The Web3 Puzzle: Decoding Scammers, Web3 lending, and Scalability with Chad Barraford

This episode of the #citizencosmos podcast features Chad Barraford A Core Dev from THORchain a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that allows users to swap assets between blockchain networks. THORChain is a settlement layer that facilitates swaps between Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Cosmos Hub, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin. We spoke to Chad about THORchain and: - Early AI and their uses - Crypto as a vehicle for furthering human rights and empowering the people. - A 10-hour work week - Problem solving in computational science. - The birth of THORChain from a hackathon - Identifying and solving hair on fire problems. - Unique Web3 lending - Shifting the Web3 lending paradigm - The Origins of The Twitter Spam Assassin - The importance of separating money from state - Defining a scammer in Web3 - Challenges around scalability - Learning through a freedom of exploration and building on past failures - When does a Defi design become too dangerous? - The imperative of the Crypto community to explore. - Honesty as a lynchpin of ethical development. - Bare metal for security - Evolution of automobiles and protocols - Tax mistakes If you like what we do at Citizen Cosmos: - Stake with Citizen Cosmos validator - Help support the project via Gitcoin Grants - Listen to the YouTube version - Read our blog - Check out our GitHub - Join our Telegram - Follow us on Twitter - Sign up to the RSS feed Special Guest: Chad Barraford.Links:Apple ScriptBitcoinCantoCarl SaganCosmosDo KwonElon MuskHotstuffIOTAJack ZampolinLightning NetworkLitecoinOmniflixPale Blue DotPocket NetworkR StudioSkyy NetworkSteve JobsTendermintTerraTHORChain

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Citizen Web3 provides infrastructure services as a validator across the blockchain space. It is one of the oldest web3 podcasts in the space and a community of like-minded people. Our flagship product (in the making): www.validatorinfo.com is a dashboard and an explorer that helps you to discover validators across the space. We believe in the power of decentralized communities and the potential of blockchains to build a better world. For us blockchains are not just digital technologies, but they are similar to natural hives, forests, and patterns in the environment that allow us to communicate better. We value security, decentralization, privacy, and lack of enforcement. Open and verifiable blockchains should be viewed as digital nations and that our role is to help build and bring value to these nations.