Chatting With Blockchain Veteran Esteban Ordano About the Future of Crypto

Discussing the allure of crypto, where it’s headed, and his latest project.

Franco Zeoli
Jul 21, 2017 · 4 min read

Esteban is the Tech Lead at Decentraland, the first blockchain-enabled virtual world powered by cryptocurrency. Previously, Esteban co-founded Zeppelin Solutions and invented Streamium, the first app implementing payment channels, a crucial technology for scaling blockchain payments. As a former software engineer at BitPay, he co-created one of the leading Bitcoin infrastructure libraries, known as Bitcore. He was also on the teams behind Copay (a bitcoin wallet), Insight (a bitcoin blockchain API), and Poet (a blockchain-based publication tool).

What got you involved in crypto?

Why have you turned your focus to virtual reality?

Can you give us an example?

What’s next for crypto?

Can you explain that?

Nowadays, the most successful large scale organizations base their power on the sheer number of people involved. Governments, corporations, and the internet are examples of these organizations: it is almost impossible for a competing product or organization to overtake them due to their vast network effects.

I believe that we will see a similar effect with smart contracts removing intermediaries.

If a group starts to use consensus rules that align incentives for all its actors, and those incentives are well engineered, then the network will grow until everyone that could be on it joins because of fairer conditions or better incentives than the alternatives.

How are these concepts already being implemented?

What concerns you about the evolution of cryptocurrency markets and technologies today?

Let’s talk about your latest project, Decentraland. Why is it important to build?

What are you most excited about?

What about the Decentraland team excites you?

Which other crypto projects are you excited about?

What work are you doing outside of crypto?

Favorite book?

Biggest role model?

Coffee or tea?

Final words:

Join the Decentraland Community

Decentraland

A blockchain-based virtual reality world.

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Franco Zeoli

Written by

Co-founder at Nomic Labs.

Decentraland

A blockchain-based virtual reality world.

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