The Blockchain Debate Podcast

37 Episodes

1. Motion: Bitcoin mining is good for the grid (Lee Bratcher vs. Ben Hertz-Shargel)

   Published: 5/12/2022
2. Motion: We should always reduce MEV on blockchains (Ed Felten vs. Tushar Jain)

   Published: 5/6/2022
3. Motion: Web3 is worse than Web2 (Liron Shapira vs. Kyle Samani)

   Published: 12/24/2021
4. Motion: The industry is growing out of the Fat Protocol Thesis (Jeff Dorman vs. Joel Monegro)

   Published: 12/10/2021
5. Motion: DAOs are better than corporations (Kain Warwick vs. Edmund Schuster)

   Published: 10/13/2021
6. Motion: Toxic maximalism is great for Bitcoin (Giacomo Zucco vs. Paul Sztorc)

   Published: 8/12/2021
7. Motion: It's a bad idea to make Bitcoin compulsory tender (George Selgin vs. Yves Bennaïm)

   Published: 8/6/2021
8. Motion: Algo and fractional stablecoins are flawed (Bennett Tomlin vs. Sam Kazemian)

   Published: 7/27/2021
9. Motion: Security is about maximizing the minimum set of colluding miners (Anatoly Yakovenko vs. Dankrad Feist)

   Published: 7/12/2021
10. Motion: The US urgently needs to catch up on Central Bank Digital Currency (Robert Hockett vs. Lawrence White)

    Published: 6/18/2021
11. Motion: Trustless smart contracts for Bitcoin is impossible without forking (Ruben Somsen vs. Muneeb Ali)

    Published: 5/28/2021
12. Motion: NFTs are dumb (Edmund Schuster vs. Andrew Steinwold, co-host: Maria Shen)

    Published: 3/25/2021
13. Motion: Ethereum is too early for institutional money (Lyn Alden vs. Qiao Wang)

    Published: 2/24/2021
14. Motion: Diem is a glorified Paypal (David Gerard vs. Bryce Weiner)

    Published: 1/26/2021
15. Motion: Tether has always been acting in bad faith (Bennett Tomlin vs. Larry Cermak, co-host: Patrick McKenzie)

    Published: 1/13/2021
16. Motion: Bitcoin is a scam (Jorge Stolfi vs. Lyn Alden)

    Published: 1/1/2021
17. Motion: Legally speaking, tokens are more like commodities than like securities (Lewis Cohen vs. Gabriel Shapiro)

    Published: 12/24/2020
18. Motion: Today’s blockchains can’t increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization, II (Evan Shapiro vs. Anatoly Yakovenko)

    Published: 12/24/2020
19. Motion: Tether will likely get crushed by authorities in the next two years, thanks to its shady practices and defiance against regulators (CasPiancey vs. Matthew Graham)

    Published: 12/3/2020
20. Motion: ZK rollup has a better set of security/scalability tradeoff than optimistic rollup (Alex Gluchowski vs. John Adler, co-host: James Prestwich)

    Published: 11/4/2020