Episode 193: The Early Days of Cosmos, Chorus One & Epicenter with Brian Crain

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Brian Fabian Crain (https://twitter.com/crainbf), a fellow podcaster from Epicenter (https://epicenter.tv), founder of Chorus One (https://www.chorus.one/) and an early member of the Berlin crypto community. The conversation starts from Brian’s early involvement in Bitcoin in 2013 and his role in the local Berlin community, leading him to launch the Epicenter podcast. Brian then tells his story of founding Chorus One, a validator whose history is tightly connected to that of Cosmos as a whole, finally moving into the present day of bridges, liquid staking and the future of Proof of Stake blockchains. Here are some links for this episode: Gnosis & Full Node with Friederike Ernst, Zero Knowledge Episode 94 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/94) Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev, Zero Knowledge Episode 188 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/188) Look into Solana, Zero Knowledge Episode 135 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/135) Staking derivatives & DeFi with Alex Evans (and Tarun!), Zero Knowledge Episode 140 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/140) Announcement (https://medium.com/chorus-one/zero-knowledge-validator-chooses-chorus-one-as-a-staking-infrastructure-partner-9bfb26d7800a) about Chorus One and ZKV Partnership Keep an eye on the Zero Knowledge Podcast (https://zeroknowledge.fm) website, something pretty cool is coming soon! In the meantime, if you’re looking for a job in crypto look no further than the ZK Jobs Board (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/zkjobsboard). Thank you to this week’s sponsor, EY (https://ey.com)! Smart contracts with robust privacy technologies are the future of both business and finance. At EY, they are investing in tools, like our smart contract review service to assess consistency with standards and best practices. Users can run pre-defined automated tests and simulate smart contract execution by configuring selected functions through a user interface. To find out more about our technologies and services, visit them at https://blockchain.ey.com If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com/) to not miss any event! Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Catch us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Donate through coinbase.commerce (https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/f1e56274-c92b-4a99-802f-50727d651b38) Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ DOT: 14zPzb7ihiBeaUn9jdPW9cHKGBd9qtTuJE75hhW2CvzLh6rT