BM is one of the biggest names in the blockchain industry. In the early days, he communicated with Satoshi Nakamoto many times on the Bitcoin forum, and then created a number of well-known blockchain projects, including BitShares, Steem, and EOS, and realized a high-performance blockchain system.Recently, BM was rarely interviewed by the Chinese community for the first time in three years. What exactly did we say in our one-hour conversation?secondary title

Why did you write the book "More Equal Animals" in 2020?

BM: I have been working hard to protect the life, property, and justice of all people, and have created a series of market solutions through technology. The problem is that even with the most powerful technology, but the users do not have the necessary background of philosophical principles, the final result will deviate from expectations. My purpose in writing a book is twofold: one is that I am giving organized answers to my own questions, and the other is to condense what I have learned in the past ten years into this book for others to read. Readers can understand my understanding of multiple topics at once, including the following:Why we collaborate, why and how to achieve consensus, how the Pareto principle affects power.secondary title

Are you still involved with the Voice social media platform?

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What problem is Clarion trying to solve when starting a new project?

BM: Twitter, Facebook, Voice, Hive all want to provide"Communication as a service", but this is actually impossible. Logically, they are all centralized third parties, and they have the right to decide whether your speech can be sent to the whole world. And Clarion is a tool for you and your friends, as long as you have an Internet connection and can connect to their computers, your message can reach the world. Clarion uses P2P network to diffuse information, this technology is not based on blockchain development.Clarion can implement the function of email, which is similar to asynchronous communication, that is, communication when one party is offline. By using Clarion, you don't have to worry about account security, and no one can close your account, because your account exists on multiple servers at the same time, and most of these servers belong to your relatives and friends around you.Clarion's technology is similar to bittorrent,As long as it is online, it cannot be closed. Clarion is not a company.secondary title

What is your current relationship with Block.one?

BM: Now my relationship with them is the same as that of other community members and node teams. I communicate with Block.one's PBE department to explore how to collaborate with them. For Block.one,I am now a part of the communitysecondary title

What is the principle of the new consensus mechanism Proof of Burn you conceived?

BM: I also started to develop a new consensus mechanism,It is more resistant to censorship, and the node team does not need to pull votes. I call it Proof of Burn. Instead of the chain doing the most proof-of-work winning, awarding the reward to the block team,The idea behind this new mechanism is that the blockchain that burns the most tokens or deflates the most winssecondary title

What do you predict will happen to Bitcoin?

BM: If Bitcoin is really going to become a mainstream currency,It must be locked in a bank vault, like gold, by that time, bitcoin users will no longer need to transfer bitcoins, but do bank transfers. Banks will use new transfer protocol technology, and the chances of really needing to use bitcoins for transfers will be very small, only appearing in huge transfers hour,At that time, Bitcoin's mission of realizing financial freedom for human beings will also fail.secondary title

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