Episode 4: Crypto Deep Dive – Vassilis Tziokas (Matter Labs) on Bitcoin, Ethereum & Trump Coin

Participants

• Vassilis Tziokas (Head of Ecosystem - Success Matter Labs)
• Melina Mai (Big Pi Ventures)
• Nick Kalliagkopoulos (Big Pi Ventures)
• Guy Krief (Big Pi Ventures)

Summary

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:32 Vassilis Tziokas 
• 2:02 Crypto Basics
• 8:27 Bitcoin (Is there fundamental value?)
• 14:15 US Digital Asset Stockpile
• 16:31 Ethereum and building applications on top 
• 18:49 Zero Knowledge
• 20:18 Blockchain and AI
• 26:40 Current blockchain applications 
• 28:58 Stablecoins
• 34:18 FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the crypto domino
• 38:40 Government applications of blockchain
• 45:59 Can blockchain replace notaries?
• 50:37 Crypto Optimism in the US
• 58:10 Are we moving backward or forward? 
• 59:28 VC is booming and Greece is on the map