Zero Knowledge goes to devcon4: Eric Tang from Livepeer

18 Dec 2018 · 4:04

Zero Knowledge's Devcon4 interview series catches up with Eric Tang of Livepeer, the decentralized video transcoding network, for a short reflection on the conference. In a brief conversation, Tang shares his impressions of Devcon4 and what stood out to him about the event compared to prior years in the Ethereum ecosystem.

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this time in Prague I know I know the world who are you my name is Eric tang and I am from the Life Care project video project video project it's a decentralized video streaming network and you you guys were actually active here this year yeah yeah this is it's it's funny huh I actually didn't hear about this until like a couple days ago and one of the community members is streaming Def Con nice and and he was like I'm gonna do it on life here I've never I've already talked to the etherion foundation I was like what Def Con was streaming them on life peer yeah

a part of it although all the breakout rooms are I actually I was trying to watch a panel I wanted to watch like the main room and I was looking around and then all the breakouts were film sunlight or streaming life here I was super happy to see that but then it was almost like that had more visibility somehow than the main room I don't know if you know that so okay so what is this your first episode it is not my first Def Con is my second all right you were in Mexico - I was how do you what do you how do you compare these two things funny thing this year I was really happy to see a lot of great speakers that come from traditionally outside the blockchain space

so one of my favorite speakers in cory doctorow he was here and he you know I've seen him speak many times and he's like the most passionate speaker that you know he just gets everyone super excited and I was so happy to see him here delivering a message to this community right and yeah and and later I'm gonna I'm excited to see Brewster from from the archives he's coming he's gonna do a talk here I think it's it's a sign that says like the world is paying attention right and and that's that's really exciting this is these were those your two favorite talks I know one has happened in ones up to come but is there anything else that you saw that you liked yeah you know earlier

today I saw Barry White hats talk and that was really cool he he's doing research on snarks and and all the stuff that he's doing or like super super practical they're like ready to use today snart seem aetherium use cases that's amazing and like one of our one of my team my teammates yonder and has been you know doing some work on the work based on the work that but the Barry has been doing so so it was cool to like kind of go see you know where that word comes from if you could highlight one conversation you had a Def Con so far what would it be I've always it about and who one conversation you know I had a great

conversation with the cosmos team about about Uther minutes and I think is really cool and that's actually they're doing a research project with Alexi from terrible death which is another one of my favorite projects and so Alexi is basically doing turbo gas on top of turned urban consensus to try to to try to optimize the performance right and I think that's a super awesome like kind of cross-pollination of open ecosystems that's gonna bring like a lot of utility to the like to the ecosystem hopefully soon so I'm really excited about that so are you gonna be back next year

I hope I will be yes thank you I'll see you around well I guess I'll see you next year no see before they lower before I hope before yes