QuantLayer Podcast

#10: More About Tesla (This Time About Going Private), Software Developer Personalities and Getting Tangled in IOTA


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In this episode, we discuss a range of topics from Elon Musk’s recent tweets about taking Tesla private for $420 per share to the wide range of personalities amongst software developers. We also take a deep dive into the web known as the Tangle, where we look at its underlying technology to figure out what exactly is going on with IOTA.

Topics:

  • Elon Musk's tweet on privatising Tesla
  • How all current investors can remain with Tesla
  • "Taking Tesla Private" blog
  • How he arrived at the $420 number
  • The SpaceX comment
  • Coinbase scaling issues
  • Thoughts on scaling
  • Recommendations on scaling
  • Talking about IOTA
  • Some major issues with IOTA
  • What IOTA can give you
  • How IOTA transactions work
  • Coordinator (centralisation)
  • Tip selection attacks
  • Unstable wallet
  • Addressing reuse attack
  • Developer personalities

Links:

  • Elon Musk's tweet on taking Tesla private: - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776 - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026890900885184514
  • Taking Tesla Private (from Tesla's website) 
  • Quoth the Raven tweet 
  • Financial Times article 
  • Tesla finally put out press release 
  • Coinbase blog post 
  • IOTA 
  • Tweet about taking people's funds which were at risk into temporary custody through a snapshot 
  • IOTA lead dev attacking Sarah 
  • Newsletter with the updates 
  • QuantLayer Spotify 
  • iTunes 
  • QuantLayer Google Play 
  • QuantLayer Stitcher 
  • QuantLayer Libsyn 
  • Email
  • Augur
...more
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QuantLayer PodcastBy Vikram Ramakrishnan and Faizaan Shamsi

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