Podcast: Max Kordek - A Means to an End

Podcast: Max Kordek - A Means to an End

Part 2 of the Steven McKie character piece is featured at the top of the show! However, this episode, we also talk with Max Kordek, the founder of a new decentralized platform called Lisk. Lisk is currently in the process of their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which has already raised over 3500 Bitcoins. You do the math on that. That's Arab money right there, son. Since the launch of Lisk there was a lot of confusion about what it really is, and what it enables people to do in the future. While it’s true that you can implement practically everything into a Lisk sidechain, we believe that the....


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