Chaincode Labs Founder Alex Morcos joined us to discuss his journey, the role of the company in Bitcoin’s development and the views that drive his work.
Topics covered in this episode:

Alex’s background in high frequency trading as a founder of Hudson River Trading
How Alex first learned about Bitcoin
The vision of Chaincode Labs
Why Bitcoin represents our only chance of creating digital gold
Why Bitcoin’s resistance to change is one of its core features
Why the NYA & SegWit2x approach was misguided
How getting consensus around a hard fork blocksize increase could work
Why Alex is not excited about the efforts to use blockchains in banks

Episode links:

Chain Code Labs, Inc
Twitter Alex Morcos
Why Bitcoin doesn’t need a solution – Alex Morcos – Medium
No2x: Centralized Services – Alex Morcos – Medium
No2x: Full Nodes – Alex Morcos – Medium

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Meher Roy. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/210