Part-Time Show's Podcast
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Hosted by Particl Ambassador Dr. Kapil Amarasinghe, the Part-Time Show is your weekly dose of crypto news. Join Dr. Kap and his guests as they discuss various topics surrounding privacy, eCommerce, blockchain, business, and more.Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH
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Episodes
Episode 17 - Unbreaking Capitalism
February 11, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBIn this episode of the Part-Time Show, we outline the impact of Quantitative Easing (QE) on stabilizing financial markets post-2008 whilst simultaneously exacerbating global wealth inequality and worsening living standards for the majority of global citizens. At the same time, we use the problems highlighted to propose some radical and completely novel structural changes to our current capitalist and corporate structure that would serve to perpetuate efficient stock market growth whilst red...
Episode 16 - Information Networks
January 25, 2021 17:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBIn this episode of the Part-Time Show, we explore the idea of social mobility being linked to physical mobility with the idea that public transport networks function in and serve a similar purpose to social media networks (i.e., enabling the flow of people and ideas which underpins liquidity). We make the argument for why public transport networks should be free and why this would improve our economy and culture whilst helping to combat the isolationism that is enabled by many social networ...
Episode 15 - Currency Wars: A History of the Petrodollar and the Future of USD
January 15, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis one is a very special episode which goes into the origins of the fiat currency system, outlines how, and why, the USD emerged as the de facto dominant global reserve currency along with a look into it's possible future. This is admittedly an extremely complicated topic, but delivered concisely and clearly. It's an essential 15 minute listen for anyone interested in deeply understanding the fundamentals and future horizons of global finance. --- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show...
Episode 14 - National Service Mandate
December 15, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBIn today's episode, Dr. Kap talks about why he thinks a National Service program that implemented non-militarized service options should be mandatory in society and why he thinks such a program, if properly, implemented could lead to a fairer, more egalitarian society for its citizens. Yes, that might not sound in keeping with the spirit of some of our earlier episodes, but listen out, in 15 minutes, the argument becomes super clear! --- Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Apple Podcast: h...
Episode 13 - Why I Won't Be Staking my ETH!
November 30, 2020 19:00 - 10 minutes - 6.99 MBIn this episode of the Part-Time Show, I explain why staking my ETH holds absolutely no appeal to me and run a contrarian, but valid, counterargument to staking as a long timer ETH hodlor. --- Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Available on Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/ttz59c8 Available on Google Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/wdgjtv2 Follow Dr. Kap on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegreatestdoc Join the Particl server on Discord: https://discord.me/particl Join the Part...
Episode 12 - Technology Always Trumps Politics - Blockchain to End Voter Fraud
November 11, 2020 16:00 - 8 minutes - 6.06 MBIn this episode of the Part-Time Show, we discuss how blockchain and distributed ledger technology can and already is being used to create systems that can definitively prevent voter fraud, prevent voter suppression, improve participation and provide full, instantaneous transparency whilst preserving the privacy of it's participants. --- Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Available on Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/ttz59c8 Available on Google Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/w...
Episode 11 - Bitcoin is not Decentralized but Decentralised eCommerce Will Be)
October 23, 2020 19:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBBitcoin is not decentralized—65% of hashpower is concentrated in China and so, subject to geopolitical influence and collusion! But all hope is not lost; the emergence of decentralized eCommerce (DeCommerce) will allow it to be truly free again. In this episode of the Part-Time Show, we explore the technological updates to Bitcoin that are freeing it along with a current evaluation of Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake strategies. --- Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Availabl...
Episode 10 - The New Capitalism is DeCommerce
October 12, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBOn this episode of the Part-Time Show, we address the big issue of global wealth inequality and how it has led to a 40-year liquidity war with an impending 51% attack on our global economy. We discuss the role of cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technologies in combating this war and talk about the transformative role of such projects in leading to better forms of capitalism and governance! --- Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Available on Apple Podcast: https://tiny...
Episode 9 - DeCommerce is the Real DeFi
October 05, 2020 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBOn this episode of the Part-Time Show, we discuss the problem with the current DeFi hype train in cryptocurrency and why this Doctor doesn't think it will be the catalyst for a sustainable bull run. Instead we make the case for real world usage of cryptocurrency in retail spending for eCommerce as the next major driver for real growth in the industry and explain why! --- Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Available on Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/ttz59c8 Available on Go...
Episode 8 - Medicine 2.0 with Ned Saleh
August 03, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBThis episode is a deep 1.5h exploration looking into the potential future of predictive and preventative medicine, diagnostics, biomedical data analysis, data privacy and wellness as we dive into cutting edge emergent technology offered by Ned Saleh of Silicon Valley startup Synsal. It is essential viewing for any medical professional interested in understanding the future direction of medical diagnostics and indeed the evolution of the profession in it's entirety. --- Learn more about Sy...
Episode 7 - Medicine 2.0 with Ned Saleh
April 30, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBThis episode is a deep 1.5 hour exploration looking into the potential future of predictive and preventative medicine, diagnostics, biomedical data analysis, data privacy and wellness as we dive into cutting edge emergent technology offered by Ned Saleh of Silicon Valley startup Synsal. It is an essential viewing for any medical professional interested in understanding the future direction of medical diagnostics and indeed the evolution of the profession in it's entirety. Read more about ...
Episode 6 - A tale of Ventilator Valves and 3D printing (Interview w/ Raheem Willoughby)
April 03, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this episode, we interview special guest and good friend Adam Raheem Willoughby who has 7 years of experience in 3D printing. We discuss his recent work in the field along with a more general discussion about developments in the industry including potential medical use cases as already demonstrated by the recent Covid-19 outbreak. --- Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Available on Apple Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/ttz59c8 Available on Google Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/wd...
Episode 5 - The Death of Liquidity
March 09, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBCorporations dismantled, why global liquidity has been restricting even when global wealth is growing. I sit down and explain what liquidity is and why Quantitative Easing, Trickle Down economics and global wealth consolidation into a minority of holders is killing our economy leading to stagnant and even declining standards of living in many parts of the world. More importantly I offer a genuinely novel solution that might provide some long term answers. --- Available on Spotify: https...
Episode 4 - A Chat with Joe Fisher on the Importance of Private eCommerce
February 24, 2020 19:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBOn this episode of the Part-Time Show, we sit down with Joe Fisher, long-time white label seller, product inventor, and advisor to the Particl project, on the importance of a more private way to do eCommerce in this day and age. Listen as we go over the modern challenges of selling online and how can decentralized and private marketplace solutions can help alleviate these issues and level out the playing field for small and large scale merchants alike. A special thanks to Joe Fisher for ta...
Episode 3 - Free Money, Free Healthcare, or Painful Death?
February 05, 2020 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10 MBIn this episode of the Part Time Show we discuss the paradox of healthcare and present you with an interesting choice; a lifetime of free health and social care, or give it up at the age of 30 for the gift of a lump sum of cash equal to its cost? One or the other, we explore the consequences in a thought experiment designed to help you figure out who you really are! --- Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegreatestdoc Join the Part...
Episode 2 - A Chat with John McAfee
January 13, 2020 20:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this special episode of the Part-Time Show, Particl ambassador CryptoRamble and I have the great pleasure of sitting down with the world-renowned John McAfee and have a chat about the nature of government, politics, privacy, his presidential run, and crypto. Special thanks to Particl community member Crypto Stone who set up this interview and to CryptoRamble for sitting up with me and making this a collaborative production! Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Follow me on Tw...
Episode 1 - Slush Thoughts, Integrations & More
December 07, 2019 01:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBIn this first episode ever of the Part-Time Show, I give my thoughts on being at Slush Helsinki, the world's largest startup conference, as a representative of one of the only blockchain projects in attendance and what that tells about the current level of adoption. I also go over the necessity of blockchain projects to work together in synergy so that cryptocurrencies can finally be adoption on a global scale. Available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34Ye8QH Follow me on Twitter: https://tw...