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#7 - Polkadot vs. Dfinity - A Brief Overview

17m | Dec 8, 2020

The two biggest and most legitimate Web3 projects around today are Polkadot and Dfinity. Decentralizing the Internet is the goal of both these projects but each has mutually exclusive philosophies on how to do it. This podcast does an overview of each to figure out which crypto/blockchain project has the right idea.


Check out the deep dive version with Evan here:

https://youtu.be/J8tXcy3dW0o


00:00.......................................................Intro

01:20.......................................................What is Polkadot

03:50.......................................................What Dfinity does instead of Polkadot

04:52.......................................................Polkadot shards and Substrate

06:35.......................................................Open vs. Closed-source ethos

10:10.......................................................Performance comparisons

13:20.......................................................Are these centralized or decentralized projects?

15:20.......................................................Business perspective on Polkadot

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