Tag Archives: Interviews

In a candid conversation during EthCC, Greg Osuri, the founder of Akash Network, shares insights into his journey, Akash’s inception, and the future of decentralized cloud computing. Osuri’s venture into the world of decentralized cloud computing began long before Akash Network. Osuri, an experienced entrepreneur, first made waves with AngelHack, the largest hackathon-based accelerator globally. “Before AngelHack, hackathons were a very underground concept, and we made them...

Podcast: Was die Schweiz zu einer Bitcoin-Nation macht. BTC-ECHO: Deutschlands führendes Bitcoin- und Krypto-Plattform diskutierte diese Woche in einem Podcast die Schweiz, rsp. die Bitcoin Mentalität in der Schweiz. Eines ist für die Macher klar: Die Schweiz ist eine starke Bitcoin-Nation, u.a. wegen der vielen Pionieren und unterschiedlichen Akteuren: Warum die Luzerner Kantonalbank Kryptowährungen anbietet, was man zur “Bitcoin-Mentalität” der Schweizer sagen kann und wie...

CoinspeakerPresent and Future of Oracle Market: Interview with Angus Tookey According to Angus Tookey, Oracles remain the hidden backbone of the blockchain ecosystem, enabling the transfer of billions of dollars of value every day. Present and Future of Oracle Market: Interview with Angus Tookey

2022 saw the implosion of numerous cryptocurrency lenders, perhaps none more devastating for investors than the Celsius crash. What followed was a year-long violent bear market with depressed prices and little to no actual activity within the industry. Two years later, the landscape is entirely different. The entire market cap has more than tripled in the past several months, while BTC is closing on its all-time high against the dollar of $69,000. During the Crypto Expo...

Will Tether go public any time soon? What are the new CEO’s plans for the company? What is keet io? Why is the Bitcoin Lightning network the best BTC payment solution? These and many more questions were answered by Paolo Ardoino, the new chief exec of the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, in a recent interview with CryptoPotato. Additionally, he spoke about another project of his – keet io, which serves as a peer-to-peer web conferencing tool. Last but not least,...

During Binance Blockchain Week – a major conference held earlier in Istanbul on November 2023, CryptoPotato had the chance to speak to Binance’s Richard Teng. It’s worth noting that, at the time, Teng was serving as Binance’s Head of Regional Markets, as the conference took place before the most recent Binance developments. Recall that on November 21st, the United States Department of Justice settled charges against the cryptocurrency exchange, bringing an investigation...

Richard Ma, the CEO and founder of Quantstamp, stands at the forefront of the cryptocurrency auditing landscape. With his firm recognized as one of the leading smart contract auditing entities, Ma’s perspective offers invaluable insights into the evolving challenges and paradigms of crypto safety. In an interview with CryptoPotato that was held at Token2049 in Singapore, Ma delves deep into the current limitations of smart contract auditing, the varied nature of crypto hacks...

To this day, privacy arguably remains the fatal flaw of the most popular blockchain networks. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum use fully transparent public ledgers to store their transactions. While technically anonymous, careful digging can allow external parties – including governments – to uncover the identity of any number of parties behind an address or set of transactions. For the more privacy-focused blockchains and protocols, authorities have mostly banned centralized...

The cryptocurrency industry is rapidly changing. There’s no doubt about it. From a field reserved only for cypherpunks and heavily tech-oriented people to a global phenomenon that’s now ventured into the mainstream, blockchain is no longer a topic that’s raising as many eyebrows as it used to, and Web3 became mainstream in talks. Those who’ve been following the latest gaming and NFT developments have surely heard of Animoca Brands: one of the most prominent gaming studios and...

If the slew of smart contract hacks that netted attackers over $3 billion in 2022 has taught us anything, it’s that decentralized finance (DeFi) is still an immature industry. Besides exploits, DeFi still faces scaling issues related to the computational power needed to power complex transactions, and the throughput needed to support the worldwide financial system in the coming years.  As the current king of DeFi, the Ethereum network is worth assessing to identify the...