What podcasts say about Chad Barraford
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What Chad Barraford has said on podcasts
13 statements · 7 positive · 2 negative · 1 mixed · 3 neutral
ThorChain is more decentralized than Bitcoin and Ethereum under the stated operator-based definition.
“ThorChain is more decentralized than Bitcoin, than it is in Ethereum”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 40:59
Four ThorChain operators could stop the entire protocol.
“you can get four operators to stop the entire protocol”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 41:29
The discussed coercive action against a validator is theoretically possible.
“Theoretically, sure, it's possible.”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 43:03
ThorChain validators can publicly announce departure and leave with advance notice.
“You have to broadcast publicly that you want to leave. And you would know for days in advance. And you could do it if you really were so inclined.”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 43:50
The ThorChain community has no interest in confiscating anyone's funds.
“there's no interest or appetite in this community to rug anybody's funds”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 44:17
Departing ThorChain nodes left because of regulatory concerns, not fear of fund confiscation.
“They didn't want to be... hit up by regulators or whatever the thing might be. It wasn't because they felt threatened that the protocol was going to yank their funds.”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 46:47
JP's helicopter did not display North Korean flags when Chad saw it.
“I've seen JP's helicopter in person. It did not have any North Korean flags on it at that time.”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 1:04:38
ThorChain nodes could implement a system to block or halt suspicious swaps, though likely would not.
“if the nodes wanted to do that they could uh my guess is they wouldn't but i don't speak for them”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 1:05:57
Illicit funds represent a small share of ThorChain protocol income over time.
“It's such a small percentage of the income that the protocol makes is through illicit funds.”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 1:07:27
Fees associated with illicit activity are negligible across ThorChain's full history.
“if you look at over the time span of the entire protocol's history, it's barely a blip”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 1:07:43
ThorChain's development fund receives approximately five percent of fees.
“the dev fund gets like a five percent of the it's a very small sliver”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 1:09:33
ThorChain's Treasury may return some controlled development-fund income to Bitget.
“maybe the Treasury will make a decision to take some percentage of the income that the dev fund has received that it actually has control over and send the money back to BitKit”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 1:09:54
Chad does not personally profit from laundering-related ThorChain activity.
“I don't profit at all from this activity.”
Open the episode · THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?Listen at 1:10:31
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