#210 Alex Morcos: Chaincode Labs and Why Bitcoin is Our One Shot at Creating Digital Gold

in #epicenter • 7 years ago

Chaincode Labs Founder Alex Morcos joined us to discuss his journey, the role of the company in Bitcoin's development and the views that drive his work.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Alex's background in high frequency trading as a founder of Hudson River Trading
  • How Alex first learned about Bitcoin
  • The vision of Chaincode Labs
  • Why Bitcoin represents our only chance of creating digital gold
  • Why Bitcoin's resistance to change is one of its core features
  • Why the NYA & SegWit2x approach was misguided
  • How getting consensus around a hard fork blocksize increase could work
  • Why Alex is not excited about the efforts to use blockchains in banks

Support the show, consider donating:

BTC: 1CD83r9EzFinDNWwmRW4ssgCbhsM5bxXwg (https://epicenter.tv/tipbtc)
ETH: 0x8cdb49ca5103Ce06717C4daBBFD4857183f50935 (https://epicenter.tv/tipeth)
This episode is also available on :

Epicenter.tv
YouTube
Souncloud
Watch or listen, Epicenter is available wherever you get your podcasts.

Epicenter is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, Sébastien Couture & Meher Roy.

Disclaimer: This steem account is not controlled by the hosts of Epicenter. I format the podcasts posts for Steemit. By voting up this post you show your appreciation for my effort and you encourage the hosts to actually use Steemit.

#bitcoin
7 years ago in #epicenter by
$0.04
  • Past Payouts $0.04, 0.00 TRX
  • - Author $0.04, 0.00 TRX
  • - Curators $0.00, 0.00 TRX
25 votes
Reply 4
Sort:  
  • Trending
    • [-]
     7 years ago 

    Congratulations @epicenterpodcast! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

    You made your First Vote

    Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.
    For more information about SteemitBoard, click here

    If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

    By upvoting this notification, you can help all Steemit users. Learn how here!

    $0.00
      Reply
      [-]
       6 years ago 

      Hi @epicenterpodcast. I'm one of the hosts of Epicenter. Could you drop me an email at [email protected]? Thanks!

      $0.00
        Reply
        [-]
         6 years ago 

        Congratulations @epicenterpodcast! You have received a personal award!

        1 Year on Steemit
        Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor.

        Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:

        The Meet the Steemians Contest is over - Results are coming soon ...

        Support SteemitBoard's project! Vote for its witness and get one more award!

        $0.00
          Reply
          [-]
           5 years ago 

          Congratulations @epicenterpodcast! You received a personal award!

          Happy Birthday! - You are on the Steem blockchain for 2 years!

          You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking

          Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
          $0.00
            Reply

            Coin Marketplace

            STEEM 0.16
            TRX 0.13
            JST 0.027
            BTC 58115.81
            ETH 2623.89
            USDT 1.00
            SBD 2.42