Great Introduction to CryptoCurrencies for Newcomers - Tim Ferriss Podcast ft. Naval Ravikant and Nick Szabo

Greetings,

I wanted to share a podcast I came across recently explaining the fundamentals of CryptoCurrencies.  As a newbie investor, I found a lot of value in this podcast.  Tim and Naval do a really great job with the questioning and transitioning from simple to complex concepts.  

http://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/

Topics Covered:

• What is Bitcoin, what are cryptocurrencies, and what problem do they solve?
• What is “social scalability?”
• What is Ethereum and what makes it unique? Strengths and weaknesses?
• How will smart contracts actually get adopted or go mainstream?
• What are ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings)?
• Blockchain governance — is there any existential risk?
• “Wet” versus “dry” code
• Pascal’s scams
• Quantum thought
• What fields will you be working on in the future?

Although it's about 2.5 hours long, the information is constantly engaging.  I typically listen to my podcasts on 1.5x speed, so it definitely went by fast.

Cheers,

@brianjuice