Unchained Parity's Jutta Steiner and Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Substrate and the Frozen Funds - Ep.119
May 14, 2019
Jutta Steiner, CEO of Parity Technologies, and Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum, dive into the innovative Polkadot network and its solutions for scalability and interoperability. They discuss the advantages of building on Polkadot's parachains versus Ethereum's dapps. The conversation also touches on Substrate as a platform for creating custom blockchains and the ongoing challenges of frozen funds in the crypto ecosystem, emphasizing the need for community-driven solutions to unlock them.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Gavin Wood's Crypto Origins
- Gavin Wood's interest in crypto started in 2013 after reading about Bitcoin adoption in Berlin.
- This led him to investigate, meet Vitalik Buterin, and start coding Ethereum in December 2013.
Jutta Steiner's Entry into Crypto
- Jutta Steiner became interested in crypto in May 2014, driven by privacy concerns after the Snowden revelations.
- She discovered Ethereum while researching secure data sharing and attended a Berlin Bitcoin meetup where Gavin Wood spoke.
Ethereum's Allure: Web3 Vision
- Ethereum's appeal lay in its potential to revolutionize the web, creating a decentralized peer-to-peer stack (Web3).
- This resonated with Jutta Steiner's desire for greater online privacy and control over personal data.