{"id":18341,"date":"2020-12-15T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=18341"},"modified":"2020-12-15T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T23:08:13","slug":"blockchain-debate-podcast-diem-is-a-glorified-paypal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/12\/15\/blockchain-debate-podcast-diem-is-a-glorified-paypal\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain Debate Podcast: Diem Is a Glorified PayPal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing the Blockchain Debate Podcast again on Thursday 17 December!<\/p>\n<p>The motion is: <b>Diem (Libra) is a glorified PayPal<\/b>. I&#8217;m taking &#8220;yes it is&#8221;, Bryce Weiner is taking &#8220;no it&#8217;s more than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the pre-debate poll:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pre-debate poll:<\/p>\n<p>Motion: Diem (Libra) is glorified PayPal.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgerard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@davidgerard<\/a> (for) vs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryceWeiner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BryceWeiner<\/a> (against)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Blockchain Debate Podcast (@BlockDebate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlockDebate\/status\/1338542777446014976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, please tweet your questions. Best question gets $10 via <s>Diem<\/s> PayPal! [<i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlockDebate\/status\/1338544523375341568\">Twitter<\/a><\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s a live stream. (We didn&#8217;t try to do it live last time I did one of these, and the tech was being <i>very<\/i> finicky.) But the recording will be up at <a href=\"http:\/\/blockdebate.buzzsprout.com\/\"><b>blockdebate.buzzsprout.com.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m doing the Blockchain Debate Podcast again on Thursday 17 December! My opponent on this question is Bryce Weiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2092,2090,2085,1328,1510],"class_list":["post-18341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-blockchain-debate","tag-bryce-weiner","tag-diem","tag-libra","tag-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/libra-shrugged-paperback-header.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18343,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions\/18343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}