The Insights of Building Decentralized Infrastructure with Jake Yocom-Piatt of Decred

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In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Jake Yocom-Piatt the Project Lead for Decred. You get to discover Decred decentralized autonomous cryptocurrency and how the company is building government systems around what they are working on and organizing themselves in both a  transparent and open source kind of way. 

“We're doing what we can to set a good example and try to create infrastructure which if nation states would want to use they could”. 

“Here's one. What would you have instead of proof-of-stake system for US government, what if you had a system where stake was linked to the amount you've paid in taxes. To make a tax payment a virtual  Both literally and in terms of your sovereignty in the system”. - Jake Yocom-Piatt

Production and music by Derek Bernard - www.haberdasherband.com/production

Host: Trent Lapinski - https://trentlapinski.com

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