Decentralization for Data Scientists | Carlos Mercado

[00:04:37] "...When you open the book, the first thing you see is not financial advice. I am not a CFA. I'm on a talent. I have no mechanism to understand your personal financial situation. My goal, which I say in the book, is to transfer my way of thinking to like a book so that you can understand how I think about this stuff in a sort of economics and finance so that you can make an intelligent decision of like what percent of my investment portfolio should they allocate to this crazy bitcoin nonsense."

Highlights of the show:

[00:00:49] Guest Introduction

[00:01:40] How you got interested in blockchain in the first place?

[00:05:17] Who did you write this book for?

[00:06:33] You also talk about some 'stablecoin; What the heck does that even mean?

[00:07:55] What causes the prices of coins go super high and skyrocketing?

[00:10:23] When people talk about blockchain and crypto, can we conflate those two? When I say crypto, does that just mean a coin or does crypto also refer to blockchain?

[00:13:13] Why do we have blockchain when we do have PayPal?

[00:15:06] Talk to us about "Finan".

[00:16:20] What is money and why should inflation affect how we think about money?

[00:23:39] Ethereum.

[00:36:25] What do 'liquidity' and 'correlation' mean and can you help us out with an example?

[00:42:52] What 'loss aversion' is all about? Can you describe this concept? Is that why losing money hurts us because it takes so much more effort to get it back?

[00:44:52] What's the average person want from finance and how can decentralized finance be useful for them?

[00:50:15] Talk about some traits of a good portfolio?

[00:55:06] Concept of how to pick a 'protocol'. What do you look at when you're picking a protocol?

[01:05:06] It's one hundred years in the future. What do you want to be remembered for?

[01:06:21] Talk about some of your interviewing experience(s).

[01:18:43] What are you currently reading right now?

[01:19:38] What is one of your favorite smells?

[01:20:15] What's something you wish you figured out sooner?

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