Tales from the Crypt #63: Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
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🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren from Blockfi to discuss their new interest account product, how they manage risk with this particular offering, the nature of risk disclosures, and the utility that Bitcoin provides the world that wasn't possible before its existence.
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Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures. Head over to https://21lectures.com to learn more about their courses aimed at helping developers become more familiar/comfortable with BTC/LN development!
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| 0:00.0 | So freaks, your boy Marty Bent here to introduce this week's sponsor before we hop into the interview with Zach Prince and Renee Van Kestern from BlockFi. |
| 0:10.2 | This week's episode of Tales from the Crypt is brought to you by 21 lectures. |
| 0:14.0 | 21 lectures mission is to bring more developers to the Bitcoin ecosystem with in-person courses. |
| 0:19.6 | These courses are lectured by world-renowned Bitcoin and Lightning developers. |
| 0:23.6 | Some of you freaks have definitely seen them on Twitter and in other places and GitHub repositories, more importantly. |
| 0:28.6 | The 21 lectures course is teach participants the fundamentals of working with the Bitcoin blockchain and technologies above it like Lightning. |
| 0:36.6 | They cover cryptography, the structure of transactions and blocks and how they are chained |
| 0:40.9 | together, smart contract languages, the Lightning Protocol, as well as software and toolkits to |
| 0:46.5 | develop on top of Bitcoin and Lightning in particular. |
| 0:50.2 | To learn more, visit 21 Lectures.com. |
| 0:52.8 | That's 21 Lectures.com. That's 21 lectures.com. |
| 0:55.0 | You freaks know I'm all about education and spreading the good word about Bitcoin. |
| 0:58.5 | More importantly, making more people aware of what it is and how to interact with it, |
| 1:06.0 | pertinently developers. |
| 1:08.3 | Disclaimer, before we hop into this episode, obviously BlockFi has been a sponsor of this |
| 1:12.6 | podcast in the past. |
| 1:14.3 | Zach reached out to me personally and wanted to catch up and chat. |
| 1:18.2 | We had in chat since last July and also jump into the recent product that BlockFi released, |
| 1:23.3 | the interest-bearing account that got some blowback on Twitter. |
| 1:26.4 | So we sort of sat down and walked through the product and how they're looking at it |
| 1:31.0 | and the risk involved with interacting with it, the privacy stuff, all the stuff that |
| 1:35.8 | you freaks want to hear. |
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