
Uncommon Core 2.0
Uncommon Core 2.0 is a crypto research podcast. This show goes beyond speculation and investing, looking deeper. We explore the fundamental technology and incentives that make public blockchains work under the hood. This show is co-hosted by Hasu and Jon Charbonneau. They’ll be joined by occasional guests, speaking with some of the incredible builders and researchers who are looking to evolve this infrastructure stack to make the mass adoption of crypto possible.
Latest episodes

Jun 16, 2020 • 49min
EIP-1559 - with Su Zhu and Hasu
In this episode, Su and Hasu talk about blockspace market mechanisms and EIP-1559. Read Hasu's analysis of EIP-1559 (w/ Georgios Konstantopoulos)
Topics covered:
- what EIP-1559 is and the problems it solves
- negative-sum vs zero-sum vs positive-sum proposals
- reasons against EIP-1559
- what, if anything, can Bitcoin learn from EIP-1559
- impact on long-term security
- how realistic perpetual issuance is in Bitcoin
- elastic blocksize proposals in Bitcoin
- lessons from the scaling debate
- how parasitic L2s can threaten baselayer security
- how dApps benefit from EIP-1559
- building dApps on appchains vs Ethereum
- why every chain incl. Ethereum specializes over time
- first-price auction vs fixed-price sale
- EIP-1559 as an oracle for on-chain congestion
- moving the Overton window for changes to Bitcoin
Su Zhu is the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital.
Hasu is a cryptocurrency researcher and writer.
Together, they publish on Deribit Insights and uncommoncore.co.

Jun 8, 2020 • 35min
Evolution of Crypto Custody - with Su Zhu and Hasu
Welcome to the first episode of the Uncommon Core podcast. Su and Hasu talk about the future of custody in crypto. Follow Su on Twitter Follow Hasu on Twitter
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