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GENIUS Becomes Law: What It Took to Pass the First Rules for Stablecoins in the U.S.
Duration: 00:23:58
July 22, 2025
- The newly signed Genius Act establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins, requiring them to be backed by liquid assets and issuers to disclose reserves monthly.
- Passage of the Act lends industry legitimacy and may fuel the mass adoption of stablecoins, potentially growing the market to $2 trillion by 2028, according to Standard Chartered.
- While most welcome the clarity the Act brings, some critics contend it should have included stronger AML protections, prohibited foreign stablecoin issuers, and blocked Big Tech from issuing their own stablecoins.
11 Uses for AI x Crypto
Duration: 01:02:17
July 16, 2025
- Universal agent identities, secured by blockchain, are crucial for consistent and seamless interactions across different platforms, enabling richer context and capability expression.
- Crypto provides a unique solution for AI's need for context, offering interoperable, forward-compatible memory and personalized data management while ensuring user control.
- A crypto-based system could revolutionize web crawling by facilitating on-chain negotiations between AI bots and websites, compensating creators for data and incentivizing open content.
What We're Reading & Technology Changing Reading
Duration: 01:19:52
July 2, 2025
- AI is now being used to decode brain scans into text, effectively enabling a primitive form of mind reading.
- Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) rely on a combination of medical devices for measuring brain activity and artificial intelligence to interpret the complex signals.
- The development of BCIs raises serious ethical concerns, especially regarding mind security and the potential for misuse of private thoughts.
5 Charts That Explain Crypto Right Now
Duration: 00:28:47
June 20, 2025
- The market is currently experiencing low trading volume and a generally volatile, corrective phase, favoring range-bound trading strategies over trend following.
- Analysis suggests that the market's direction hinges on key levels, specifically $106,000 for Bitcoin and a 50% retracement level for altcoins, with a focus on waiting for confirmation of strength before entering positions.
- Despite some bullish signals in the gold and silver markets, and potentially a short squeeze dependent on US stock market performance, caution is advised due to warnings from the Moon Phase indicator.
Quantum Computing: What, When, Where, How
Duration: 01:15:13
May 8, 2025
- Quantum computers leverage superposition to process vast amounts of data simultaneously, unlike classical computers that use binary bits.
- The concept of interference in quantum computing allows circuits to amplify correct answers while canceling out incorrect ones, enhancing computational accuracy.
- Entanglement enables qubits to be strongly correlated, allowing changes in one to affect another, which contributes to the power of quantum computing for solving complex problems.
Your Guide to Tokens: Types, Design, Uses, More
Duration: 01:41:36
April 25, 2025
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Understanding design tokens is crucial for building a cohesive design system, as they represent reusable design decisions like colors and sizes that enhance consistency across components.
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Maintaining a consistent naming convention for design tokens—like "icon success" or "surface error"—is essential to avoid confusion among designers when applying them to various components.
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Implementing a three-tier approach to design token architecture (brand, alias, mapped collections) helps streamline design systems by clearly defining roles for colors and other variables, making it easier for teams to collaborate effectively.
AI and the End of Apps (with NEAR)
Duration: 01:02:18
April 16, 2025
- There are currently multiple class action lawsuits against AI art companies, alleging that these firms have used artists' work for training without consent, which could significantly impact the future of AI art generation.
- The lawsuits center around a key legal question: whether AI art generators merely analyze human artists' images or actually infringe copyright by taking and storing them, making their outcomes crucial for the industry.
- The prediction is that AI art companies will likely settle the lawsuits, which could lead to new restrictions on the use of AI-generated art, including potential payment requirements and licensing agreements for users.
All About Airdrops
Duration: 01:02:00
April 7, 2025
- The podcast discusses the weekly airdrop events that take place every Wednesday, providing listeners an opportunity to participate and potentially earn rewards.
- Participants express excitement about missing out on monetary gains from these airdrops, emphasizing the value of engagement in such opportunities.
- There’s a lighthearted acknowledgment of the responsibility to stay informed, as one participant humorously notes their obligation to pay attention to these events.
Congestion Pricing: Economics, Theory, Reality
Duration: 00:57:31
March 29, 2025
- The discussion highlights negative externalities of smoking, emphasizing how smoking not only harms the health of smokers but also affects the health of non-smokers through secondhand smoke.
- Participants explore the government's role in regulating smoking through price increases, which are intended to reduce consumption by making consumers reconsider the costs associated with smoking.
- The conversation also contrasts negative externalities with positive externalities, mentioning that public transportation can reduce pollution and traffic congestion, yielding benefits for the broader community.
Blockchain Performance, Demystified
Duration: 00:30:18
March 14, 2025
- The conversation emphasizes the blockchain trilemma, highlighting the challenges of achieving an optimal balance between scalability, decentralization, and security, often necessitating trade-offs among the three.
- Scalability is defined as the system's ability to handle more transactions concurrently, with varying definitions of Transactions Per Second (TPS) across different blockchain platforms serving as a focal point of comparison.
- The discussion addresses the importance of security within blockchain networks, specifically how decentralized systems must withstand potential attacks from malicious nodes, stressing that security vulnerabilities could stem from flaws in smart contracts, particularly on platforms like Ethereum.