The team sits down w/ Florian Liss of Staking Facilities to discuss the staking industry, his ideas on blockchain governance, why AWS is threatening decentralization, crypto in Germany, and the possibility of a fork before ETH 2.0.
2:30 Florian’s Story
6:25 How does Staking Facilities choose networks to work with?
8:29 Why does Cosmos have a good validator set?
10:08 Who is using Staking Facilities?
12:34 What fees do you take for your service?
13:32 Do your users follow you to new networks?
16:00 How much of your time is spent on customer service?
17:54 What would it cost to implement a new system?
21:20 How do users choose which networks to stake with?
23:20 Is your userbase evenly distributed?
24:50 How do you hedge against volatility of the assets on these networks?
27:30 What’s your outlook not he growth of smart contract platforms?
32:12 Why AWS is bad for Blockchain.
32:57 Governance on PoS Networks
35:18 What chains are handling governance well?
38:45 ETH 2.0 Discussion
41:45 What are the chances ETH forks?
43:30 What makes Tezos great at active governance?
44:35 What other sectors interest you in crypto?
45:45 Blockchain and Crypto in Germany
51:00 How COVID-19 hit Munich and how it changes Europe.
55:35 Book Recommendation
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