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Ben Bollen & Jason Goldberg: Simple Token – Bringing Tokens to Mainstream Consumer Applications
FromEpicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
Ben Bollen & Jason Goldberg: Simple Token – Bringing Tokens to Mainstream Consumer Applications
FromEpicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
Oct 11, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
As the ICO boom continues to drive funding and interest in cryptocurrencies, mainstream consumer applications are increasingly looking towards tokenization. One of these was social network Pepo, founded by veteran entrepreneur and previous founder of fab.com Jason Goldberg. Faced with the difficulties of integrating blockchain, they decided to start Simple Token – a company focused on building easy solutions for mainstream applications to use blockchain.
Simple Token CEO Jason Goldberg and Chief Technology Strategist joined us to discuss the case for branded token, Simple Tokens architecture and the balance between easy user experience and decentralization.
Topics covered in this episode:
Jason’s long history as an entrepreneur and the turbulent story of fab.com
The perils of raising too much money
How the quest to tokenize social network Pepo lead to founding Simple Token
The opportunity in tokenizing mainstream consumer applications
How Simple Token uses Ethereum and sidechains to allow companies to issue branded tokens
How Simple Token backs branded tokens through a staking contract on Ethereum
The economics of Simple Token and upcoming ICO
Episode links:
Simple Token | The Bridge between Cryptocurrencies and Consumer Apps.
Jason Goldberg - This Week In Startups
Simple Token Pitch Deck
Simple Token Technical Whitepaper
On the Rebound from Epic Failure – Hacker Noon
Simple Token Telegram Channel
This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/204
Simple Token CEO Jason Goldberg and Chief Technology Strategist joined us to discuss the case for branded token, Simple Tokens architecture and the balance between easy user experience and decentralization.
Topics covered in this episode:
Jason’s long history as an entrepreneur and the turbulent story of fab.com
The perils of raising too much money
How the quest to tokenize social network Pepo lead to founding Simple Token
The opportunity in tokenizing mainstream consumer applications
How Simple Token uses Ethereum and sidechains to allow companies to issue branded tokens
How Simple Token backs branded tokens through a staking contract on Ethereum
The economics of Simple Token and upcoming ICO
Episode links:
Simple Token | The Bridge between Cryptocurrencies and Consumer Apps.
Jason Goldberg - This Week In Startups
Simple Token Pitch Deck
Simple Token Technical Whitepaper
On the Rebound from Epic Failure – Hacker Noon
Simple Token Telegram Channel
This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/204
Released:
Oct 11, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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