Alain and Jeff interview Calvin Tran, director of the Amazon documentary “Rizqi Presents: Blockchain.” In today’s episode we discuss:

- A lot of people still think cryptocurrency and blockchain are the same thing (why haven’t people gotten this by now?)

- How blockchain can dramatically stimulate developing economies by creating secure systems for real estate and land titles

- How Blockstack, a blockchain name system to replace DNS, aims to create a decentralized internet

- How alternative social networks end up getting filled with trolls and worse

- It is uncertain how well decentralized companies will compete against centralized organizations due to different incentive structures

- Blockchain gives us an option to directly control our money, but due complexity, people will usually default to using 3rd party systems.

- Putting your genome on the blockchain

- How to publish a documentary on Amazon

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q84HRC6/

https://twitter.com/clvnthbld

https://www.nodehaus.co/

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