FIO: A potential solution for payment addresses. This week I chatted to Luke Stokes, the Managing Director for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability, or FIO. In this interview we take a deep dive into the FIO protocol, which launched its mainnet chain on March 26, 2020. We talk about the tech, what interwallet operability means, how to map all your crypto addresses to a FIO name, and how it makes crypto invoices super simple. To claim a free FIO address visit: dl.edge.app/nbtv (limited supply!) Paul Puey, the CEO of edgewallet, and I did a deep dive into FIO on our coinwatch show, so if you’d like to hear Paul’s perspective of the coin and whether or not he’d be interested in investing $100 in it, visit: youtu.be/hsRkcQxcArg If you’d like to send me any questions for guests or send a message of support for the show, I have a cointr.ee page and you can add a note to my wall: cointree.link/naomibrockwell I also have a free weekly newsletter called cryptobeat, crypto news in 5 minutes or less, directly to your inbox: naomibrockwell.com/cryptobeat If you’d like to sign up for the members-only newsletter and get access to exclusive videos, head to naomibrockwell/memberships There you will also find the video version of this podcast Thanks so much for watching!!

This week on the show I chatted to Arthur Breitman, cofounder of Tezos. Tezos has been in the news recently because the class action lawsuit the foundation has been fighting for the last 3 years just came to a close. In 2017 the suit was brought by people who claimed Tezos was an unregistered security, and that this entitled them to money. The biggest winners from the lawsuit were the lawyers who walked away with 1/3 of the $25million settlement. My personal opinion of those who brought the suit aside, they would have actually been better off just holding onto their Tezos, which saw a huge rise over the last year. Arthur and I didn’t actually cover the lawsuit in this conversation, but I have done interviews with him in the past about this and I’ll link them in the description. In this interview, we take a deep dive into the tech of Tezos: What Tezos can offer the world of DeFi, now that gas prices of Ethereum are so high Why sharding might not be the answer Misconceptions around supply caps The debate around scaling on chain – and the Ethereum community’s view that this is plutocracy How the self-governance on Tezos works, why you don’t want to have to depend on a hard fork, and some early proposals that were implemented How staking, “baking”, works Why Tezos is not delegated proof of stake like many claim, but actually something called liquid democracy -- what this means and why it’s different from DpoS that blockchains like EOS use. If you would like to send me a message and support my channel, visit https://cointr.ee/naomibrockwell or visit Naomibrockwell.com/memberships to become a member of NBTV! Huge thank you to all the supporters who keep this channel running!