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Can Gavin Wood's Polkadot 'Make Blockchain Great Again'? - Ep.202
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Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, Kusama, and Parity, discusses what he calls the "meta-protocol," Polkadot. In this episode, he talks about:
- his vision for Polkadot and the problems he set out to solve when conceiving it
- why he considers Polkadot a meta-protocol
- the implementation of parachains and parathreads, how they are defined and how they differ
- parachain auctions and candle auctions
- how DDoS attacks can be prevented on parachains
- initial parachain offerings and how they differ from initial coin offerings and avoid the regulatory problems that were so common with ICOs
- on-chain governance on Polkadot and how it works
- how immediate implementation of proposals that pass consensus will prevent forks
- his answer to those who point to Parity's history with security lapses as cause for concern about Polkadot's security
- how he sees Polkadot co-existing with Ethereum
- whether Polkadot is working toward composability
- how the Web3 Foundation and Parity plan to use their collective stake of DOTs within the network
- how he plans to address the possibility that DOT could be labeled a security
- how he imagines Polkadot will serve the enterprise world and how Polkadot will benefit enterprise blockchains
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