Conspiratus

Sunny Aggarwal and Nate Rush

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Conspiratus

Conspiratus is Latin for consensus. Through discourse and discussion, we attempt to reach consensus on the state and future of distributed consensus and decentralization technologies.

07/03/2020

Episode 13 - Clubhouse Elite

In this episode, we discuss a series of topics relating to Silicon Valley and its sociopolitical role in the country. We discuss topics such as:Exploring Social Class Structures of Silicon ValleyConflict of West Coast vs East Coast elitesFailures of San Francisco Local Civic GovernanceSilicon Valley entering national politicsMerits of MeritocracyAndrew Yang and America 3.0Cover Image by Nicole Album

1h 3m
05/19/2020

Episode 12 - Reset Everything

In this episode, Sunny sits down with Sebastien, one of his co-hosts at Epicenter to discuss the Reset Everything virtual event that Sebastien hosted a few weeks ago to explore the long term effects of Covid19 on society. It was a multidisciplinary event covering topics including economics, journalism, privacy, and health. We also ventured off on some other topics such as some World War 1 history, bombs in Berlin, and crypto burnout.

1h 27m
01/26/2020

Episode 11 - Monetary Policy in an International Context

With global commerce and finance continuing to digitize, the world’s borders are seemingly becoming more fluid, even as physical walls are built. How does this globalization affect the sovereignty of nation-states and their ability to democratically direct their own economic future?In a panel moderated by Sunny Aggarwal, we explore the interpretation of monetary policy from a global context, discuss the morality of impacting other nations, and the potential for new technologies to offer alter...

31 min
09/10/2019

Episode 10 - straightEDGEware

Lane Rettig moderates a debate between Sunny and Ryan Zurrer on the merits of Edgeware vs Straightedge and the design decisions that went into things like the generalized lock. With a surprise guest appearance from Dillon Chen, co-founder of Edgeware!

55 min
09/07/2019

Episode 9 - DAOs, Swarms, and Anarchic Systems

In this episode of Conspiratus, we put out a panel on governance that Sunny moderated as part of DappCon 2019, a highlight event event of Berlin Blockchain Week. On the panel are Ameen Soleimani, Stephanie Hurder, Jorge Izquierdo, and Sebastian Gajek.

48 min
08/26/2019

Episode 8 - Fiat Apologism

Learn about the origins of the Federal Reserve system, collapse of the Gold Standard, and Rodrik's Trilemma!

1h 23m
08/18/2019

Episode 7 - Hey Straightedge

In this episode of Conspiratus, Nate and Sunny discuss Straightedge, a novel zero-day fork experiment of the Edgeware project, designed to amend some of the sketchy design decisions made in it's initial distribution. The first of many benevolent byzantine behaviors to come!

19 min
07/24/2019

Episode 6 - Maps of Mortality

In this episode of Conspiratus, Sunny sits down with Eric Meltzer to discuss immortality, death, and Terror Management Theory. Spurred on by a series of tweets Eric put out a few weeks ago, we talk through different strategies for dealing with one's own mortality. And to lighten stuff up, we also learn about the Satoshi's Hunt, a global scavenger hunt for $1 Million in Bitcoin organized by Eric and top secret team of puzzlemasters. Maybe Eric dropped a few hints in this epis...

1h 2m

TRAILER

Episode 0 - Introduction

Welcome to the Conspiratus podcast. Here, we introduce ourselves and our new podcast! Check out the resource list for next weeks discussion here: tinyurl.com/con-1-resources

01/15/2018

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5 min

Conspiratus is Latin for consensus. Through discourse and discussion, we attempt to reach consensus on the state and future of distributed consensus and decentralization technologies.

Creator

Sunny Aggarwal and Nate Rush
Years Active

2018 - 2020
Episodes

14
Rating

Clean
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