Tales from the Crypt #18: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt I

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Join Marty as he sits down with brothers James and Will O'Beirne to talk about Bitcoin and Ethereum. James is now a full-time Bitcoin Core contributor, working at Chaincode Labs. Will is a part of the MyCrypto.com team and finally gives us a peek into the mind of someone building on and around Ethereum. The conversation meanders through many topics including prediction markets, Proof-of-Work v. Proof-of-Stake, the philosophy behind these technologies, and the current state of the space.

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0:00.0	Tales from the Crypt.
0:09.1	What is up Freaks?
0:10.2	Welcome back to Tales from the Crypt.
0:12.4	Very excited for this week's episode.
0:14.3	We have the Brothers O'Burn in the studio.
0:17.5	Unfortunately, the first five minutes of our conversation got cut off so you're going to miss
0:22.7	the intro so I'm going to do that now we have will O'Burn and James O'Burn will is working on
0:30.9	my crypto.com working on apps and sort of the tangential apps of Ethereum so So we're going to get an Ethereum perspective on this episode.
0:40.3	And then James, his older brother, is working at Chain Code Labs, contributing to Bitcoin Core full-time.
0:45.3	So we have a pretty polarizing pair of brothers here.
0:50.3	We get into a very interesting conversation.
0:52.3	We talked for about three hours. So I had to cut it up
0:55.0	into two episodes. So here is the first hour and a half. Hope you guys enjoy. We've moved on from
1:01.7	maybe not entirely from that conversation, but it certainly carries less weight now compared to all
1:08.0	the good. And I think prediction markets are going to go the same way where
1:12.6	assassination markets is the first thing that we talk about now. But later we're going to see
1:17.3	all sorts of interesting byproducts of it.
1:20.2	Yeah. I mean, so I come from a background of futures markets. And that's how you set
1:26.3	prices for goods and sort of predict how
1:28.4	much corn there's going to be in the going to use price price pointers and if you could if you can make
1:33.5	this more equitable and more more distributed that's fucking incredible i mean yeah because markets aren't
1:39.5	always efficient for what it's worth i just want to put a footnote in there that we should stick up for drugs.
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