When More Is Less

“Dare to Be Stupid” explores situations where technically superior products turn out to be woefully impractical.

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ABOUT

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Wrejects.com.

Sometimes, more is less, better is worse, and blatantly superior products fail to overcome their competitors. On this episode of “Dare to Be Stupid,” correspondent George Frankly explores right answers to wrong questions.

Credits

This episode was written, edited and performed by George Frankly with additional production assistance from Rob Mitchell and Eleanor Pahl. Music for this episode was provided by Gurty Beats, Jared Rubens and Sam Barsh. Image for this episode is by Ric Matkowsk on Unsplash, modified by “Speaking of Bitcoin.”

Any questions or comments? Send us an email at adam@speakingofbitcoin.show.

HOST

Adam B. Levine

Adam B. Levine joined CoinDesk in 2019 as the editor of its new audio and podcasts division. Previously, Adam founded the long-running Let's Talk Bitcoin! talk show with co-hosts Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

Finding early success with the show, Adam transformed the podcast's homepage into a full newsdesk and publishing platform, founding the LTB Network in January of 2014 to help broaden the conversation with new and different perspectives. In the Spring of that year, he would go on to launch the first and largest tokenized rewards program for creators and their audience. In what many have called an early influential version of "Steemit"; LTBCOIN, which was awarded to both content creators and members of the audience for participation was distributed until the LTBN was acquired by BTC, Inc. in January of 2017.

With the network launched and growing, in late 2014 Adam turned his attention to the practical challenges of administering the tokenized program and founded Tokenly, Inc. There, he led the development of early tokenized vending machines with Swapbot, tokenized identity solution Tokenpass, e-commerce with TokenMarkets.com and media with Token.fm. Adam owns some BTC, ETH and small positions in a number of other tokens.