The Merge is upon us (and different TC information)

This week on The TechCrunch Podcast we talked with Natasha concerning the Y Combinator Demo Day for the Summer 2022 cohort; the highs, the lows, the brand new administration and whether or not the accelerator transferring to be extra in-person-focused is a assist or a hindrance to its further-flung individuals. Then, ever a crypto-sceptic at coronary heart, I used to be delighted to get the possibility to speak with Anita concerning the upcoming Ethereum chain merge.

First, the YC Demo Day. “The things that have stood out to me so far is that it’s a more Bay Area-based program. YC announced that about 30% of the cohort moved to the Bay Area during the accelerator and about 23% were already in the Bay Area, when they applied,” Natasha stated. “We see a bifurcation being created between the people who could (or already did) live in the Bay Area and YC’s international focus. To me, that’s an interesting tension we’re seeing play out a little bit in the batch metrics.”

On the blockchain aspect of issues, I used to be curious if the proverbial wheels have been going to return off. Anita didn’t appear too frightened. “All of the engineers I’ve talked to don’t seem to be too concerned. This has been a point of discussion since 2016; it’s been discussed, debated and tested a bunch of times. Someone compared it to the moon landing,” stated Anita (and explains the analogy within the podcast episode). “It is this huge, risky thing. It seems like a really big deal. But so much practice and preparation has gone into this process that I personally wouldn’t expect anything significant to go wrong in the process itself.”

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We coated an entire bunch of Apple information. Greg helpfully put collectively a full overview of every thing we coated, however particularly we talked about:

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