chitra: Okay. So we've talked about some of the more straightforward applications, sports, politics, weather. But some of these prediction markets have also some pretty weird and controversial use cases. You've heard about these assassination markets on Augur where people are prediction on celebrity killings, of politicians and other famous people. You've got, what are some of these examples and how did that come about? You've got terrorist attacks, predicting how many mass casualties will happen as a result of an attack.   Matt: Yeah. So like we said, it's a censorship-resistant platform, like Augur we'll take as an example. The software is built by a company called the Forecast Foundation, and they just deployed these smart contracts on the network. They created this token REP, which stands for reputation. There's a fixed supply of those. Those are the people that get to report on outcomes of events. So that's all they really... They put the contracts out there and they created software where you can use this platform to create your own prediction markets. But they didn't create any, they don't control, they don't run like a centralized server where you can go and interact. It's like you download the app and you interact directly with the blockchain protocol.   So they're sort of hands off. You can do whatever. They did for a short period of time have a killswitch when they were first pulling the network to make sure everything went okay. But they burned that killswitch. It's done now. Nobody can turn this off. It's just there. Unless somebody hacks it, and that happens. But so what that means is nobody really has any control over which markets can be created. Anyone can create whatever market they want. There's a small fee to create a market or whatever and if you're willing to stake that, create a market for it. Then anybody that sees that market can go and bet on it. So that's cool because it gives a lot of people access to instruments they wouldn't otherwise be able to get exposure to, and it lets us bet on things that maybe we should be allowed to but for whatever regulatory reasons we can't.   But it also means that we can bet on things that for good reasons we aren't really supposed to. So the assassination markets are a really good example. Basically people create a market that says will such and such political figure die by the end of such and such time frame? The problem with that is it's not just an event that's out of everyone's hands that will sort of occur, this is true with sports betting too which is one of the reasons sports betting is illegal in a lot of jurisdictions. Having a market where you can go bet on one of those outcomes, political figure A will die, creates an incentive for anyone to go and affect that outcome. So I would go and bet yes, I would not, a person might go and bet yes and then go actually commit that murder. Then he would have a big financial incentive.   So that's why we call them assassination markets rather than just a normal prediction market on what's gonna happen. Will he die of natural causes or whatever? It creates this incentive to do this. This is actually really kinda scary. These existed on Augur, but it's not really a big deal because no one's betting on them. So no one's gonna interact with a market if the liquidity is really low because the potential reward is very low, correspondingly low. Most of these markets on the Augur platform which is the only one that I think that is live, are below a thousand dollars total stake opened in these markets. That's a fact because there are a bunch of them. Anyone can create one so you have a bunch so there's this big overload of all these markets you can bet on.   So it hasn't been a problem yet. But if I say I'm a very well funded political actor. Like I'm a state actor or I'm a political opponent, and I have access to a lot of funds, what I can do is I can create that market and then put a lot of money on the opposite side. So will my opponent die? And then I bet no. I put millions of dollars on no. That is effectively a million dollars bounty on that head that anyone can go and fill. All they need to do is buy a bunch of yes shares and then go pull the trigger.   So this is really bad if you think about cyber warfare. You think about well-funded nation states. We've seen a lot of news being reported of questionable veracity about North Korean and Russian hackers using cryptocurrency in some of their schemes. So they maybe have access, they have a deep understanding of how these networks well. They have the ability to do this kind of thing, and it allows you to basically put an open bounty, a public open bounty, on someone's head from overseas and anonymously. It's really scary that you can do that.   Chitra: Isn't someone gonna do something about this? Do you foresee any kind of legal or regulatory issues, liability issues?   Matt: Yeah definitely. It's really hard to say how it's gonna happen because you can't shut it down. The network runs the way it does, the smart contracts are deployed. There's no killswitch on this, so you can't shut it down. It's just there so you can use it. What you can do is go after the people that interact with it. We might see governments outlawing Augur specifically and that's kind of hard to regulate because it's just transactions on a blockchain platform. But again, blockchain records are immutable so I have a disincentive to do anything if I think it can be associated with my identity. There's a very high bar to interacting with most of these public blockchain networks, truly and honestly.   So it's dangerous and there's a disincentive there. But the other thing that we can see regulators do is go after the people that create these systems, which in Augur's case wouldn't really help the problem. Augur's still gonna be there even if you go after the founders or the Forecast Foundation or whatever. But we did see something like that happen with a centralized exchange called Ether Delta. We saw the SEC, I believe the SEC sued the creator of Ether Delta, this decentralized exchange, just because he created the software and was responsible for running a web UI, a server that just served the UI for interacting with these smart contracts, which you didn't have to use but you could. He settled out of court. But this kind of weird pseudo precedent where regulatory bodies can go after developers even that just create this software, create the facility for people to go and create markets that create this opportunity for malfeasance and for dangerous actions.   I think we will definitely see this getting negotiated in court and in the court of public opinion.   Chitra: Yeah. A lot of legal funds will be spent even though the underlying problem can't go away because you can't get rid of the system.   Matt: Yeah. Lawyers will make money for sure. It's really a big question mark and that's one of the things that's probably depressing engagement with Augur. Like Augur does get used but it's not, and I think maybe right now there's maybe a couple million dollars of open stake across all the markets. So that's one of the big question marks.   Chitra: And it's just one of the platforms. There are other platforms.   Matt: Other platforms.   Chitra: You're gonna see a lot of these similar problems and challenges confronting…   Matt: Yeah. And if we see regulators move quickly then that can stifle those other creators. The other platforms that are coming out, there's one called Gnosis which I'm actually a big fan of that team. They've produced a lot of really high quality software. But Augur was the first in the market. It might be more difficult for new competitors to enter the space if they're afraid that they're gonna be liable just by the fact of creating a software that could be used for good things, but could also be used for bad things.   Chitra: Let's talk a little bit about dispute resolution because the immutability of a decentralized platform like this is its strength. But when it comes to dispute resolution it also raises questions of how do you resolve disputes when there's a bet? And how does it affect the core value proposition of a blockchain based platform.   Matt: Yeah. So that's a great question because what we really are trying to do with these platforms is inject truth into the immutable blockchain record. We want to figure out what actually happened for all these things people cared enough to bet on. We can't just say that whoever creates the market imports the outcome because he probably has an incentive, one way or the other. We have to know what actually happened. So the way that most of these systems work is that there is a dispute resolution process. That's why we need this REP token in Augur's case. We need this token that represents financial investment in the network as a whole at its market perception. If people consider Augur to be good and useful and valuable, then that token will go up in value.   So they acquire these tokens and then if you hold some amount of REP and you see a market get resolved with an incorrect decision, a decision you believe to be not what actually happened, you can open a dispute by staking, you take your 100 REP and you say no the Red Sox didn't win, it was the Yankees that won. If you get to a certain threshold, this will kick off this dispute resolution process. Basically it's this incrementing scale, in Augur's case specifically. The amount of REP that has to be staked to dispute even a dispute... We have the initial report, someone disputes it and says no it's Red Sox, Yankees, I say no, Red Sox. Then if somebody else is like no it was the Yankees, this guy is messing with us. He just put up 100 REP, he's just messing with the system, he has to get 200 REP from him and all the other people that are watching the network to say no it was the Yankees. This can go back and forth for a long time.   Chitra: There's some real examples of this, one with the recent elections and one with the Yankees, I guess.   Matt: Yeah. This came up because one of the most high profile markets last year on Augur, it launched last year, the US midterm elections. There was a market created for who will control the House of Representatives after the 2018 midterm election. This got at least a million, maybe two million dollars, of open bets placed on this outcome, which right now it's worth maybe a little bit under a hundred million dollars after depreciation. But a lot of people bet on this. I was watching the election, I was watching the platform. I didn't interact with it but I knew a guy that was like yeah it looks like the Democrats are gonna take the house. Democrats are gonna take the house.   So everybody's betting on this. Democrats have a strong advantage because we knew fairly early in the polls it was likely they were gonna take a bunch of House seats. Everyone's watching 538.com and the other CNN.com, and as each state goes in, right up until the end, people are still trading on this market. It was set to resolve on December 10th, so the resolution date was... This is enough time for all the House races to get resolved because some of them would drag on for weeks. So we finally get, Republican shares were worth like one percent of the value and 99 percent of the value is Democrat shares. By the end of the night, Democrats had taken the House.   So everybody's getting chill. It sort of settles down. Everybody's just waiting for December 10th so they can get their money. Then like December 7th or something, a couple days before the resolution date, the guy who created this market, he's the creator, and the creator gets a small fee of whatever share of the market, he posts on Reddit and the tagline is I think it just says ‘I am sorry.’ He explains that the goal of this market was always to reflect who will control the House of Representatives immediately after the midterm elections, not who will control the House on January 1st when the newly elected House of Representatives takes office. So it was the only option, according to the way it's worded, I have to report Republicans because they still currently as of today, as of December 10th, still control the House of Representatives. I think the top comment was something like you just want to watch the world burn don't you? Because that's ludicrous. It was very misleadingly worded market question. So this has a lot of implications.   This of course got disputed but you have to think about it for a second. What actually did happen? If you look at the exact wording, yeah the Republicans controlled the House on December 10th. But that was obviously not the intent of the market, not what everyone understood it to be. So what is the right result? So this guy reports Republicans. And then we go into dispute. Somebody puts up a dispute bond for it was the Democrats. I think we're in the fourth dispute, this still isn't resolved. We're in the fourth dispute round, maybe like I think 700 or 1,000 REP has been staked on aggregate outcomes, and we could see this drag on for a long time.   Chitra: So timing I guess is everything when it comes to some of these things. It's how you word the language, what time zone these things are in, how people interpret it and then you dispute it I guess if you don't agree.   Matt: Yeah but it's also, it's not clear what the right answer is. It's sort of like you're dealing with this adversarial malicious genie that will grant your wish but in a way that kills you. You have to, I'm very concerned about this when I saw this happen. It was kind of morbidly funny, but at the same time it was concerning because this is gonna make a lot of people very, very afraid to interact with this platform if they don't trust that somebody's trying to trip them up with careful wording. So this is a dangerous platform to interact with. So that's sort of a gray area. But what we're gonna likely see based on the chit chat and stuff that we're seeing online is that a lot of people are committed to making sure that the Democratic outcome wins because that's what people understood it to be.   There's also another option. There's an option that can be marked invalid. People can say this is an invalid market because the wording was vague or there was no chance, one of the options was never gonna happen. That is built into the platform, and different prediction market protocols have different ways of dealing with this. But we'll probably see a fair resolution out of this. But if we don't, if we see the Republican outcome win because of this literal wording, then the market creator probably bought a lot of those Republican shares real cheap and is gonna make a bunch of money. So good for him, but bad for the entire network because it's gonna really affect the perspective on Augur.   Chitra: Well, lots to talk about. Fascinating conversation. Do you have any closing thoughts? Where can people learn more about you and the work that you're doing?   Matt: Sure. In closing I would encourage everyone to check out the Augur.net and just see what kind of markets are being discussed there. Because there's another thing that you can do. You can just report. You don't have to bet. You can just report on what happens and there's an opportunity while liquidity is low to make money that way. You just make money from reports saying yeah this is what happened, this is what happened, this is what happened. It's a really easy way to interact with the crypto ecosystem and add value to a network and make sure that we have this really robust powerful accurate way of figuring out what happens, which we know is important in this age of questionable facts and false truths. So this maybe is a way to address that, which we probably should talk about more but... I work at Spring Labs, SpringLabs.com. We're not really consumer facing, but if people want to see stuff about identity verification and credit reporting with blockchain stuff, that's what I do.   Chitra: Great. And how can people reach you if they want to talk to you more?   Matt: My name's Matt Smith. I used to not like that name but now I do because it makes it a little bit harder to Google me.   Chitra: Thanks so much. Great having you.   Matt: I appreciate it, Chitra.  

The cryptocurrency market is in tailspin: major projects are folding, prices are tanking, folks are losing their jobs by the boatload. It’s a unique time for many in the space, and everyone is looking less for bomb-throwers and more for sane, solid analysis. Paul Puey, CEO of Edge Wallet, is the exact right guy to give you the straight view among crypto ruin and devastation.

Paul Puey, founder of Edge, thinks differently than most engineers. Having spent time in observing consumers running businesses like nightclubs and climbing gyms, he unconsciously thinks about the end user. Cryptocurrency companies need to be connected to their users. Paul is one of these rare people that always has an opinion that you didn't see beforehand. An enlightening conversation on the hidden risks of bitcoin storage and how to think about future cryptocurrency adoption. Timestamps: 01:37 - Paul Puey, short bio and how he got in the cryptocurrency world. 04:03 -Been the technical guy in a no-technical business. 07:45 - Get crypto use and how to solve one of the biggest security issues in cryptocurrency. 11:04 - Developing products “Out of sight, out of mind." 13:12 - Is Edge wallet safe to hold large amounts of crypto? 17:49 - How should crypto be used? 19:35 - Store of value as a concept and the stability question. 26:35 - One of the biggest shifts in financial history. 30:50 - “Forking is freedom.” 36:46 - “You are the Edge of the network.”

On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal chats with Kylan Hurt about the life as a developer at Edge wallet, a multi-currency wallet with baked in secure Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality.  We discuss how he became a developer, building a wallet, programming various code bases (like Javascript) and other topics from a dev's perspective. Kylan Hurt, Software Engineer at Edge Kylan is a Software Engineer for Edge Wallet, a team that develops a multi-cryptocurrency wallet software and application. Kylan has worked with such organizations as Intuit, Z Global marketing, Knowledge City, Datagonia and Let's Talk Bitcoin. He is also the organizer of the San Diego Blockchain Development Meetup and previously produced and hosted of The Captain Crypto Show, a discontinued cryptocurrency-related podcast. Edge, a multi-currency wallet with over 15 coins including BTC, ETH, XMR, XRP and more Here is some lore about how Edge (formerly AirBitz) came to be from the company website: Edge’s first product, a bitcoin wallet and business directory, was launched in the winter of 2014, under the company name of “AirBitz” and has been securing millions of dollars worth of bitcoin ever since. Like many others, Airbitz was inspired by the bitcoin revolution and set out from day one to build tools that kept bitcoin users safe and in control. The Airbitz Bitcoin Wallet was the first application of a security model we coined as “Edge Security”. By the end of 2015, we had successfully packaged up the tools that make the Airbitz Wallet awesome into a software development kit (SDK) that developers could use for their own applications. Our “Edge Security” SDK has since been integrated into top-tier blockchain projects such as Augur, Wings, and OpenLedger. Airbitz quickly advanced from a bitcoin wallet in 2014 to a paradigm shifting data security solution and multi-currency wallet in late 2017. Given our company’s evolution and coining of the term, “Edge Security”, we thought it would be best to highlight this focus as the core of our brand.   After listening to this episode you will learn: How Kylan self-started learning programming from a previously dissatisfying job The path he took to go from nothing to building an app (Edge wallet) Why Javascript is a more common language for front-end programming How you can do a lot of backend (server side) programming with Javascript Why other languages force you to configure your own server to write and deploy code What nodes are and why they are critical to decentralization How 0x works as a decentralized exchange protocol A day in the life of a developer at Edge How Edge eats their own dogfood through internal Cryptocurrency usage as a company Why development in the Blockchain space is bleeding edge and people should realize everything is a work in progress   For show notes and more visit: LAB Radio

While in Las Vegas at World Crypto Con we were lucky enough to catch up with Paul Puey CEO and creator of Edge Wallet one of our favorites and the official wallet of The Crypto Show so please use the wallet. Joel Valenzuela also sits in with his witty impersonations of Chuck Williams the co-host of our show. Paul shares with us some of the hurdles of adding new coins to the Edge multi-coin wallet especially in regards to Monero's new Bullet Proofs protocol. Paul is long time friend of the show and this episode was a lot of fun for us.

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On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we talk to returning guest Paul Puey, the founder and CEO of the company behind the popular Airbitz wallet. We talk to Paul about the new rebranding of Airbitz as Edge and dscuss all the new features that the wallet now has with its new launch, including compatibility now with Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and all the ERC20 tokens, new security and privacy features, and a whole lot more. We all discuss some of the upcoming events that Paul will be attending to showcase Edge. Always an interesting, informative, and fun time talking to Paul Puey