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Show Notes:

[00:00:05] – Intro to episode 3 and what to expect

[00:04:00] – Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain, on how the funding and investing in cryptocurrencies could easily get out of hand

[00:05:00] – How people are creating holding companies to fund cryptocurrencies protocols

[00:06:45] – Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and how they will replace the aforementioned holding companies

[00:08:32] – Could fully decentralized organizations replace other more traditional organizational structures, even outside of cryptocurrency

[00:09:59] – How can DAO’s impact everyday lives

[00:12:39] – Why your skills and accomplishments will become more important than who you are or where you are from

[00:16:09] – Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angellist, on the way humans cooperate and build new entities

[00:17:51] – When people will demand oversight and regulation over cryptocurrency

[00:20:42] – Peter Van Valkenburg, Director of Research at Coincenter on the current state of regulation

[00:26:06] – Jameson Lopp on security needed to protect your cryptocurrency

[00:27:51] – Ari Paul, co-founder of Blocktower, on how nail polish is used to protect their crypto wallet

[00:30:03] – Juan Benet explains the Filecoin Protocol

[00:35:52] – Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Blockstack, on how his team is planning to provide basic tools that will allow the broader developer community to build apps that the cryptocurrency population will use

[00:38:01] – Comparing blockstack to the analogy of creating a city

[00:40:17] – How the blockstack token fits into everything

[00:43:15] – Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, on forking in blockchains

[00:47:52] – Naval Ravikant on how the idea of work will change in the future, and how that change helped to produce the idea of a blockchain in the first place

[00:49:31] – Why curiosity should govern what you do in life

[00:53:22] – Naval’s framework for making money