Arthur Breitman on tokenizing the 'red hot' Uranium market
Arthur Breitman is the Co-Founder of Tezos.
In this episode, Breitman joins The Scoop to discuss the launch of uranium.io, a new marketplace for trading uranium powered by blockchain technology that looks to make investing in uranium more accessible to retail investors. The conversation also touched on geopolitical and technological tailwinds that could drive greater demand for nuclear energy.
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Sponsor break
02:41 How uranium markets work today
05:36 The limitations of uranium ETFs and futures
07:10 Tokenization and RWA evolution
15:56 Why start with uranium
18:33 Why uranium is red hot right now
23:30 Lessons from entering the uranium market
28:01 Beyond commodities
31:13 Conclusion
GUEST LINKS
Arthur Breitman on X: https://x.com/ArthurB
Uranium.io on X: https://x.com/uranium_io
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Tezos Co-Founder Arthur Breitman Looks Forward To No-hype Crypto Shining Through
This week on the Defiant Podcast we speak to Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos. Created together with his wife Kathleen way back in 2014, Tezos mainnet was launched in 2018 as a proof of stake chain with smart contracts, a combo that has now become the industry standard. They were very much ahead of their time.
Yet, Tezos has been slower to pick up than other Layer 1s such as Ethereum & Solana. We discuss its upcoming upgrades and roadmap, and how Arthur sees a deeper DeFi and NFT ecosystem evolving on the network. He argues that with the hype and vanity metrics of the bull run fading away, Tezos approach of what he considers is more thoughtful building, will shine through.
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Talking blockchain, functional programming, and the future with Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman
While blockchains are huge right now, finding one to build on that doesn’t use a ton of energy, has good privacy protections, and operates efficiently is harder than it looks. The original breakout blockchain, Bitcoin, was slow to adopt any innovations coming out of research. Other blockchains use the electricity of a small country to play elaborate gambling games. For someone looking to build the future of Web3, what are your options?
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk to Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman. After finding out that the Bitcoin blockchain wouldn’t incorporate all the good ideas generated around it—proof of stake, privacy improvements, and smart contracts to name a few—he decided to build his own.
Arthur has a background in machine learning and statistics but spent his early 20s teaching self-driving cars how to turn left and working in quantitative finance for high-frequency trading. High-frequency trading was data-driven, but there was so much noise that machine learning didn’t do very well. Self-driving cars, meanwhile, presented a more structured problem, so neural networks could yield good results.
Around that time, Arthur got bit by the crypto bug. It lived at the intersection of a lot of his interests: Cryptography touched on computer science and math, but his time in finance got him wondering about banks and money work. The idea of individual sovereignty scratched a personal philosophical itch.
Naturally, Arthur decided to try some mining software. It took all of his computer’s resources, so he uninstalled it. But after seeing the price of Bitcoin break a dollar and other news items about it, he looked closer. He started to think about what a company could do if it didn’t have to maintain banking relationships. He thought about possible applications, like decentralized poker.
When Bitcoin refused to adopt the improvements developed by competing alt coins, Arthur started thinking about a new blockchain that would respond to new developments and focus on efficient processing, security, and a good smart contract system. Forking the code wasn’t enough; he needed a new ledger.
That’s when Tezos was born. It was initially built by a small team of OCaml programmers using that language’s functional subset. Arthur was inspired by the example of WhatsApp, which was built by a small team of senior Erlang engineers. While OCaml would limit the talent he could hire, it would be a very efficient way to build an error-free transaction system. He could have built the whole thing in Java, sure, but Arthur estimates that it would have cost a whole lot more.
If you’re interested in learning more about what an engineer’s blockchain ecosystem looks like, check out the Tezos home page. Discover building on Tezos: https://tezos.com/build/
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Arthur Breitman on the Biggest Problems in Blockchain Design
We continue to see an explosion of interest and money flowing into the crypto/blockchain space. But recent price declines and the Terra disaster have raised new questions about what the whole point is. So ... what is the whole point? What is crypto good for? To get a better understanding of the state of the technology and the market, we speak with Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of the Tezos blockchain. The episode was recorded at the Milken Global Institute Conference in Beverly Hills.
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Crypto Philanthropy: How to Donate to Make Real-World Impact - Ep.296
Some of the biggest names in the crypto industry discuss their personal giving philosophies, how blockchain technology could change the dynamics of giving to charity, and which crypto projects are making a lasting real-world impact. Guests include Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital; Caroline Ellison, co-CEO of Alameda Research; and Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos. Show topics:
the definition of effective altruism
why Haseeb thinks crypto is the best industry for effective altruism
how Haseeb and Arthur differ in their philosophy of doing good
why blockchain technology is less important than liquidity when donating money across borders
whether Axie Infinity is making a real-world impact
why Arthur thinks Axie’s impact will be short-term and not sustainable
whether people should donate now versus later
Haseeb’s and Arthur’s thoughts on how giving changes people
what people working in crypto can do to give back
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Haseeb Qureshi
https://twitter.com/hosseeb
Arthur Breitman
https://twitter.com/ArthurB
Miscellaneous
Effective Altruism
https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism/
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Ready Layer One: Who Competes With Ethereum? - Ep.174
This week’s Unchained is my panel at Ready Layer One! We talk everything layer one with four key players and projects -- Illia Polosukhin of NEARprotocol, Zaki Manian of Cosmos, Rob Habermeier of Polkadot, and Arthur Breitman of Tezos — to find out how these projects plan to compete with Ethereum and attract developers and users. We discuss:
What platforms they are building and at which stage in development they are
How they differentiate themselves from Ethereum, and what problems they believe need to be solved
How they plan to attract devs in an industry of network effects
Whether or not Bitcoin and Ethereum are direct competitors
Whether, in the long run, crypto will be more winner-take-all or there will be multiple, interoperable chains
How they plan to bring new users into the space
How they think the transition to ETH2.0 will shake up the existing blockchain space
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Episode links:
Illia Polosukhin: https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon
Near protocol: https://near.org
Zaki Manian: https://twitter.com/zmanian
Cosmos: https://cosmos.network
Rob Habermeier: https://twitter.com/rphmeier
Polkadot: https://polkadot.network
Arthur Breitman: https://twitter.com/ArthurB
Tezos: https://tezos.com
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From the Oslo Freedom Forum: Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State - Ep.64
This recording is of Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State, a series of talks and a panel from the Oslo Freedom Forum put on by the Human Rights Foundation. In this session, hear presentations from Ryan Shea of decentralized technology platform Blockstack; Galia Benartzi of smart token platform Bancor; Steve Waterhouse of surveillance-free internet project Orchid; and Arthur Breitman from smart contract platform Tezos. Afterward, I moderate a panel among the four speakers that touches on the ways in which blockchains can be used to curb human rights abuses -- but also how bad actors can also use them for nefarious purposes.
Oslo Freedom Forum: https://oslofreedomforum.com
Human Rights Foundation: https://www.hrf.org
The four presentations:
Ryan Shea https://twitter.com/ryaneshea of Blockstack: https://blockstack.org
(Also check out his interview with cofounder Muneeb Ali on Unchained: http://unchainedpodcast.co/blockstack-on-getting-independence-from-google-facebook-and-amazon)
Galia Benartzi https://twitter.com/galiabenartzi of Bancor https://www.bancor.network/discover
Steve Waterhouse https://twitter.com/deseventral of https://orchid.com
Arthur Breitman https://twitter.com/arthurb of https://tezos.com
Be sure also to listen to the Unconfirmed podcast episode with Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation -- not to be missed if you're interested in the topics discussed during Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State! http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/alex-gladstein-of-the-human-rights-foundation-on-the-first-crypto-war-ep021
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