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Unchained

Can Gavin Wood's Polkadot 'Make Blockchain Great Again'? - Ep.202

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, Kusama, and Parity, discusses what he calls the "meta-protocol," Polkadot. In this episode, he talks about: his vision for Polkadot and the problems he set out to solve when conceiving it why he considers Polkadot a meta-protocol the implementation of parachains and parathreads, how they are defined and how they differ parachain auctions and candle auctions how DDoS attacks can be prevented on parachains initial parachain offerings and how they differ from initial coin offerings and avoid the regulatory problems that were so common with ICOs on-chain governance on Polkadot and how it works how immediate implementation of proposals that pass consensus will prevent forks his answer to those who point to Parity's history with security lapses as cause for concern about Polkadot's security how he sees Polkadot co-existing with Ethereum whether Polkadot is working toward composability how the Web3 Foundation and Parity plan to use their collective stake of DOTs within the network how he plans to address the possibility that DOT could be labeled a security how he imagines Polkadot will serve the enterprise world and how Polkadot will benefit enterprise blockchains   Thank you to our sponsors!  1inch: https://1inch.exchange Crypto.com: https://www.crypto.com   Episode links:  Gavin Wood: https://twitter.com/gavofyork Polkadot: https://polkadot.network Kusama: https://kusama.network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Cryptopians is out now. It contains a new afterward covering recent

0:06.5

developments in crypto since 2021 when the book went to press. Plus this

0:11.2

version names the person I suspect to be the Dow hacker.

0:14.0

In case you never got to read the book in hardback, or, like me, you like to read

0:18.5

paperbacks or bedtime reading, order today. Check our newsletter and the show notes for the link or just search for it at any of your favorite bookstores.

0:26.0

It's The Cryptopians.

0:28.0

Idealism, greed, lies, and the making of the first big cryptocurrency craze.

0:32.0

Thanks for reading. making of the first big cryptocurrency craze.

0:32.6

Thanks for reading.

0:33.6

Hi everyone, and welcome to Unchained.

0:38.8

I'm your host, Laura Shin.

0:40.8

This week on the show, I have a fireside chat I conducted with parody and

0:44.4

Pocodot founder Gavin Wood at the Pocodot-decoded conference last week.

0:48.3

Gavin answered my questions while sipping whiskey which those of you watching the video will see.

0:54.0

In this episode, we discuss what his vision was in creating Pogodot,

0:58.0

what kinds of parachains he expects will be created there,

1:01.0

and how he believes Pogodot can coexist with Ethereum. We also

1:04.9

discuss whether Defi-like composability will ever be possible on Pocodot,

1:09.4

whether Dodds are a security and Paradise history with security lapses and how that could

1:14.9

affect Pocodots since all parachanes share security provided by the base layer.

1:20.3

It was a fun and fascinating conversation and I hope you enjoy it.

1:24.0

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