{"id":1295,"date":"2016-09-04T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2016-09-04T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:23:47","slug":"episode-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #84: Arcade City Glorification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4640804\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffbc00\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 84<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">September 04, 2016 \u2014 75\u00a0mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: Christopher David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When a ballot proposal that would have replaced the city ordinance failed, Uber and Lyft left Austin, TX as promised. Since May 9, there have been no ride-sharing services available in this city of almost a million people. So it\u2019s no surprise that tech-savvy Austinites, like this episodes special guest, Christopher David, who have taken matters into their own hands without the concern about red tape or corporate bullshit. <a href=\"http:\/\/arcade.city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arcade City<\/a> is a rideshare startup designed to be integrated into the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we keep it 100 here at The Bitcoin Podcast and I won&#8217;t pretend there isn&#8217;t any skepticism. The thing that worries me about this is that the guy was called out recently for being a bit of a scam artist. Turns out, he has straight forward answers to all our questions. And yes, we do have trust in him and Arcade City. Just because it&#8217;s plugged into Ethereum doesn&#8217;t mean it will solve all the logistical challenges that goes with it. This will take some time. A decentralized Uber is a logical conclusion, simple, and powerful&#8230;the question is: Is Arcade City the right strategy, model, branding, and people to execute it effectively and successfully? You know what to do&#8230;hit that play button!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qiHZM6M-THM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Christopher David When a ballot proposal that would have replaced the city ordinance failed, Uber and Lyft left Austin, TX as promised. Since May 9, there have been no ride-sharing services available in this city of almost a million people. So it\u2019s no surprise that tech-savvy Austinites, like this episodes special guest, Christopher David, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","unlock_protocol_post_locks":"","publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}