How Blockchains Will Disrupt Everything - Stephen P. Williams

05/24/19 • 59 min

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Stephen P. Williams, author of Blockchain: The Next Everything, talks about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains. In this interview, I ask him:

What is a blockchain?
Is each bitcoin transaction really consuming 30-USA-households worth of electricity?
What's the difference between proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake?
What's the promise of Etherum vs. Bitcoin?
What's blockchain's killer app? What what's the next low-hanging fruit?
Why should painters love the blockchain?
Why did someone pay $170,000 for a digital crypto kitty?
Why is Williams bullish on Ethereum and Litecoin?
How are dapps (distributed applications) going to impact us? See the state of the dapps that Stephen Williams mentions.
What does a self-sovereign world look like?

Around 35 minutes into the interview, we discuss an interactive McKinsey matrix about the blockchain industry. It's worth seeing the matrix (or to watch my YouTube video about it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRSYkay394k

You can follow Stephen Williams on Twitter.

For those who don't see how this relates to travel (my normal subject), it's that cryptocurrencies and blockchains have the potential of disrupting everything, including the travel industry.

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Stephen P. Williams, author of Blockchain: The Next Everything, talks about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains. In this interview, I ask him:

What is a blockchain?
Is each bitcoin transaction really consuming 30-USA-households worth of electricity?
What's the difference between proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake?
What's the promise of Etherum vs. Bitcoin?
What's blockchain's killer app? What what's the next low-hanging fruit?
Why should painters love the blockchain?
Why did someone pay $170,000 for a digital crypto kitty?
Why is Williams bullish on Ethereum and Litecoin?
How are dapps (distributed applications) going to impact us? See the state of the dapps that Stephen Williams mentions.
What does a self-sovereign world look like?

Around 35 minutes into the interview, we discuss an interactive McKinsey matrix about the blockchain industry. It's worth seeing the matrix (or to watch my YouTube video about it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRSYkay394k

You can follow Stephen Williams on Twitter.

For those who don't see how this relates to travel (my normal subject), it's that cryptocurrencies and blockchains have the potential of disrupting everything, including the travel industry.

Promoting Health Access Sumbawa

More info

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Previous Episode

The Smartest Guy In Cameroon - Africa's Einstein

There's a project that is searching for an Einstein in Africa. I may have found him.

His name is Baye Gaspar. He's from the extreme north of Cameroon. He's won countless awards. He's just 26 years old.

It's a brutally honest discussion. I am politically incorrect, as usual. We don't sugarcoat the conversation.

One thing that few will appreciate is that Baye Gaspar comes from a Francophone region. It's hard to find someone from a Francophone region that speaks English as well as he does. That's just another testament of his intelligence.

In this long conversation, we discuss:

What awards Baye Gaspar has won.
Why many Africans believe witchcraft is behind his success.
The pervasiveness of cheating and corruption in many African educational systems.
Baye's artificial intelligence app that will help with doing medical diagnosis.
What's the price difference between a modern doctor and a witchdoctor?
He's been to 5 African countries. What did he observe?
What does Gaspar think of the Anglophone separatist movement in Cameroon?
What are 10 positive traits and 10 negative traits that Africans have in common?

Update

We recorded this in 2018. Since then:

Germany didn't give Gaspar his visa.
Gaspar's app is coming out in late 2019.
Paul Biya, Cameroon's perennial leader, is still in power in 2019, as Gaspar predicted.

Promoting Health Access Sumbawa

One of WanderLearn's top patrons, Kathy Enger, asked me to draw attention to Health Access Sumbawa. I am happy to promote this remarkable nonprofit. In 2014, Jack Kennedy founded the organization to bring malaria control and healthcare to remote, impoverished communities. It started on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Since then, it's expanded thanks to generous donations. Visit their website to learn more and to donate: https://healthaccesssumbawa.org

More info

You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com.

If you like this podcast, subscribe and share!

On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on:

Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon

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If you prefer to do a one-time contribution, you can send it to my PayPal at [email protected]

If you prefer sending me cryptocurrency, then please send your support to one of my favorite wallets:

Bitcoin: 3EiSBC2bv2bYtYEXAKTkgqZohjF27DGjnV
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Next Episode

Traveling To Every Country With 3 Kids

The three most popular excuses people have for not traveling?

Lack of time
Lack of money
Lack of children

Just kidding about that last one!

Today, we'll look at the real excuse #3: I can't go because I have kids!

When I was in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I interviewed the parents behind Growing Up Without Borders.

For the last few years, they are systematically visiting every country in the world with their three daughters!

That's right!

They've been traveling with them since they were 5, 7, and 9 years old!

Now they're 9, 12, and 14 years old.

Tyler & Chantal Patton have three daughters Julia, Angelique, & Chloe.

They've been to nearly 100 countries in the last few years!

Listen to find out:

What did they do right?
What did they do wrong?
Why should you do the opposite of what everyone else is doing?
What's this biggest travel bargain they ever had?
How does Tyler find such travel bargains?
How does travel impact a child's development?

Comment on this episode and share it with this link:

https://francistapon.com/Work/WanderLearn-Podcast/Traveling-To-Every-Country-With-3-Kids

Because their kids were within earshot, I didn't swear! Aren't you proud of me?

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Promoting Health Access Sumbawa

More info

You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com.

If you like this podcast, subscribe and share!

On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on:

Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon

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