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Ethereum applications live on a spectrum of trust. With humans at one end, and computers at the other, DeFi apps have different components of robots and humans.

Episode: #6
April 6, 2020

Different Ethereum applications require different amounts of trust, depending on how each app is designed. This episode discusses how to think and measure the trustlessness of each app, and where the humans and computers meet. 

Episode: #5
March 30, 2020
Most people identify memes are internet images with text, or reaction gifs. Memes are much more than that; they are a tool for information transmission at the largest possible scale. 

Memes are little packets of data that hop from brain to brain. They can transfer data across the globe and also across time!
Join David and Ryan as they explore the role that memes have in crypto, and some of cryptos best and worst memes!
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Episode: #4
March 23th, 2020

There are three asset "superclasses"
- Store of Value
- Capital Asset
- Commodity Asset

Join Ryan and David as they explore the boundaries between asset types, and discover where Ether lies in relation to these three classes. 

Additionally, Ryan and David compare and contrast the economic and financial institutions that make up the world we know, and how they relate to these three classifications. 

Episode: #3

March 15th, 2020

While the internet revolution is all about data, the crypto revolution is all about value. Scaling the internet is all about scaling data bandwidth, but scaling crypto is all about economic bandwidth. 

Join Ryan and David as they explore the concept of economic bandwidth and how it relates to crypto-systems. 

https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereum-is-an-emergent-structure

Date: Monday, March 9nd
Episode: #2

How did money get to where it is today? David and Ryan explore the historical progress of money, and the management of money, across time. We ask questions like "what makes good money" and "how does money get managed" and "who gets to manage money, and why"

We end with a comparison of the different money management policies of each respective crypto-system, and how each system arrived at that conclusion

Date: Monday, March 2nd
Episode: #1
Bankless is a podcast about leveraging the revolution in Internet money and internet finance to benefit you as an individual. Join Ryan and David for a journey into the frontier, where both treasure and bandits await!
Bankless is all about replacing the traditional financial system with internet protocols for money and finance. Ryan and David are here to discuss how these protocols work, how they benefit the individual, and how the world may come to adopt and use these systems as they have the internet.
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