End of the Chain

End of the Chain


Independence Architecture - Brad Kam - Unstoppable Domains

June 10, 2020

About this episode


How safe is your website? At anytime a government can order the shutdown of a site and its content is forcibly destroyed. In this episode Brad Kam explains why it is necessary to have an independent architecture for the web and why it must be free.


Brad is a serial entrepreneur from Atlanta and co-founder of Unstoppable Domains, a registry business building domain names on blockchains. Previously, he co-founded Talkable, a YC backed marketing software company.


Brad's Links


Linkedin | Crunchbase


Unstoppable Domains


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What to listen for



  • Why censorship resistance matters more than ever today and why this is a question of internet architecture.
  • Why blockchain domains are better than DNS, which is not fit for purpose and not censorship-resistant.
  • Why DNS creates centralized control of the infrastructure of the internet, and how this power can be abused.
  • Why protecting free speech needs to be built into the infrastructure of the internet because there is no universal oversight.
  • How blockchain domains remove illegal content by denying access to the site but the data remains on the blockchain; so the record of it stills exists.
  • Why Sam thinks that some content should be removed from the internet because it is illegal, but there is no infrastructure to do this currently that does not involve a person or government or a decider.
  • Why Brad believes the current internet domain system is not working and why blockchain domains will create sharing between applications instead of the multiple application silos we have today.
  • Why changing the domain registry system could reduce costs and time to launch domains in the longer term by being on the blockchain.
  • How there are many further applications around how we could domains in the future and this could reduce the need for a separate payment system.
  • Why Covid-19 may change the nature of work and reduce workforce costs through remote working.
  • How San Francisco may be changed by companies going remote and how this will affect salaries and the creative nature of tech networking as we knew before.

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