LTB! #433 Coronavirus Second Order Effects and Improving on Bitcoin With BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen

In Today's discussion we'll briefly talk about some of the knock-on, or second order affects which the coronavirus disruption is having on our world today, and which may continue into the future. Then for the meat of the show we'll dig into specific areas where bitcoin could, or perhaps is being improved with the creator of one of the most impactful peer to peer technologies in the world today. Shownotes for LTB! #433 Topic 1 - Second Order Impacts of Coronavirus Lockdowns Social distancing and the revenge of the Hikikomori Coronavirus second order effects It’s an extroverts world but we’re all introverts this month The AOL moment for Zoom meetings and arguing the potato Interpersonal compression, zoomers and enforced quality time Will overall deaths go down because of pandemic lockdowns? The end of “Bus Mode” for Lyft and Uber Autonomous vehicles, grocery deliveries and the last mile problem Tampons, cocktail sausages and a very weird month This episode is sponsored by eToro A friendly government delivery service? Opportunities in sterilization and social changes that’ll last Automated cleansing cycles and Far-UVC Internet infrastructure, Netflix social signaling and the recycling dilemma Masks, headphones and the changing standard of social isolation TOPIC 2 - How the creator of BitTorrent thinks he’s created a less wasteful, more distributed, more secure approach to Nakamoto Consensus Decentralized systems and the critical success of BitTorrent Naming projects, vegetables and a list of grains Proof of Space and Time Warehouses of computers, competitive money burning and Keynesian stimulus Proof of Work works and that’s a huge accomplishment, but could be better Centralization, Nakamoto consensus and Proof of Stake Moats and losing the battle with ASIC-hard consensus algorithms “Grinding attacks” as