Brian Hoffman on OpenBazaar's Funding Situation and Cryptocurrency's Viability in Commerce

Brian Hoffman, CEO of OB1, the main development group behind decentralized marketplace project OpenBazaar, comes on the podcast to talk about the project's recent funding issues, as well as potential future as a more purely community-driven project. We also talk about the commercial viability of cryptocurrency for payments today, and what really happened with the great SegWit2x and block size debate issue of 2017. Donate - Sponsors Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content, either here or via any of the cryptocurrency addresses in my CoinTree link. You can also send a message with a CoinTree donation. I'd love to hear from you! Thanks to my recurring donors both anonymous and otherwise! - https://cointr.ee/thedesertlynx Support us by checking out our sponsors! Protect your privacy online, sign up to NordVPN with the promo code DCN and get 68% off, or just $3.71 per month, plus an additional month free! - https://nordvpn.org/dcn If you're tired of YouTube and other platforms censoring and demonetizing creators, what are you waiting for? Join LBRY! - https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DigitalCashNetwork:c Want to live on crypto? Use Bitrefill to buy gift cards or pay mobile bills from more than 1650 businesses in 170 countries quickly, safely, and privately. - https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/?code=rRIQPc1m If don't want search engines like Google controlling your search results and selling your information, join Presearch and get paid to search! - https://presearch.org/signup?rid=865012 Music from https://www.zapsplat.com