Here with us today on our CityDAO Podcast is Carl Youngblood, who is currently spending his vacation in Madrid, Spain. Carl is a Software Engineer for over twenty years, specializing in highly scalable web services and applications. He is especially interested in blockchain technology and smart contracts. For today’s episode, we will have a more in-depth discussion about Charter Cities, Carl’s transition to the blockchain space, his work in AWS (Amazon Web Services), proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake, designing the city of the future, and so much more.

Carl used to be a part of the Amazon Web Services as a Senior Solutions Architect and Blockchain specialist. He is also the Co-Founder of Blockscale LLC, which provides highly-available, reliable, and scalable blockchain services for crypto projects. Blockscale has led the deployment of the Tezos Foundation's baker infrastructure during their mainnet launch, and continues to maintain it today. They have also released open-source projects and tools for Ethereum and Tezos. Blockscale was recently acquired by Coinbase.