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Welcome to BlockShots, your guide to demystifying the world of blockchain in a clear and approachable way. Whether you're a crypto enthusiast or just starting out, our goal is to provide you with a solid foundation in blockchain technology. BlockShots is your trusted source for blockchain education in a down-to-earth, no-nonsense style. Tune in, learn, and navigate the world of blockchain with confidence. podcast.blockshots.net
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Are you Struggling to find success betting sports? Tired of empty promises and scams handicapping services? Wondering why Vegas sports books become richer and richer and how you could win on sports too? This podcast is what the sports investing industry truly needs - an insider look into proven, successful strategies. ZcodeSystem.com Sports Betting Podcast is your crash course in sports investing that destroys popular misconceptions and provides invaluable sports prediction analysis tools th ...
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After 4.5 years and just shy of 200 interviews, The Louis and Kyle Show has come to an end! In this episode, we reflect on the last 4 years and share what's next for us, and what's next for the channel. This conversation covers: 00:02:44 - The Most Valuable Lessons We've Learned 00:05:27 - Demystifying The World 00:10:22 - Embracing Imperfection 00…
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Nat Eliason started publishing essays online in 2013. Since then, his work has been read by millions of people and lead to multiple spin-off businesses including a marketing agency and a café. In 2022, Nat become completely obsessed with Crypto, and went from outsider to earning millions of dollars within 1 year. His new book, Crypto Confidential: …
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Scott Young, best-selling author of Ultralearning, joins us to discuss his newest book: Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery. This conversation covers: 00:00:00 - The Importance of Having a Mental Model of Learning 00:10:26 - Building Confidence and Motivation 00:15:35 - The Mind as a Muscle 00:18:36 - Strengthening Specific Mental Skills …
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Jeff Lerner is the founder of ENTRE, one of the fastest-growing education companies in the world with over 250,000 students. During the great recession, Jeff transitioned from a broke jazz musician to an 8-figure entrepreneur with two appearances on the Inc. 5000 list. Jeff shares his tips for succeeding as an entrepreneur in his book, Unlock Your …
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Matt McLean is the Founder Uncle Matt's Organic, America's original family-owned organic orange juice company. They produce organic juices and probiotic popsicles and all of their products are certified glyphosate residue free by The Detox Project. This conversation covers: 00:05:13 - The Challenges of Organic Farming 00:07:50 - The Origins of Uncl…
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Jens Lennartsson is a former journalist and photographer turned newsletter expert. He once sent out 400 miniature action figures of himself to potential clients around the world. Now, he runs all of his businesses from a tiny home outside of Gothenburg, Sweden that he built by himself. This conversation covers: 00:00:00 - The Importance of Aligning…
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Joe Zappa is the founder and CEO of Sharp Pen Media. Sharp Pen Media offers C-level marketing strategy, content, and PR for adtech and martech companies. In addition, Joe earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. In this episode, we discuss: 00:04:41 - Transitioning from Freelancer to Entrepreneur 00:09:25 - The Complexities o…
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Matheus is the Co-founder and CEO of Tint, an insurance startup on a mission to empower any company to embed insurance into its product. Tint is a Y Combinator-backed startup that provides a no-code platform, compliance services, and capital/capacity for innovative insurance solutions. Previously, Matheus held senior leadership roles at Turo, studi…
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Brennan Dunn is the author of This Is Personal, The Art of Delivering the Right Email at the Right Time. For the last decade, Brennan Dunn has been building "email-first" businesses. Currently, he owns and operates two companies: RightMessage, a software company that builds personalized marketing software, and Double Your Freelancing, an online com…
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Traditionally blockchains execute transactions sequentially. Some of the newer chains have been trying parallel execution of transactions to improve blockchain performance. In this episode we understand what are parallel transactions and how they work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access …
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In this episode we understand what are real world assets and why they are being tokenised. What are real world assets?Any thing of value that has been generated or created in the real world before being represented digitally. For example: Fiat currencies, Art, Commodities, etc. Benefits of tokenisation: Enhanced liquidity, easier trade, easier reco…
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After a brief break, we are back with new episodes. Ethereum recently upgraded to a new update called Dencun. In this episode we understand what this update is and how it is important. 9 different updates clubbed together. Biggest and most important — introduction of blobs. Protodanksharding. Reduce transaction fee on rollups by providing cheaper d…
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Kyle Mau is the founder of HireUA and a partner in Selo Olive. HireUA helps American companies tap into Ukrainian talent. Selo Olive is a luxury Croatian Olive Oil brand, with more than 10,000 bottles sold. Originally from California, Kyle made a bold move at the age of 24 to leave corporate engineering and move to Eastern Europe as a digital entre…
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Andrew Moses is the host of the "Everybody Pulls The Tarp" podcast, having interviewed over 175 top performers, spanning Olympians, pro athletes, TV stars, CEOs, and more. He also is Vice President at MorganFranklin, where he aids finance, technology, and business leaders in navigating complex transformational challenges. Additionally, he co-founde…
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Andre Haykal Jr is the co-founder of Client Ascension and ListKit. At Client Ascension, the goal is to build the #1 coaching program & community for agency owners. Andre has helped countless businesses achieve their goals by improving their marketing strategies and internal operations. In this episode, we discuss: 🎯 Investing in Coaches and Acceler…
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Matt McGarry, "The Newsletter Guy," is a highly successful entrepreneur. As the founder of the agency GrowLetter, Matt is a thought leader and operator in newsletter growth and customer acquisition. Additionally, Matt generated over 5 million subscribers and $15 million in sales just last year. In this episode, we discuss: 💰 Building an eight-figur…
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Adam Hergenrother is the Founder & CEO of Livian, Host of The 200% Life Podcast, and the author of "The 200% Life" and "The Founder & The Force Multiplier." An entrepreneur at heart, Adam is passionate about using business to transform lives and believes that focusing on personal growth is the key to business success. In this episode, we discuss: 🌱…
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Kristen Butler is the founder and CEO of Power of Positivity, a thriving community with over 50M followers from all the world dedicated to empowering individuals to live their best lives. With features in SUCCESS, Forbes, and Entrepreneur, Kristen is a respected leader in the field of personal development. She also is the author of "The Comfort Zon…
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Charles Tichenor IV is a renowned media buyer and educator who has driven over $1 billion in revenue through his mastery of paid advertising. As the creator of the 3:2:2 Method, PSM, 4Pi, and the Facebook Ads MBA Program, Charles has a track record of disrupting the industry. His diverse advertising experience spans across notable clients including…
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Restaking is staking of already staked tokens. But how is the possible? If tokens are staked for one purpose — providing econoimic security for consensus of a network — they could be further staked to provide security to other networks or apps. The process of restaking works by overriding the withdrawal and slashing conditions of user’s staked toke…
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Modular blockchains has been one of the buzz words in the last year. In this episode, let’s understand modularity in blockchains. In the beginning, consensus and execution were part of the same blockchain like Ethereum 1.0. Then execution was decoupled and put into rollups. Then came the need for storing rollup data in the L1. And then we got DA la…
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Noah Kagan is the founder and CEO of AppSumo.com. He’s also the author of The Million Dollar Weekend, The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours. Previously, Noah was employee #30 at Facebook. Outside of AppSumo, he’s launched six other million-dollar businesses (Kickflip/Gambit, KingSumo, SendFox, Sumo, TidyCal, and Mont…
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In this episode, we understand what are altcoins? Altcoin was first used for any coin other than bitcoin. But the definition has evolved a bit among different circles in the crypto land. Listen to the full episode to explore the topic in detail. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonu…
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In this episode, we understand what are orphan or uncle blocks. This is more of a Proof of Work related concept where two blocks are produced at the same time. One of them becomes part of the chain - based on the longest chain consensus rule - while the other becomes and orphan (Bitcoin) or uncle (Ethereum 1.0) block. Listen to the full episode to …
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Michael Girdley has spent the last 30 years building a $100M+ holding company. He's also built a 200k+ Twitter following and a newsletter with over 20k readers. He's also a major tech evangelist in San Antonio, enabling the creation of 1,000+ new tech jobs in the area through entrepreneurial and leadership roles at numerous companies and nonprofits…
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In this episode, we understand the two ways of doing blockchain governance - on-chain and off-chain. When the decisions to update the blockchain software are driven by processes off the chain (online forums, meetups, etc.) then it leads to off-chain governance. When the decisions are made using a voting process that is recorded on the blockchain (a…
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A fork choice rule is part of the blockchain consensus mechanism and it is used to find out the canonical chain for adding new blocks. Fork choice rule becomes relevant when there is a fork caused by network partition or two blocks being produced at the same time. A fork could also happen when there are dishonest validators in the network. When val…
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At 18, Shegun moved to Birmingham Alabama to escape violence surrounding him in Nigeria. Two decades later, he sold Therapy Brands for $1.25 Billion — one of the largest exits in Alabama history. In addition, Shegun has been recognized as EY's Entrepreneur of the Year and the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellow. Shegun is now the CEO of Copysmith …
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Rollups are L2 scaling mechanisms where transaction execution is done offchain in the rollup node or sequencer. The state is updated on the L1 based on this execution. Rollup nodes also publish transaction data “rolled up” as batches and blocks on the L1 chain. When it comes to following the blockchain data structure of adding the reference of prev…
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Andrew Yeung has earned the title "The Gatsby of Silicon Alley" by hosting over 25,000 guests at his exclusive tech parties across major North American cities like NYC, LA, Toronto, Boston, San Francisco. Previously, Andrew worked as a Global Product Lead at Google and a Business Planning & Ops Lead at Facebook. He also is an active angel investor …
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Chuck Knabusch is a business consultant and author of Hope Is Not A Business Strategy, How To Take Control Of Your Business So It Won't Take Control Of You. In this episode we discuss: 📅 The Importance of Planning and Project Management 🎓 The Illusion of Expertise 🤔 The Value of Outsourcing Decision Making 🚹 Understanding People and Building Corpor…
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When users stake their tokens to provide security and validation in a PoS network, those tokens are locked for the duration of staking. The users can’t use staked tokens for anything else. This is native staking. In Liquid Staking, a liquid token is generated and given to the user in return of staked tokens for the duration of staking. The liquid t…
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Alex McShane is a writer, speaker, and talented operator in the Bitcoin industry. His range of experiences includes serving as the Director of Programming at the Bitcoin Conference, Unconference Director for Nostr, General Partner at Lightning Ventures, editor of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard, and Principles of Economics by Saifedean Ammo…
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Sharding in blockchain is of two types — execution sharding and data sharding. There could be other types in the future, the crypto space evolves quickly. In episode 41, what I explained was primarily execution sharding. Where the transaction execution is divided across several sub-chains for faster throughput. https://episodes.blockshots.fm/p/epis…
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To scale blockchains, we need scalability solutions like rollups. To make sure that the rollups are doing the right thing, we need data availability. And to ensure that data availability is done right, we need data availability sampling. This episode explains data availability sampling at a high level and tries to paint a bigger picture on how some…
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Validiums are L2 scaling solutions similar to ZK Rollups with a basic difference that they use a separate data availability layer instead of posting rollup data on the execution layer (Ethereum mainnet). Validiums also use ZK proofs to prove state transition validity to the L1. Similar to ZK Rollups, Validiums post the validity proof on the Ethereu…
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Mike O'Connor is the founder of NexusPoint, a US based BPO focused on connecting small and medium sized businesses with world class, outsourced talent. Mike is also a talented real estate investor with additional business interests in home services companies and the manufacturing industry. In this episode we cover… 🤖 How to think about AI-assisted …
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Adriel Lubarsky is a trailblazer in corporate sustainability and the acclaimed author of Attainable Sustainability: Building Your Corporate Climate Strategy. As the Director of Sales at GreenPlaces, Adriel is at the forefront of assisting companies of all sizes in measuring and mitigating their environmental impact. In this episode, we cover: 📚 Adr…
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There is a new term in the crypto land — blobspace. Before understanding blobspace, let’s first do a quick refresher on data availability. Check out Episode 88 of the podcast. https://episodes.blockshots.fm/p/episode-88-what-is-data-availability#details Data availability is about making the L2 block data available on the L1s. For Optimistic rollups…
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Just a couple of days ago, in a work call, someone asked me the difference between blockchain and blockspace. Blockspace is a bit of a abstract concept. The capacity to fit transactions in a block. Check out episode 44 for a overview of block limits. https://episodes.blockshots.fm/p/episode-44-block-gas-limit-block#details Blockspace is a higher le…
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Nick Hutchison is the founder and CEO of BookThinkers, a marketing agency for authors that Nick launched based on his success growing a massive Instagram audience of nonfiction enthusiasts. This conversation focuses on lessons from Nick’s new book, Rise of the Reader: Strategies For Mastering Your Reading Habits and Applying What You Learn. We cove…
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In this 100th episode we do something special. We look at the Bitcoin whitepaper and summarize the key points. We understand what are the design goals and the problems to solve for Bitcoin. You can read the full Bitcoin whitepaper here - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf. Thank you for your support till 100 episodes. Music: https://www.purple-planet.…
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Eric Jorgenson is a writer, builder, and investor. In 2020, Eric released the "Almanack of Naval Ravikant," a bestseller with over a million copies sold. This conversation discusses the "The Anthology of Balaji", Eric’s long awaited followup book (released today). The Anthology distills the best ideas from futurist Balaji Srinivasan into three main…
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In this episode we understand what is latency in blockchains and how it relates to throughput. We also look at various factors and variables impacting the latency and throughput in blockchains. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vis…
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Tim Calise is a business coach, investor, and advisor to over 15 privately held businesses with annual revenues from $250,000 to $10,000,000. In addition, Tim: * Worked closely with Alex Hormozi to scale GymLaunch, Prestige Labs, and ALAN * Raised $325mm before the age of 25 * Founded or grew 6(!) companies to 7 or 8 figures In this episode, we dis…
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In this episode we understand what are Intents in blockchains and how they are different from transactions. We also understand the different usage and needs of intent based approach in designing blockchain applications. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc…
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In this episode we understand what are ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and why they are used in Bitcoin and other crypto mining. We also understand their relation with the hash power based proof of work systems. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers o…
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In this episode, we sit down with Adam Nathan, founder and CEO of Almanac, to talk about his ambitions to reshape the future of remote work. Drawing from insights gained from over 5,000 interviews with experts at companies like Apple, Stripe, and Netflix, Adam has pioneered the Modern Work Method. This method seeks to redefine how we work on the in…
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In this episode, we understand the two state models in blockchains - UTXO and Accounts based. Bitcoin uses the UTXO model while Ethereum uses the accounts model. Let’s understand what these are and what are the differences between them. Music: https://www.purple-planet.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subsc…
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Arthur Petropoulos spent nearly a decade on Wall Street, with involvement in investment banking, private equity, and serving as the head of corporate development, strategy, and M&A for a diversified B2B services company. Now, Arthur provides M&A, Business Exit, and Capital Advisory Services for Middle Market companies (up to $10 million in EBITDA) …
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