DSholla “It is not just about making money. We didn’t start this company to make PayPal 2.0.”
— Jesse Powell
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Tuesday 13th Nov, 2018
Company: Kraken
Role: CEO
Volatility in crypto is reflected in the businesses which have been built upon it. Only recently have we seen this volatility with Bitmain, where during the bull run of 2017 the business was generated $billions in revenue and profit, but as the market has corrected, bot...
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fergish Our guest today is Spandan Sharma from MaidSafe. We go over the results of the second community testing of Crust, the automated peer-to-peer connection library being developed by MaidSafe for the SAFE Network, and available for open source use by other P2P projects as they find useful.
In looking at all that the upper network layer needs the Crust connection level to do, we get a peek at the Routing level, which is the heart of the SAFE Network structure.
Enjoy.
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epicenterbitcoin Coil Co-Founders Stefan Thomas and Ben Sharafian joined us to discuss the broken state of web monetization and why streaming payments to creators using ILP has a chance to change the course of the web.
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TheCryptoShow Just days away from the BCH fork we talk with Dr. Craig S Wright about his thoughts on the fork and what he plans to do to maintain control. Craig also shares his thoughts on Bitcoin core, Lightning Networks and the origins of Bitcoin. Daniel Krawisz co-founder of Nakamoto Institute also sit's in for commentary and his take on the POSM algorithm coined by Dr. Wright. (Proof Of Social Media) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMCzhwm554 We also attempt to discuss Dave Klienman who was also thoug...
Read More DSholla “There are only going to be 21 million coins, there are billions of people in the world, some reasonable percentage of who might find it interesting to own a piece of Bitcoin.”
— Adam Back
Interview location: London
Interview date: Friday 9th Nov, 2018
Company: Blockstream
Role: CEO
The Bitcoin whitepaper has eight references for eight projects and technologies which enabled and inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin. One of those references is for Adam B...
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TatianaMoroz DSholla "Countries are moving towards knowledge as their main source of income because we can't rely, as a mining country or an oil country, just on our natural resources. We need to definitely take into account how technology is going to be part of the new Venezuela that we're going to rebuild once this ends."
—Antonio Ledezma
Welcome to Season Two of Distributed Dialogues. This season was inspired by the Human Rights Foundation’s Oslo Freedom Forum, focusing on the intersection b...
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adam Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy and Andreas Antonopoulos discuss the recent flurry of interest in Airdrops, their history and whether they actually work as advertised.
Later: With smart contract based exchange EtherDelta suddenly the first decentralized exchange to settle with US regulators, the conversation turns to the place of decentralization and anonymity in truly disruptive projects.
Read More TheCryptoShow Trace Mayer joins the the show from Coin Agenda in Las Vegas right on the heels of Money 2020 where we caught up with Charlie Lee the creator of Litecoin. Trace covers all of his "Coined" phrases and prediction tools he's so well known for including an anecdote about Dash creator Evan Duffield. Charlie shares his thought's on Litecoin as a test-bed for Bitcoin, Lightning Networks, BCash and much more.
Sponsored by: Dash, Edge, [Anarchapulco](http://...
Read More DSholla “Humanity needed to discover what is the best form of money.”
— Francis Pouliot
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Wednesday 7th Nov, 2018
Company: Satoshi Portal & Bylls.com
Role: CEO
Crypto tokens have come under increasing scrutiny over a range of issues:
Are they unregistered securities?
Do they hold any intrinsic value?
Can they be a medium of exchange when prices are volatile?
Are they scams?
Francis Pouliet, CEO of Satoshi ...
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Legendface66 Recently I visited India representing the DFINITY Foundation. The trip was supported by upstart venture production and consulting group, Dunya Labs, and advocacy group, InCrypt. Those ten days altered my understanding of the way technology manifests products and the driving role the needs of high growth nations will have in defining the digital landscape of tomorrow.
In this episode, I’m joined by co-founder of Dunya Labs, Cathy Guo, and co-founders of InCrypt, Nitin Sharma & Sumukh She...
Read More TheCryptoShow While in Las Vegas at World Crypto Con we were lucky enough to catch up with Paul Puey CEO and creator of Edge Wallet one of our favorites and the official wallet of The Crypto Show so please use the wallet. Joel Valenzuela also sits in with his witty impersonations of Chuck Williams the co-host of our show. Paul shares with us some of the hurdles of adding new coins to the Edge multi-coin wallet especially in regards to Monero's new Bullet Proofs protocol. Paul is long time friend of the sh...
Read More fergish A rather historical event in the United States gives us an interesting opportunity to examine a bunch important dynamics through the lens (or "Looking Glass") of Technology and Choice as a tool.
There may never have been a time, not only in the United States but the rest of the world, when we have been so connected and yet so polarized at the same time. Whether you hold to the old Chinese curse ("May you live in Interesting Times") or not, there is no question that we do live in interesting t...
Read More epicenterbitcoin Just as the Devcon4 was wrapping up, we sat down at the Prague Congress Center to share our thoughts on the event, and how the Ethereum ecosystem has evolved since we last met in Cancun.
Read More DSholla “The system is so lacking in integrity, at least 20% of $100bn is going to fraud.”
— Brendan Eich
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Friday 2nd November
Company: Brave & Basic Attention Token
Role: CEO/President
The online advertising model is broken all parties are hurting:
Users encounter a degraded experience as web pages take longer to load - leading to an increase in mobile data charges
Publishers are losing revenue to fraud, and ad blockers ...
Read More DSholla “One of the great weaknesses of the human species is we have this belief of a perfect world.”
— Steve Keen
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Monday 29th October
Project: Debunking Economics
Steve Keen is challenging modern economic theory which led us into the 2008 crisis. With his two books: Debunking Economics and Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis, Steve outlines the inherent flaws in the capitalist system which are required to make them work.
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Read More adam Stephanie Murphy, Andreas Antonopoulos and Jonathan Mohan join Adam B. Levine for a wide ranging discussion on adaptation, mimicry and how we might eventually arrive in a truly distributed sharing economy.
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Rob Welcome to episode 60 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm happy to bring to you part two of my interview with Cypherpunk and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back. In this episode, we take a deep dive into Liquid, Blockstream's new federated sidechain. There's a lot more to Liquid than I realized, and it's fascinating to hear tons of details about the protocol. I lead us astray with some of my questions, but Dr. Back never fails to drop tons of crypto-knowledge.
And if you missed the fi...
Read More DSholla “I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building.”
— Dan Held
Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Thursday 25th October
Company: Picks & Shovels
Role: Co-founder and Director of BD
It is 10 years since Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in that time the protocol has survived so much: state-level bans, the Mt. Gox collapse, the closing of the Silk Road and civil war to name a few. Bitcoin h...
Read More epicenterbitcoin Former Ethereum CTO and Parity Founder Gavin Wood joined us to discuss the early days of Ethereum, how Parity came about, their new blockchain framework Substrate and the case for on-chain governance.
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TheTerran
First time for a crypto to be used in the mainstream.....the real mainstream instead of a promise of that in the future.....that could be huge. I also like the way that Kik appears to understand crypto very well and they seem intelligent on this.
Responses under the show are always Adam (FYI) RedHat didn't invent linux, and it didn't start the linux network effect. Those were precursors before someone could build a profitable, real business on what was a project transitioning from enthusiast...
Globe99
Interesting take, I guess this is Adam? (Using first-person phrasing from a show's account makes things a little confusing ;) There are some points to respond to here: Control + Profit are pretty vital parts of any entrepreneurial enterprise. Without...
It depends on how the Waves project is managed and developed. protocol level DEX's may be better in this respect than smart contract ones on L2
I recently did a few recordings for a new show called TokenPoints, which specifically talks with people doing Non-Fungible Token projects. On episode 1 we discussed this question of "How much control does a project need in the beginning, and should t...
Control + Profit are pretty vital parts of any entrepreneurial enterprise. Without those as motivators to the apparently one guy who built it or the people who bought it from him, do you think Etherdelta would exist or be as successful? Without con...
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