The Blockchain New Zealand Podcast

E07 - Tornado Cash and The Merge; Bryan and Jeff Roundtable 1

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Bryan Ventura is here for our first roundtable; Bryan is a lawyer specializing in blockchain and Web3. Today we're covering two main topics:

  • Tornado cash - what is it and why was it sanctioned - and the downstream effects of platform level censorship along with freedom of expression and how open source code fits in.
  • Then we dive into Eth2.0 (I still call it that) - The Merge - we talk about some of the history of proof of work transitioning to proof of stake ethereum and what people are expecting afterwards.
  • We wrap up with a shoutout to Roger Ver and Zuckerberg's metaverse.

    • Timestamps:

    00:00 intro
    00:57 Tornado cash intro
    06:27 OFAC & US regulatory influence
    09:27 Circle censoring USDC tx
    13:30 Multiple identities & dusting accounts
    17:08 freedom of speech 
    23:51 Dutch jailed the founder
    25:57 contributing to open source
    27:18 FATF virtual asset guidance
    32:56 is code speech
    38:26 Eth2.0, the merge & the history of PoW
    45:46 merge performance & fees
    51:20 validators
    55:37 deflationary distribution of ETH
    59:15 Roger Ver
    1:01:11 metaverse
    1:13:20 fin

    Some notes from the show:

    • What is Tornado Cash 
  • Sanctions 
  • Roman Semenov 
  • Chainalysis report & Lazarus North Korean hacking group 
  • Bernstein v. Department of Justice 
  • Developer jailed for 90 days 
  • Stable Diffusion 
  • Dall-e 
  • pgp privacy 
  • Github's co-pilot 
  • Ethereum difficulty bomb 
  • Otherside land mint fees 
  • Ethereum nodes 
  • Futureverse 
  • Horizon Worlds 
  • paper cheques 
  • Zuckerberg on Lex 

    • Contact Bryan:

    • LinkedIn
  • MinterEllisonRuddWatts

    • Find Jeff:

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    Recorded at blockheight 752817. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

     

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