Cointelegraph’s Podcast agenda The first episode of the show, which debuted in December 2022, explores how cryptocurrencies can help sex workers bypass banking censorship. Since then, the show has explored countless topics, from hacktivism and blockchain-powered mutual aid to the way blockchain can be used to combat climate change and AI misinformation.
October 4, agenda Episode 20 released — To celebrate, co-hosts Jonathan DeYoung and Ray Salmond decided to interview each other to learn more about each other’s experiences hosting the podcast, their blockchain journey, and their predictions for the future of Bitcoin (BTC) etc.
Highlights and Lessons Learned
First, De Young asked Salmond if he had learned anything new from hosting agenda. Salmond said that from an investment perspective, the show highlights the importance of focusing less on short-term token prices and more on long-term fundamentals of the project – in other words, “adjusting your horizons.”
“I think what a lot of builders and founders and projects have shown us on the podcast is that their primary concern is not the token price,” Salmond said. “For those who support the project, perhaps they should also look beyond the token price to see what kind of progress the project is making in its mission statement.”
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In return, Salmond asked DeYoung what first got him hooked on blockchain technology. DeYoung said that after joining Cointelegraph, he realized the importance of cryptocurrency decentralization as a broader extension of the real principles he learned while working in the community resilience space.
“When you bring control to the community level and communities are organized locally, people are better prepared for disasters, more resilient to disasters, and better able to respond to and recover from disasters,” DeYoung shared, adding:
“When I started thinking about this from a decentralization perspective, I started to realize that the whole cryptocurrency ethos was a broader way of looking at the specific problem of community resilience and applying it to a larger scale, or Apply it to different things.”
The future of cryptocurrency
Both Salmond and DeYoung are curious about each other’s vision for the future of cryptocurrency. DeYoung believes mass adoption is inevitable, considering all signs have been pointing in this direction for some time. However, he warned that cryptocurrencies run the risk of being exploited by powerful interest groups, as often happens with new technologies.
“A realistic and perhaps long-term vision for cryptocurrencies would be similar to how the internet works now, where there are some centralized infrastructure providers and everyone is using it, or a lot of people are using it in some form. . without even realizing or understanding how the back-end technology works,” DeYoung said. “I think there will always be radical implementations of blockchain, just like the internet, but I feel like over time it will probably be sanitized.”
Salmond agreed that cryptocurrencies will become mainstream and challenged the idea that another cryptocurrency “bubble” will soon burst. “We are not in a cryptocurrency bubble right now, not even close,” he argued. “The wand isn’t even dipped into the soap solution and then someone holds it and blows into it to create lather.”
He added that while he does not believe Bitcoin will replace the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency, it is still possible for businesses and governments around the world to adopt it:
“I do think you’re going to continue to see Bitcoin on corporate balance sheets, and you’re going to see sovereign states start to put Bitcoin into their sovereign wealth funds or treasuries as well.”
Hear more from De Young and Salmond’s conversation — including their thoughts on how the cryptocurrency space will evolve, their dream blockchain projects, and more — listen to the full episode on Cointelegraph’s podcast page, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And don’t forget to check out Cointelegraph’s full lineup of other shows!
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