Luke Powell Interview Decred in Depth (live)

Luke Powell, Software Developer, and Decred Contractor will be sitting down with us live this Wednesday, April 7 @ 1 pm EST. We will be talking about TLOG, the upcoming politeia consensus change, and its implications for scalability and DAOs. Tune in live for an opportunity to ask Luke a question.

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• 0:00 Intro
• 7:30 Where are you from/childhood memory involving computers
• 8:40 How did you become the lead dev for Politeia?
• 9:50 What attracted you to working on Decred?
• 12:00 What are the biggest changes being made in the v0.2.0 release?
• 20:00 Why was TLOG needed
• 25:25 Why was TLOG needed
• 32:50 What direction do you imagine Politeia goes from here
• 33:46 What is a DAO
• 36:13 Why do traditional corporate structures fail to characterize DAOs
• 37:43 Are DAOs outside of government,s control?
• 38:24 What do you think of DAOs owning digital synthetic representation of real-world assets?
• 39:40 Corporations in 1st industrial revolution & DAOs in the current digital revolution
• 40:35 What does the future of DAOs look like and how does Decred capture a lion's share of that momentum? How does it scale out?
• 41:34 What kind of DAOs can you imagine for the future?
• 43:14 How do you see Decred interacting with other DAOs?
• 44:07 How does Decred’s DAO differ from other DAOs you’ve observed?
• 44:46 What are some interesting use-cases for DCR
• 47:39 How do you see the landscape of privacy vs. regulation playing out and how has Decred positioned itself for likely outcomes?
• 52:32 Are the current VSP auto-vote rules (for example vs. mining empty blocks) set in stone? What are other potential reasons in the future to downvote a block?
• 54:22 What stops working/how do we quickly recover if c0 gets raided by the feds and domain name seized?
• 56:47 Why will smart contract chains inevitably devolve into permissioned chains
• 1:06:00 Luke’s Call to action
• 1:06:55 Smart contract platforms match the old system, but value will flow to Decred like chains
• 1:08:15 problems with projects with no clear governance
• 1:11:23 Live audience questions