Conspiratus
Conspiratus is Latin for consensus. Through discourse and discussion, we attempt to reach consensus on the state and future of distributed consensus and decentralization technologies.
Episodes
14 episodes
Episode 13 - Clubhouse Elite
In this episode, we discuss a series of topics relating to Silicon Valley and its sociopolitical role in the country. We discuss topics such as:Exploring Social Class Structures of Silicon ValleyConflict of West...
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Episode 13
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1:02:55
Episode 12 - Reset Everything
In this episode, Sunny sits down with Sebastien, one of his co-hosts at Epicenter to discuss the Reset Everything virtual event that Sebastien hosted a few weeks ...
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Episode 12
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1:27:09
Episode 11 - Monetary Policy in an International Context
With global commerce and finance continuing to digitize, the world’s borders are seemingly becoming more fluid, even as physical walls are built. How does this globalization affect the sovereignty of nation-states and their ability to democrati...
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Episode 11
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31:10
Episode 10 - straightEDGEware
Lane Rettig moderates a debate between Sunny and Ryan Zurrer on the merits of Edgeware vs Straightedge and the design decisions that went into things like the generalized lock. With a surprise guest appearance from Dillon Chen, co-founder...
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Episode 10
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55:18
Episode 9 - DAOs, Swarms, and Anarchic Systems
In this episode of Conspiratus, we put out a panel on governance that Sunny moderated as part of DappCon 2019, a highlight event event of Berlin Blockchain Week. On the panel are Ameen Soleimani, Stephanie Hurder, Jorge Izquierdo, and Seb...
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Episode 9
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48:10
Episode 8 - Fiat Apologism
Learn about the origins of the Federal Reserve system, collapse of the Gold Standard, and Rodrik's Trilemma!
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Episode 8
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1:23:03
Episode 7 - Hey Straightedge
In this episode of Conspiratus, Nate and Sunny discuss Straightedge, a novel zero-day fork experiment of the Edgeware project, designed to amend some of the sketchy design decisions made in it's initial distribution. The first of many ben...
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Episode 7
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19:18
Episode 6 - Maps of Mortality
In this episode of Conspiratus, Sunny sits down with Eric Meltzer to discuss immortality, death, and Terror Management Theory. Spurred on by a series of tweets Eric put out a few weeks ago, we talk through different strategies for dealing...
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Episode 6
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1:01:32
Episode 5 - Zebras and Libras
In this episode of Conspiratus recorded live at ZCon1, Sunny and Drew Stone of Commonwealth discuss Edgeware, governance of ZCash, and the implications of Facebook's new Libra project.
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Episode 5
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46:18
Episode 4 - Social Contracts and Social Capital
In the episode of Conspiratus, we discuss the social contracts of different blockchain communities and how it impacts their respective governances. We also discuss the ability to "dissent" in different communities and talk about the level...
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Episode 4
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28:41
Episode 3 - A Cosmic Commotion
In the episode of Conspiratus, we discuss some of the latest current events on the Cosmos Hub, including the recent security patch hard fork, the Google Cloud downtime that affected many validators, and some general discussion around Cosmos gov...
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Episode 3
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41:04
Episode 2 - The Elephant in the Room
In this episode of Conspiratus, we discuss the one year hiatus from making episodes. We explain some of the causes of the break, what we've been doing in that time, and our plans for the future of Conspiratus.
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Episode 2
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29:07
Episode 1 - Protocol Governance
Our first full Conspiratus epsiode where we discuss protocol governance with our two guests, Vlad Zamfir and Arthur Breitman. Check out the associated reading list for this episode here: https://conspirat.us/podcast-resources-1-protocol-governan...
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Episode 1
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