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CRYPTO 101

Ep. 256 - Punk isn't dead...it just learned to code.

CRYPTO 101

Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

News, Business, Investing, Business News, Tech News

4.3841 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk to Horizen CEO and co-founder, Rob Viglione, about libertarianism, privacy, and taking back control. Horizen, formerly known as Zencash, is working closely with Digital Currency Group, Grayscale Investments, and the IOHK Foundation to create a brand new way for developers to collaborate and create an open, privacy-focused internet. Will it be a throwback to the early days of the internet we were used to prior to tracking cookies and logins, or will Horizen form into something else entirely? Tune in to find out exactly what Horizen means when they say, “Bringing Privacy to Life.” Guest Links: https://twitter.com/robviglione https://twitter.com/horizenglobal https://www.horizen.global/spherebyhorizen/ Show Links: CRYPTO101podcast.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Twitter: twitter.com/Crypto101Pod twitter.com/BrycePaul101 twitter.com/PizzaMind www.instagram.com/crypto_101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto/ https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast/ **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2019 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Fog by DIZARO https://soundcloud.com/dizarofr Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/Fog-DIZARO Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lAfbjt_rmE8 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Our Sponsors: * Check out Mars Men: https://mengotomars.com * Check out NPR: https://npr.org * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.quince.com * Check out Scribe and use my code Scribe.how/CRYPTO101 for a great deal: https://scribe.com/Crypto101 * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Greetings and salutations, CripNation, Crip Nation, Bryce Paul and the coal-fired pizza mine himself here at your service today.

0:20.0

And that's not all. Today we have Rob Viglione,

0:24.2

CEO of Horizon, with us on the show today. This guy, Rob, man, he is unbelievable. He's a champion

0:30.6

of privacy, and Horizon is working to build a new privacy-focused internet. Think about that.

0:37.6

Privacy-focused internet, you say.

0:40.6

Is that like how Web 1.0 was

0:43.0

before Pop-Up started begging for my email address every five seconds?

0:46.8

Bro, it's beyond that.

0:48.3

I mean, this is like really cutting-edge blockchain technology

0:51.4

with zero-knowledge proofs.

0:53.1

It's secured by proof of work.

0:55.0

Okay, well, that sounds kind of cool. But there's situations that do call for transparency

0:59.4

and kind of require it. Like, I don't want to buy something online not knowing where it's coming

1:03.5

from. Well, they thought of that. So while many other platforms are either open or like completely

1:08.5

private, Horizon makes privacy an optional feature.

1:11.6

So depending on the situation, both the users and the developers could give one another just

1:15.5

the right amount of information. However, the whole entire network is encrypted end to end.

1:20.5

So this makes stuff like packet sniffing and other traditional attack vectors on the regular

1:24.1

internet totally obsolete.

1:26.1

Wow, that's pretty impressive.

1:28.2

But I've heard all sorts of great ideas and white papers that never really got finished.

1:33.3

And what Horizon is doing sounds really hard.

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