Diamond Rhino

When a fix gets engineered for securing crypto assets against quantum computers, that’s when the real work will begin. In this podcast, we deal with the part of the post-quantum roadmap that no one dwells on and I suspect will be the most important: the migration from old, quantum insecure addresses to the bigger, bulkier addresses that actually can stand up to quantum computation. I invited a pro...

Whenever some big change hits the world, the conversation goes the same way: * People on the frontier dive in and pat each other on the back for seeing the future (mistakes get made). * The mainstream rolls its eyes, clutches its pearls, wrings its hands and says “tsk, tsk, tsk” (opportunities get missed). * Eventually Matthew Yglesias and Scott Alexander write very long posts about them. No one r...

Correction (March 30, 2026, 12:26 PM CST): At one point in the episode, I compare Ozempic to Wegovy. I should have compared it to Zepbound, instead. If you had a coworker who seemed to transform one month, what would you do? What if she seemed to have more pep in her step, a glow in her skin, more focus and more charm? Would you ask her what was going on? You might assume she had found a fresh rom...

I feel weird about prediction markets. I think a lot of us do? Those of us who feel weird about them call it gambling. Those of us who think they are great prefer “gaming.” Our whole country is in the middle of a big conversation about whether or not prediction markets are on balance good or on balance bad. So, I invited someone who made her beat gaming — the kind of gaming where people try to hav...

How many novels have we seen so far about some numbnuts taking a job at a Silicon Valley startup ? Lots. But what we haven’t seen nearly so much of, proportionally, have been books that deal with the world of blockchains. That despite the fact that nonces, hashrates and memes have powered a whole hell of a lot of real-world drama. From scams to billionaires to nation-state meltdowns to cyber-robbe...

A jury of his peers found Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on seven counts in 2023. Then Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced him to 25 years in prison. In case you’ve forgotten, he launched the crypto exchange that turned out to have a multibillion hole where it’s customer’s money should have been, late in 2022 . In recent days, SBF has attempted to exonerate his image in the public and he has sucked up to Presi...

🤯 55% off subscription discount subscription offer * lasts forever! Wow! I was not at ETHDenver 2026. It’s the first one I have missed in several years. But I still have a report for you, because I went through a bunch of the talks posted on YouTube that dealt with the evolving regulatory backdrop for the cryptocurrency world. Regulation still seems like the key theme of the moment — to me. Plus,...

Imagine my surprise when I started going through crypto crash commentary in mainstream media, news shows and podcasts and found that economist Paul Krugman is on my side on one key point. The commentator, who has always hated Bitcoin, concedes the one use case for Bitcoin that is — in my opinion — its most compelling: Its ability to evade capital controls. Bitcoin is for exit. You can hear him say...

This podcast covers a new twist on the intersection of cryptocurrency and quantum computing. It’s got a wow factor. If you think the quantum threat to Bitcoin is controversial, wait until you see what can be uncovered when you start to look into quantum applications. There’s an idea that’s been floating around out there since 25 years before Satoshi dreamed up Bitcoin: Quantum Money. We say BTC wo...

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Real world assets aren’t just a narrative. They are a phase change for the cryptocurrency industry. The new episode of Diamond Rhino breaks all that down. In detail. With charm. But before we get to that… First! If you like the podcast so far, it would be great if you subscribed via one of your favorite mobile pod players . Here’s some helpful links for you to find the show wherever you tend to li...

It seems like the first time Joe Rogan, the mega-podcaster, ever heard about Bitcoin was caught on the mic in a very early episode. That clip can now only be found as a clip other people have posted online, because that old episode, #110, is no longer available from Rogan himself. But it gets shared around often enough. In this podcast episode, I take us through some of the key conversations on th...

Worldcoin has had many lives since it revealed itself in 2021 . When we all first heard about it, it was a plan to deliver a crypto basic income to everyone on earth, as fears mounted about what artificial intelligence would do to employment. Then the crypto and biometrics startup started talking more about dealing with deepfakes. Then it became more about ensuring you’re interacting with a real p...

This is going to be a weird episode of this very new podcast. But if you’ve gone down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, then you have tasted the fruit of reasoning from uncertainty. However, cryptocurrency’s epistemic terrain has gotten to be much too easy travel. So come with me to give that conceptual flexibility you learned from embracing decentralized networks a workout by explorin...

Show notes https://epicenter.tv/episode/337-aave-unlocking-access-to-capital-with-flash-loans?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://youtu.be/jXPncidkzvw?si=jmLctp8z7AF8xvuC https://www.youtube.com/live/eFjimvV_HWI?si=HyJ6zmw09ZDnIz6C https://youtu.be/M-O11MPtEgg?si=hJY00iSAVHRFx0vH https://youtu.be/ma0ws1n1Ags https://youtu.be/04FeBtV_m3s https://www.youtube.com/live/RUCAgrTkfps?si=Ihapgypd770vtk9Y Aave....

Steelmanning XRP on Diamond Rhino with Brady Dale http://www.frontstageexit.com/ Welcome to the first episode of Diamond Rhino, which should come out every Sunday. Let me know if I got anything horribly wrong, and please bear with me as I get my workflow down. I learned a lot doing this episode. Next one should go better. Sound clips came from these videos: XRPL Foundation - Consensus https://yout...