Decred in Depth Ep. 43 - Chris Dannen + Design Thinking + Decred's Future

Eduardo will be sitting down with Chris Dannen, Founder and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital. Iterative Capital is a New-York based cryptocurrency investment manager with holdings in #Decred.

According to Iterative's website, "[Iterative's] focus on decred is merited by its innovations in the area of organizational design. . . . Decred has surpassed Bitcoin in project velocity thanks in part to its use of scalable trust-minimized contracting and engineering management system."

https://iterative.capital/?__cf_chl_j...

Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisdannen

Join us Sept. 3,  2021 at 1pm 0:00

• Intro 1:25 What is your background?
• 2:58 Why Decred vs Bitcoin?
• 5:59  What narrative does Decred fulfill
• 9:24 What is “design thinking” and why is Decred’s unique
• 14:23 bitcoin destroys organizational structure
• 19:56 PoW facilitating economic activity in an untrusted environment”
• 23:17 PoW vs PoS vs Hybrid and divergence between reality and narratives?
• 26:12 future of energy markets and how does DCR fit in? - @checkmate
• 28:42 Decred denominated debts
• 38:30 Market making + dark pool + price suppression allegations
• 48:33 bypassing CEX adoption by focusing on DCRDEX
• 51:23 Thoughts on Stakeshuffle+DEX
• 57:20 BitGo and merchant adoption?
• 1:03:35 What is the role of an investor in an open-source digital token alignment incentive
• 1:07:45 How to attract Institutional Investors. Why no custodial solutions Institutions?
• 1:10:31 What is the progress/plans around EscherApp
• 1:14:20 What can Decred do to appeal to the masses

Find out more about Decred: https://decred.org