Preston Van Loon, Ethereum Protocol Developer & Co-Founder of Prysmatic Labs.

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Preston Van Loon is an Ethereum Protocol Developer and Co-Founder of Prysmatic Labs. He is one of the more technical folks that we have had on the podcast and this episode dives into the work being done behind the scenes to solve many difficult challenges. If the technology doesn’t work, the entire industry is at risk. This one was a lot of fun!

In this conversation, Preston and I discuss:

• Testing frameworks

• Working at Google

• Blockchain scalability

• Ethereum 2.0

• Sharding

• Ethereum Foundation Grants

• What Preston and his team are building at Prysmatic Labs.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Preston. Hopefully you enjoy it too.

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Here are my tweets from yesterday:

Pomp 🌪@APompliano

In the 60 Minutes piece on Bitcoin, a Federal Reserve governor couldn’t respond to @AC360’s question about central bankers’ manipulation of US dollars. Instead she decided to talk about FDIC insurance and “legal protections.” 😂😂 LONG BITCOIN, SHORT THE BANKERS!!

11:39 PM · May 19, 2019

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631 Reposts · 2.9K Likes

Pomp 🌪@APompliano

This week in crypto: 1. Coinbase Custody has $1B in AUM 2. Binance starts trading/withdrawls 3. Bitfinex raised $1 billion 4. Amazon patents PoW system 5. Microsoft building on Bitcoin 6. Bitcoin still not dead :) Just another week of building! 🔥

1:02 PM · May 18, 2019

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894 Reposts · 3.86K Likes

Pomp 🌪@APompliano

RIP to those who said Bitcoin was going to $0 in the bear market 🙏🏽

2:29 AM · May 20, 2019

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254 Reposts · 2.3K Likes

Pomp 🌪@APompliano

Bitcoin is back to $140 billion market cap. This thing just refuses to die.

3:13 PM · May 19, 2019

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483 Reposts · 3.25K Likes

Pomp 🌪@APompliano

Wall Street is built on financial engineering. Bitcoin is built on software engineering. Which one do you trust?

2:32 PM · May 18, 2019

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418 Reposts · 2.48K Likes

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