On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest in Sean Barger, Founder an Managing Partner of CPUcoin a decentralized computing platform. Sean and Keith kick off the show with exploring Sean's deep history with technology in Silicon Valley. There a flashback to the early part of Sean's career working on the first viral video game (hint a company that was located in Keith's hometown in the 80s).

Sean discusses his new project CPUcoin, a decentralized computing platform that's built on blockchain to provide security and scalability to the users of the platform and also provide financial incentives and rewards for those that provide resources to the network via the first-of-its-kind "Compute Generation Network" CGN).

On this week's Cyber-Tip, Keith discusses a just released US/UK landmark study that the majority of "smarthome" or "connected" devices are listening even when the uses hasn't logged in or subscribed to a service (such as Netflix, Amazon, etc...).