Episode 1238

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, Facebook hits $1T + Alchemy’s Nikil Viswanathan - AWS for Blockchain | E1238

Jun 29, 20211:04:11Watch on YouTube

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00:00 Start

2:18 Sam Altman’s iris-enabled “Worldcoin”

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11:16 Facebook hits $1T market cap, beats two antitrust cases

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18:29 Jason intros Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan

20:44 Understanding Alchemy “AWS for the blockchain”

28:24 SVB - 50% of U.S. tech & life sciences companies bank with SVB learn more at https://svb.com/twist

29:24 Blockchain limitations and concerns, do they matter if we’re still in the early days?

33:33 Breaking down NFTs

38:05 Tether & other stablecoins

44:09 Does Flow have a chance at unseating Ethereum?

54:22 Alchemy's mission

56:16 The promise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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