The Future of Blockchain Infrastructure with David Atkinson from Holochain - a podcast by Michael Nye: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Crypto Advocate

from 2019-05-08T16:08:25

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Evolvement is a podcast hosted by Nye that revolves around Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and how these play a role in the current financial models and economic systems of the world.

In this episode, I sit down with David Atkinson from Holochain to discuss the future of blockchain infrastructure. We chat about the design of Holochain and why it was built the way that it was. We also talk about the basic problems that blockchain infrastructures face and how these problems will be address using Holochain. Finally, we chat about the purpose of agent centricity, bottlenecks, and the future of blockchain scalability.

Learn more about what they are building at https://holochain.org/.

Thank you to David for his time! Also, thank you to our sponsors VegaWallet. And thank you to all our listeners! You guys help make this possible.

Timestamps

1:32 - Who are you and how’d you get started in crypto?

3:00 - How did the design of Holochain get built?

6:30 - What is Holochain?

8:40 - What problems do you currently see in blockchain infrastructures that inspired you to create a new solution?

13:20 - What is the purpose of agent centricity?

15:25 - Does this help with bottlenecks and scalability?

19:20 - One of the main issues you are trying to solve is energy efficiency. How are you doing this?

24:00 - So you are trying to remove competition between users from the experience?

26:50 - What are the current inefficiencies in blockchain right now?

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