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Bram Cohen (@bramcohen) is the inventor of the P2P BitTorrent protocol, co-founder of CodeCon, co-author of Codeville, and Founder/CEO of green cryptocurrency platform Chia.net.SHOW NOTESWant to help review this show? Here's how. [Bram's original concept for Chia. [Proof of work vs. proof of space and time in cryptocurrency, and why Bram favors one over the other. [Understanding the mechanics of how this works in layman's terms. [Bitcoin mining, ASIC chips, and the cost of electricity. [How Chia farming is more sustainable and available to the average user than Bitcoin mining, and what it's doing in the process. [What is the plot file, and what’s in it? [Bram explains how "Timelords" operate in Chia farming. [Where do the winning “bingo” numbers come from? [What’s the smallest amount of hard drive space someone needs to start farming Chia? [What is the mechanism behind Chia farming? What happens to the data? [How is a farmer rewarded for their contribution? [How does the network process and handle transactions? [How should people think of this coin? What is it used for? [There won't be any transactions at mainnet launch. Here's why. [How many transactions per second will the Chia network eventually be able to support? [How Chia will be able to support smart transactions better than Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. [What is a colored coin? [Using Chia for DeFi, here's how Uniswap on Chia could be done. [How does a rate-limited wallet enhance security? [Will there be support for pools in Chia? [On supply of coin, halvings to fixed rewards, and inflation. [Is there any advantage to farming on SSD vs. standard hard drives? [Efforts Bram and the Chia team have made in improving plot speeds. [The rude awakening that prompted me to fix my hard drive plotting. [What does Bram see Chia looking like three to five years from now? [Bram’s thoughts on NFTs, and if Chia will support them. [How do we store large amounts of data on a blockchain (like NFT objects)? More important: should we? [Bram's thoughts on Filecoin. [Does Bram know Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto? Is Bram Satoshi Nakamoto? [Is Bram bullish on Bitcoin? [Does being green mean a lot to Bram? [Why farming Chia makes me feel nostalgic. [Aspiring Chia whales don't even need warehouses or RAID arrays -- they can farm right from their apartments with homemade rigs. [Parting thoughts about the perils of celebrating on launch day. [



