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CRYPTO 101

Ep. 465 - Building Protocols Based on Freedom of Expression, With Michael O’Rourke of Pocket Network

CRYPTO 101

Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

Business, Investing

4.6821 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this episode of Crypto 101, brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs and ZenGo, we talk to Michael O’Rourke of Pocket Network about the relationship between decentralization and censorship resistance when it comes to crypto as a whole, along with how he is incorporating these ideas into his company and products. Sponsored link: www.linkedin.com/crypto www.zengo.com/crypto101 Guest Links: https://twitter.com/o_rourke https://twitter.com/POKTNetwork https://www.pokt.network/ Show Links: https://CRYPTO101podcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Crypto101Pod https://twitter.com/BrycePaul101 https://instagram.com/crypto_101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2022 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 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition, another high caliber episode here at the Crypto 101 podcast.

0:19.0

Wherever you guys are in the world, guys, whatever time it is, you're in the right place

0:24.7

because we are joined today not only by my trusty compadre, my notorious co-host, Mr. Pizza

0:32.0

Mine Malone, who's with me every day.

0:34.4

Today we're joined by a very special guest, Michael O'Rourke, who is the CEO and co-founder

0:39.3

of Pocket Network, Inc., the company that's building the protocol Pocket Network. So, Michael,

0:46.3

welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me, Bryce, and glad to be here again.

0:53.1

Absolutely. I think this is not the first time we've chatted.

0:55.1

Yeah, no, in Pocket Network, it's a pretty developer-centric ecosystem.

1:01.7

You know, it's one of these things that mostly, you know, developers are using and building,

1:06.2

you know, more decentralized, more robust applications.

1:10.0

So we're going to dive into that. First, let me check

1:12.1

in on Mr. Pizza Mind over here. How are we doing? Are you hanging in there?

1:16.2

I'm doing well, actually. Again, not sleeping so great, but I'm being kept up by thoughts of

1:21.8

Web3 and the excitement of what's being built there and the possibilities that Web3 brings to the world.

1:29.5

We've talked to so many different Web3 developers on the podcast and everyone's talking about

1:34.5

increasing privacy, increasing decentralization, putting power back in the hands of the average

1:40.6

person. But what the culmination of all these efforts can enable is actually something so much

1:48.1

greater than just those things, even something greater than Bitcoin.

1:53.0

If Bitcoin itself is kind of like digital stateless cash, what Web3 is, or what it could

2:00.2

be, if done right, is reversing the cash flow of the world

2:04.9

from all these giant Web 2 and tech companies back in the hands of everybody, and then

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