[Interview] Dan Larimer - A Prescient Retrospective - Part 1 of 3
On April 3rd, 2015, Cryptofresh Pictures had the chance to interview Dan Larimer at the Bitshares headquarters in Blacksburg, Virginia.
While some of the footage from that interview was included in the original Bitshares Peer To Peer Tour Video, the rest has not been seen, until now.
In a wide-ranging and forward-thinking interview, Dan Larimer gives us some insight into his personal philosophy, as well as his perspectives on the many issues, possibilities, and opportunities confronting those within the cryptocurrency space, and the whole of society.
In Part 1 - @dantheman answers these questions:
Why now?What gives you hope?How do cryptocurrencies like Bitshares help solve some of the issues that stem from deregulated financial industries?
-and-What do you see as the ideal form of human organization?
To many on Steemit, @dan, or @dantheman, needs no introduction.
Dan Larimer is the co-founder, and lead developer of several second generation cryptocurrencies including Bitshares, Steem, and is currently leading the development of the EOS blockchain as CTO of BlockOne.
Video Produced By Cryptofresh Pictures
During the Bitshares Peer To Peer Tour
With @lovejoy & @roadscape.
April 03, 2015
In my estimation, Dan's words are still just as relevant as ever, and amazingly so considering they were recorded over 2 years ago! Dan Larimer answered all our questions with only a cursory awareness of what we were about to ask him. I hope you all enjoy the video and hopefully, the interview will spark some interesting discussion here.
Best wishes,
@lovejoy
Watch Part 2 Here:
Dan Larimer - A Prescient Retrospective - Part 2 of 3
nice to see @dantheman in this way, it's crucial that people understand the backstory of a person when they can visually see someone eye to eye in this manner, nice one for recording it! great timing to release it now - upvoted and resteemed (now watching the rest)
Thank you! I'm grateful for the positive words, I couldn't agree with you more.
Cheers!
Please votes me. Because my steem power is low that's why i couldn't poat on steemit. Please votes me follow me. Please......
:)
Another True Flip spam ad. Please, have some tact. You're hurting the reputation of True Flip with this method of promotion... I saw @kevinwong (whom I respect) wrote a post about the merits of collaboration with True Flip, but the more I see this, the more I dislike @trueflip, savvy?
I totally agree with this!
Lovely day to all!
So many extra details come to light about a person when you actually get to see them and interact with them in person, even via a recording such as this interview.
yep, absolutely. as someone who did a lot of interviewing in person you get to see all the uncurated elements but what i can see from the video is a starting point for dialog which you cannot get from text!
Really enjoyed that interview and it was good to see a face to the name @dan. I'm still new to steemit and cryptocurrencies in general but i'm keen and eager to learn.Dan is definitely on to something here,the things i've learnt in the last 3 weeks have amazed me.It seems like this could be a turning point in time, an end to the super elite who control the whole planet.Power and wealth can be given back to society.
Bitshares isn't really a cryptocoin since it doesn't have a Proof of Work security model. People have tried things similar to Proof of Stake since before Bitcoin and they never worked. Bitcoin has worked because it has PoW. It's what made it a cryptocoin. Bitshares is just using the blockchain hype to sell a scam coin. Sorry, but it true.
This. Cryptocurrency, decentralization and everything that Dan writes in code and is able to put to words is what the 60's generation put in motion 50 years ago. We are taking it all out of the hands of "trusted third parties" and moving the human race forward away from control and toward freedom and free will.
Sounds good to me.
Yes, yes, and YES! :) Glad to have you here. Thanks for your thoughtful comment!
Enjoy every moment because a lot of power will be coming back.
Dan has created something big. He's a blockchain superstar now.
I love Dan's quote in the video: "I believe there is a way to structure society to be completely voluntary and non-violent."
Love this vision!
I really love this quote, and vision as well!
I've been meeting so many lovers of Peace in this community that it's giving me a new sense of hope for the future. :)
Check out what tau chain and agoras will do for humanity. Even a child will be able to program on tau, as it will be using a new language. The future is here and it looks hopeful now
I want to learn more about both of those project. I've briefly come across them but their website seemed very hard to get some good info. Do you know of a better place to learn more than this site? Thanks so much. Great to be connected!
http://www.idni.org/tauchain
Makes you wonder why he isn't more in the spotlight...
this is an awesome thing so infomative
Long live Blockchain.
Yep... lol ;)
Agreed, Dan has a bright future ahead of him.
Long live steemit.
It is so nice to see that such an influential person within the crypto space, have such positive views on the future of blockchain tech. If he wasn't an anarchist, i would say "Dan for president".
Surpassing the Bitcoin devs now and the example to coding what Andreas Antonopoulos is to Bitcoin speeches.
no doubt about it :)
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The platform is already working and making a profit :)
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Even if true flip is legit, and amazing... (Which I doubt based on your promotional technique) this is the wrong place, and wrong way to promote it. Flagged for Spam.
wow...
good interview.
thanks for sharing :)
I feel that it's so important to hear this type of information from someone as prolific as @dan. I could not agree more with his conclusion of blockchains ability to increase the freedom of one's property pertaining to certain events. In my opinion, one's freedom and rights pertaining to their property are of most importance. Dan's words still carry much of the same weight two years ago as they do today as myself and many others would agree that we are still in the early stages of blockchains development and implementation. Thanks much for sharing this @lovejoy. Looking forward to seeing the second 2 parts of the series!
I wonder why Dan Larimer is the co-founder, and lead developer of too many second generation cryptocurrencies,
I f He put all his focus in One of them,, I mean Steem here, and apply all the features and technology that others like Bitshares and EOS have. this will make Steem in the Place of Ethereum or Even more.
This is my point of view.
Cheers.
Dan's work is done here. The Steem blockchain itself is lightyears ahead.
The development that's needed on Steem now is front-end development, which they are working on! I for one love that Dan is always pushing the frontier of what's possible in the blockchain space!Edit: While Dan's work may be done here, I spoke too soon!
Ned says:
There's plenty of back end development needed, fyi
I am looking forward to what the future holds @ned. I heard from nate regarding thoughts on moving away from @dan suggestion of using ringCT for confidential transactions. Not sure I feel too great about that because of the heavy research that ringCT has undergone..it is vetted crypt0 compared to most. The best we have imo for confidential transactions. With that said I have faith the team you are leading to make the best moves possible. Privacy is a very important right and the STEEM blockchain is capable of delivering it to the entire world.
Hey Ned! Thanks, I guess I was under the impression that things were well along in that department. I stand corrected! I hope Steem / Steemit has all the talented backend developers it needs!
Yes @lovejoy dan has done a great amount of the work and laid a solid foundation but many features are still to come.
Steem doesn't currently have the technology to handle traffic that Facebook has etc. There's a lot to be done at both ends.
Need improvements in ways that users can be presented with content that is customized to their interests. That would have a big impact on the future rate of growth of the user base.
Is graphene a blockchain or another tech all by itself? Steemit and Bitshares were just a test to implement EOS. In other words, EOS would contain both features (a social media platform and a token exchange platform of some kind similzr to bitshares but more improved). Expect to see another social media platform built on EOS, in the near future.
You can think of Graphene, aka 'The Graphene Toolkit' as "an industrial strength software platform for deploying third generation cryptographically secure decentralized ledgers known as block chains" - http://docs.bitshares.org/
The Graphene Family of blockchains include Bitshares, Steem, Muse, Peerplays. And EOS is essentially a further expansion upon this toolkit.
Steem and Bitshares could both decide to migrate to EOS in the future... it will be up to the respective communities to decide what's best for them. For now, EOS is still in development, so I expect Bitshares and Steem to be quite relevant, and independent, for quite a while.
Ok thanks for the info. I just havent had time to read indepth into the tech. Will try to touch on it later on.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I agree, and I think you'll find the next two parts to be even more thought provoking! :)
Oh goodness, I just got excited!
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nice video
Nice
Without a Proof of Work model for creating coins, they're worthless. What you pay for bitshares is equal to how much you're being defrauded.
Proof of Stake doesn't work. PoS has never worked. PoS coins shouldn't even be called cryptocoins.
Hey lovejoy, congrats and all. I am jealous because dan doesn't upvote my marketing. I would like to get some feedback from him if I should continue or not.
Dan doesn't upvote much... don't take it personally. I appreciate what you do... I can't help with the feedback though. "Do your work, and then step back, the only path to serenity." -Tao Te Ching
ok thank you.