Episode #15: ‘What’s So Great About the Blockchain?’ (Part 2 — Electric Boogaloo w/ Adrianne Jeffries)
An interview with journalist Adrianne Jeffries about her Verge article “Blockchain is Meaningless” and why exactly IBM needs to get into the blockchain
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In this episode:
- @adrjeffries
- Adrianne Jeffries’ weekly crypto column on The Verge
- Bitmain’s new $12K cryptocurrency miner might be useless by the time it ships (The Next Web)
- Blockchain is Meaningless (The Verge)
- IBM launches a cheaper platform for start-ups to build blockchain projects (CNBC)
Transcript (44 minutes)
Aaron Lammer: Welcome, Adrianne.
Adrianne Jeffries: Hi. How’s it going?
Aaron Lammer: I think this is the shortest distance phone based taping I’ve ever done…
