>> Announcer: From New York, it's The Cube! Covering Blockchain Week. Now here's John Furrier. >> Hello, and I'm John Furrier with The Cube. We're back here on the ground for coverage of Consensus 2018, part of Blockchain Week New York, and we've got some amazing action going on here. We got Omar Bham, who's with Crypt0, C-R-Y-P-zero. Also got a great podcast. Great to see you. Crypt0 News, you're doing a lot of great social. Love the hat, love the swag. >> Thank you so much. >> Lookin' good. >> Thank you so much. Yeah, this is a swag actually, a follower of mine actually sent me, so I get these random boxes of just shirts, but I love 'em because my entire closet is crypto shirts, and now Goodwill, because I donate all these crypto shirts. (laughs) >> That's awesome. >> Yeah, thanks. >> Well, great to have you on. >> A pleasure. >> You're a celebrity, media celebrity, but you're really an example of a rising new kind of stakeholder in the ecosystem and the community. You're producing content. You're producing with the community. It's a co-development model. You're building a network. >> Yeah, it's... >> Not audience, they're already there, but you've got a network. >> Yeah, it's that thing where you want to find that niche. >> You know? >> John: Yeah. >> And it's just we've been blessed, some of us, to find this space pretty early on and develop that presence before others perhaps could. It's just a blessing. >> So what's your take on all this place? I got to ask you, what's your thoughts? Massive crowd. What's the analysis? >> You know, I was here last year, and we were expecting, I think it was 2750 last year, this year 4000. Turns out to be 8000 people, and a big trending Twitter post today was do you think that you're getting work done? This is my Amin Gunsir. He's one of the big blockchain, he looks at the code very deeply in different blockchains. And so he said, do you feel like you're getting work done with that many people, or do you feel like you're not? And more people were actually getting work done. I think it was, like, 62% to 38%, the vote. (John chuckles) So even with the amount of people here, people are close, tight, and still getting work, you know, (mumbles). >> Well, one other thing, and this brings up a good point. I mean, when you're face to face at a physical event, you have engagement on a whole nother level. It's not digital. Not digital face to face. >> Yeah. >> And I was down in the cafeteria for the little cafe. It's supposed to be public, open, for when you buy your lunch. >> Yeah. >> It was like a conference room. I couldn't sit down. People having meetings. There is so much business being done, relationships being built. So this community really is kind of getting work done. >> Yeah. >> And a lot of it's relationship-based. >> Sure. Yes, absolutely. And, you know, it's a lot of it to do with old relationships blossoming into new relationships. It's that I trust somebody who I already trust. So a lot of these guys have been coming to conferences together for years. >> John: Right. >> And you get introduced to somebody, and then it just works that way. And that kind of a beautiful... >> John: Yeah. >> It's like a mesh network. It's not just coming here and trying to, you know, like, necessarily shill. It's like, oh, here's my friend who I trust. >> John: Yeah. >> We went to school together. And naturally automatically, maybe it's a human thing, we just connect to that person a little bit easier. >> Talk about the work you do. And you got a YouTube channel, you got a podcast, you do some Facebook. >> Yeah. >> What's the format of the show? What's your style? What are you looking for? What kind of content are you producing? Obviously it's very engaging, it's very popular. >> Yeah. >> What's your style? >> Well, originally my style was a belief that the economy was going to collapse, so I was a big investor in stocks, I was trading, and I was trying to save my 401(k). Believe it or not, this was a while back. And I was thinking, how do I grow my capital and preserve it? I was worried that we were going to have another collapse, like 2008 was the beginning of it. So I thought about the future, the singularity, and this one point where we look at Moore's law where computing prices get cut in half for chips every year and a half, was the original road map. Prices cut in half. And basically how do we connect that old world collapsing, perhaps, (John chuckles) into this new infrastructure? And cryptocurrency came at that point, where I had already had some bitcoin, and then Ethereum was coming out, and I realized Ethereum could very well provide that base protocol for the next internet of things, so... >> And the developer community uptake has been phenomenal for Ethereum. >> Yeah, it's incredible, yeah. >> So let's do a little show right now. Omar, what's going on? How's it going? (Omar laughs) What's the content like? What's the coolest thing you're seeing here? Share some stories from the show. What have you seen? >> Let me see. I did interviews with some huge people. So it's so cool just to run into, like, the creator of Lightcoin's right there giving out stickers for his cryptomagical friends. Creator of Monero talking about how he lost all his crypto in a boating accident to me yesterday. (John laughs) Talking to some big trader dudes. Hearing about some stuff I can't even talk about, like, because I promised, and we did a verbal NDA, and I honor those. But, I don't know, it's, everywhere you look, there's something to learn, and you'll be amazed. >> It's got everything into it. I mean, I love this wave, right, because one, technically it's some magical shit happening. >> Sure. >> And it's happening big time. Starting out is growing fast. Business side, radical disruption to business models. Community has been open source, kind of an extension to open source communities. So, and then you've got a glam factor, money. >> Um-hum. >> (laughs) Right, so, I mean, money, I mean... Well, what is it missing? >> You know, I had a friend actually tell me that he got kidnapped, he got kidnapped, tied up, and held at gunpoint for three hours for all his crypto, so he lost all his crypto. So mostly the people who are, like, way up there don't do all that flaunting and showy stuff. You look at the big developers aren't rolling up in the Lambos and Ferraris. Generally you want to be pretty humble and modest about what your earnings are. And so I think it's, maybe it's a sign of, like, that Floyd Mayweather phenomenon, let me show it off. >> John: Yeah. >> Yeah, let's flaunt it. But mostly, like, I think it's that, you know, when you work for somebody, you wear a suit. When you work for yourself, no offense. (laughs) >> Yeah. >> I think you look great. You go the jeans on. >> I'm not wearing a tie, so... >> Exactly. And then when you work for yourself, you can show up in pajamas. >> Yeah. >> So... >> Well, I got to agree with you that I love the mojo, and I think one of the things that's notable in this industry is the pioneers, the guys who are making the money on the front end, they're developers, too. >> Um-hum. >> They're not just, you know, guys rolling the financial Wall Street kind of thing. They're making money and they're paying it forward, right? There's a huge pay it forward culture here. >> Yes, absolutely. >> And I think that is, I think, the differentiator that no one sees, is that that ethos is self-governing. >> Um-hum. >> Yeah, I think there'll be a mainstream adoption pretty quickly. >> Um-hum. >> But still right now it's tight-knit. >> Um-hum. >> It's very cool, and it's a pay it forward culture. >> This is mainstream to me, man. Two years, seeing this space just blossom. But we're getting there. I think it's the early adopter phase. >> John: Yeah. >> Maybe a little bit of early adopter, early majority in the United States. It depends where you are in the world. In LA, everyone has at least heard of bitcoin... >> John: Yeah. >> ...or has some bitcoin where I live. It wasn't the case before when I was living in Miami and (mumbles). >> Well, Omar, I'm a big fan of your work. We showed you the clip or two. >> Oh, I'm a fan of yours. >> We're going to get that to you. >> I love what you're doing. Thank you so much for sharing it to me. >> Yeah. >> I have to have you on my own show, for sure. >> Yeah, what's the URLs? Give a plug, what's the URLs, YouTube channel, coordinates, how do people get in touch with you? >> You can go to youtube.com slash C-R-Y-P-T-zero, so it's basically crypto, but without a zero. You can go to Twitter, so you can follow me on... >> Without an O. >> Yeah? >> It's crypto without an O, or with an O? >> Not the letter O, just the letter, the number zero. >> The number zero, okay. >> So C-R-Y-P-T-zero. Then you go to Crypt0's News. Same way, I'm always Crypt0 with a zero at the end instead of a letter. So Crypt0's News, Instagram, Twitter. We're on SteamIt, Crypt0 everywhere. >> Well, let's do some code development together. You're now a Cube alumni. >> Yeah. >> Welcome to The Cube. >> Thank you so much for having me. We just met... >> Yeah, yeah. >> ...but I'm really excited to have met you. Super personality, man. >> Love the new producers. We love co-developing. We do it out in the open. We're in the open right now. We're on the floor here at Consensus 2018 bringing you all the coverage. Going to do 10 more interviews tomorrow. I did eight interviews last night. We interview anything that moves that's high-quality. Omar, thanks for coming on. It's The Cube. I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching. >> Thanks, John. >> Announcer: Live from the campus of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it's The Cube! Covering the MIT Chief Data Officer and the Information Quality Symposium. Now here's your host Stu Miniman.

>> Narrator: Live from San Juan, Puerto Rico It's theCUBE, covering Blockchain Unbound Brought to you by Blockchain Industries (upbeat music) >> Hey, welcome back everybody, we're live in Puerto Rico for the cryptocurrency, global blockchain, decentralized internet, Cube coverage in Puerto Rico part of Blockchain Unbound. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE here, also co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media Inc. And, we're here with a first Cube ever, father/son Cube segment where we're going to kind of break down a summary of the show but mainly get the take from a 22 year old. Here with me is my son Alex Furrier who's been doing the schedule and greeting all the guests. Alec has been also demoing our platform that we haven't formally announced but also Not that we have to but it's out there. theCUBE platform, all the back-end data Because it really is getting everyone here excited So, Alec, welcome to theCUBE. >> Thanks, great to be on, finally, after all these years (John chuckles) to be on, it's an honor. >> Well, thanks for all the hard work you did on the schedule but you're a young gun, you're 22 years old. This is an exciting crypto world for your generation. What's your reaction to the commentary you've heard, the stories you've heard, what's the young perspective on cryptocurrency, blockchain, what's the view? >> Totally, it's a totally crazy culture, right? So, there's a very big influx of young talent and talented minds at that, right? And, this is really changing the revolution landscape. It's accelerating the tech. These ideas are being freely shared whereas before there was bottlenecks in the collaboration aspect of the technological field, right? >> You're a gamer, I know that so you're the young eco-system You don't care about data lakes and data centers and cloud computing. What is your generation look at this as an opportunity? What's exciting about it? What's the perspective? >> Well, there's multiple perspectives. The main two I say, there's multiple perspectives. Main two, is one, there's a shit ton of way to make money. And you know, is there a scam? Is there a risk for my business? You know, blockchain is involved. And there's a little bit of that mumbo jumbo going along. But then, there's also the other side that are really into it and really applying the tech and know that this is the best way to collaborate with peers >> What's the coolest thing you've seen? >> The coolest thing I've seen is probably Hashgraph which is actually not on the blockchain and competitors of the blockchain. And that's actually increasing speeds and pretty much making the tech, the back-end infrastructure better. >> So, you dropped out of UCSB, you're going to maybe go back to school but you're also working as a product manager for our crypto project for SiliconANGLE Media, theCUBE, Cube Network, you were giving demos. What is, what are we doing? How would you explain what we're doing? And, what was some of the reactions to the demo that you were giving? >> All great reactions so far. People are very excited what we're building which is a reputation centrality metric. And, what this does, is allows us to track, what users are talking about, and where they're talking about it. And actually, rank their reputation leaderboard rankings by topic, by frequency, by impact down reverb in the entire network. And that allows us to appropriate connections between two people who have different social, culture and professional topics that they talk about. And allow them to create more value for the entire platform, for the community and more importantly, themselves. >> What is, what does that mean, what problem are we solving? >> So, we're solving the Facebook ad word problem of the old generation which is you as a user do not own your data. Right? >> Yep. >> So now, what we have is this user base struggling to find the monetary value in their social media platforms. But now, we are actually offering a way for them to reverse the paradigm and get paid for interacting with others, creating with others and contributing to the community through all of their social media outlets. >> What was the biggest thing that people reacted to at the demos, the variety of tools we showed them. What was the number one, couple of things that they reacted to, what jumped out at you? >> So, I would say what jumped out is, how blown away these people are. They really are, you know, elevated in their mindset when they think about these concepts. Because it expands their mind and when they realize that I can go and expand someone else's mind and their mind will essentially contribute to the entire community. And everyone's going to grow from one initial idea. >> What are you working on, the project? Please share with the folks, what've you been working on, what specific things that you do and you're managing. What's unique about the technology? Share some color commentary on the project. >> Yeah so right now we have a couple of projects going, and, for now, I'll just talk about the platform side of things which is the more futuristic vision. Specifically, we're creating trending communities so we could actually auto generate stories based on Twitter API data, right? And also, our own platform has even more complex metrics which we'll be rewarding people for, so people will get rewards for using our platform more than the Twitter. But we could still have native content versus in-network content being weighed differently. And so, what we're doing is routing metrics of weighted value with a contextual layer on top through natural language processing and machine learning. >> So, are some people saying "Oh, you're like Steam?" How do you respond to that? >> We're not like Steam. Steam is extremely powerhousey and it's momentum and it doesn't actually do topic weighing Right, so, and we also value attention of the crowd so what we're working on is, what do people influence with their reputation? Whereas Steam, it's like, where do people contribute? How much do they contribute? And so, what we want to do is, we say hey, you know if I get uploads on Reddit that should be weighed in the network somewhere else, right? Instead of having a overall karma, we should have one integrated karmic aspect of a topicality so that if my karma, I'm using karma as an analogy cause Reddit has the up votes karma, down votes karma. >> So what about blockchain, why are we So, how would you explain to someone Okay, you're theCUBE what is the blockchain? What is crypto mean for us? >> So, blockchain, we're using it to add a layer of trust and security to our network. So we want transparency within our network and that means we have to have a ledger for every single engagement, interaction like we tweet on the network, right? >> And the crypto, the token, does what? >> Crypto token will pretty much be able to be cashed out thru Ethereum, right, ERC20 but it would also have a weighted role in our two sided marketplace, bounty ask buy. And, that'll be the main medium of where people identify and exchange their reputation. >> How would you describe out platform to a user out there if they say, what do you like, or what are you disrupting, what aren't you like, what are you guys doing, what you disrupting? And why would I want to use your platform? >> Yeah, so I think we're disrupting, you know, multiple companies, right? And, the one I really associate with is a professional Steamit meets Brave Browser, BAT token versus Steam, right? So, BAT is attention only and attention is valuable. I'm here with you, you have a 20 minute interview with me. That's your attention, that's valuable but it's much more valuable than someone else who isn't interviewing, let's just say, someone who is less fortunate. But, that's also a real time aspect. So there's a time variable, there's a network variable and there's a topicality variable, you know the social graph, you got the interest graph, and then the value graph on top. >> So Alec, so if you had to describe what we do in one sentence, what would it be? Putting you on the spot. >> In one sentence, I would say we would call it, a decentralized media platform with rewards for the user base, based on reputation. >> Alright, my son Alec Furrier is also involved in our crypto project, part of theCUBE network coming soon, house of theCUBE is here, the crypto conference, and what better way to align with the crypto community then demoing our token enabled platform. Congratulations to you, Narendra, Kent, Jeff and the team doing a great job with theCUBE network. Cube alumni are all going to get coins, right? Not yet decided but great work Alec, thanks for sharing. It's theCUBE here, Puerto Rico. I'm John Furrier, my son Alec. Thanks for watching. (upbeat music)