Augur Founder Jeremy Gardner Explains Augur.net and Prediction Markets

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Gardner is a man of many endeavors and talents. He helped develop Augur, a blockchain based prediction market, scheduled for release in Q1 or Q2 2017, is a member of the Blockchain Education Network, Editor-in-Chief at The Distributed Ledger magazine, and is a venture capitalist and angel investor in various tech companies.
Jeremy dives deep into the workings and reasoning behind the creation of Augur, (built on the ethereum platform), an upcoming global, decentralized prediction market. Because it is decentralized, Augur will harness the wisdom of the crowd to set odds and predictions on various events such as “who will win the 2020 presidential election?”, “how much rainfall will Buenos Aires experience during May 2016”, and more.
Jeremy also discusses some the most exciting cryptocurrencies, tokens and blockchain use cases right now and what he considers to be the greatest challenges the industry faces.
By listening to influential market makers and people like Jeremy Gardner, you'll be sure to have your mind blown. Make sure to subscribe, share and review this podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:08.0	Future Technologies Boys to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.7	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:27.0	Hi this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost Almost Here Around the Corner Technology.
0:35.0	And today I'm speaking to Jeremy Gardner, a man of many endeavors and talents.
0:40.0	I had thought he was linked solely to BTC Media.org but Jeremy seems to be involved in quite a lot of projects
0:48.6	so I'm going to let him do an intro because he can do it far better than I could. So welcome Jeremy, how you doing?
0:54.0	Thanks for having me. Yeah, as you said, I mean, I've been in this industry for nearly three
1:00.6	years now and that's kind of opened up both a realm of opportunity and
1:05.2	a kind of a lot of different paths that I've charted down.
1:08.7	It all began when I was at the University of Michigan and founded what was then known as a college
1:14.7	cryptocurrency network now known as the blockchain education network. It
1:19.3	started as three Bitcoin clubs at Stanford, MIT in Michigan and we kind of collaborated.
1:27.0	I suggested we kind of created network out of it, became a registered nonprofit.
1:32.0	Within about six months we had over a hundred chapters on every
1:35.8	habitable continent, 20 plus countries. Now the now the nonprofit is federally tax exempt and has expanded all over the world with over I think
1:47.8	300 or 400 chapters of student organizations to learn,
1:53.4	develop around blockchain and Bitcoin technology.
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