E55 - The Insights of Building Decentralized Infrastructure with Jake Yocom-Piatt of Decred

The Insights of Building Decentralized Infrastructure with Jake Yocom-Piatt of Decred This episode of Hacker Noon is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Discover why developers love DigitalOcean and get started with a free $50 credit at https://do.co/hackernoon Episode 55 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Jake Yocom-Piatt, CEO at Company 0, LLC and the Project Lead for Decred, a progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain. Listen to the interview on iTunes or watch on YouTube. In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Jake Yocom-Piatt the Project Lead for Decred. You get to discover Decred decentralized autonomous cryptocurrency and how the company is building government systems around what they are working on and organizing themselves in both a  transparent and open source kind of way.  “We're doing what we can to set a good example and try to create infrastructure which if nation states would want to use they could”.  “Here's one. What would you have instead of proof-of-stake system for US government, what if you had a system where stake was linked to the amount you've paid in taxes. To make a tax payment a virtual  Both literally and in terms of your sovereignty in the system”. - Jake Yocom-Piatt   Production and music by Derek Bernard - www.haberdasherband.com/production Host: Trent Lapinski - https://trentlapinski.com https://hackernoon.com/  https://community.hackernoon.com/  https://contribute.hackernoon.com/  https://sponsor.hackernoon.com/  https://podcast.hackernoon.com/  https://twitter.com/hackernoon/  https://facebook.com/hackernoon/  Also check out the top stories from June, the latest stories, and today’s homepage.