Ep. 260 - Life in the White House and Better Smart Contracts w/ Ed Felten of Offchain Labs

CRYPTO 101

Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

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🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Former Deputy CTO of the White House. Princeton Computer Science Professor. Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs. Ed Felten sits with CRYPTO 101 to talk about his time in the White House, and why he chose to solve cryptocurrency related problems. He presents big concepts in a super digestible way-- no technobabble, just straight shooting. Ed paints a beautiful picture of what a future running on smart contracts looks like...the “Cambrian Explosion” of decentralized applications is upon us. Guest Links: https://twitter.com/EdFelten https://twitter.com/OffchainLabs 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 * Check out Webroot and use my code webroot.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.webroot.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What's up, Krip Nation?
0:11.5	Today is Thursday, August 29th.
0:15.0	It's a great day.
0:16.0	Tomorrow is going to be Friday, and we got a Saturday,
0:18.0	and then we have the day that everybody has been waiting for.
0:22.0	On Sunday, September 1st, the winner of BRD's one Bitcoin giveaway is going to be announced in the app.
0:28.1	So remember, go ahead, download BRD, poke around the app, generate your wallet.
0:32.7	You're going to get prompted by a golden ticket giveaway.
0:36.5	And you go ahead and click that, you're going to be
0:38.0	entered for a chance to win one shiny, freshly minted Bitcoin. And you probably have your
0:44.5	life changed forever. I prefer Bitcoin of the more vintage variety, you know, one that's gotten
0:51.4	around the block a few times. Well, you know, it's different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
0:55.7	Crip Nation, please let us know if it's you because we would love to bring you on the show
0:59.3	to talk about your experience using the BRD wallet and what you're going to be doing with your wealth.
1:04.1	So without further ado, Bryce, why don't you introduce today's guest?
1:07.3	Absolutely.
1:08.0	Yeah, we're joined today by Ed Felton. And he's, I mean, wouldn't you say he's
1:11.3	probably one of the most impressive guests we've had on the show? Without a doubt. Yeah, I mean,
1:15.4	we're honored to be joined by him and let's just kick it off, right? So for starters, he was the
1:19.8	deputy CTO for the White House under the Obama administration. What a CTO of a White House does, I don't know, but we're going to get into that.
1:30.1	He's a computer science professor at Princeton, and he's the chief scientist at off-chain labs,
1:35.8	who are building a bunch of products for developers to bring a lot of efficiency and safety to their smart contract development.
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