Tatiana interviews Parneet Pal & Cecily Sommers. Topics Include: --"Can We Live Forever?" --"Living in the Present" --"Meditation and Tips for Young Entrepreneurs" --"The Nature of AI" About the Guests: -Parneet Pal, M.B.B.S., M.S. is a Harvard- and Columbia-trained physician on a mission to scale the ideas that make wellbeing easy and accessible to all using evidence-based medicine and innovative behavior change models. She made a... Read More

While today decentralization seems like a revelation, one thinker more than any other stands as its chief proponent. In 1945 Friedrich Hayek bucked the post war fashion of command-control thinking and announced the futility of central economic or societal planning. His essay, The Use of Knowledge in Society, is a concise and accurate argument for the organizing principles of the internet, horizontal organizations, and blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Guests: Jeffrey Tucker: CLO...

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We're joined by Trent McConaghy, CTO and Co-founder of BigchainDB and Ascribe, and Fred Ehrsam, former Co-founder at Coinbase. We have a fascinating discussion about the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies. We also discuss the public implementation of BigchainDB, the Interplanetary Database (IPDB), and the applications for a public big data storage network accessible to all of humanity.

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On Today's Episode

Stephanie, Andreas and Adam are joined by Jonathan Mohan for a discussion of perverse incentives and illusory power.

This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin and featured content from Andreas Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine

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Today we compare in-depth the self-sovereign and federated models of identity. Why is our means of proving who we are important? Well, for one thing, relying on an authority which doesn’t have our best interests at heart to manage our identity is one of the many problems exploited by the decentralized propaganda machine described last episode.

Our guests today are Christian Lundkvist, senior technologist at ConsenSys and Chief Architect and Researcher of the uPort self sovereign identity pl...

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We're joined by Alex Van de Sande and Nick Johnson to discuss their approach to creating an open, secure and decentralized naming system for the Ethereum Network. The Ethereum Naming System allows users to register .eth domain names, and map those names to any Ethereum address.

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The surprising outcome of the last US Presidential election brought attention to the effect fake news and social media manipulation can have on public thought. Today we are going to take a deep look at what exactly took place, while considering possible solutions to the problems we uncover. Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath, Co-founders of Scout.ai, join us to discuss their investigative piece, The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine, while media and marketing guru Amanda Gutterman of Co...

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Tonight’s episode has John Ferguson of “Technology and Choice” podcast sitting in as co-host for Danny who is on the road in his “Crypto Cannabis Tour” to bring the General Bytes Dash and Bitcoin ATMs and the Alt36 Dash point-of-sale systems to cannabis dispensaries and other establishments in states where marijuana is legal. In short, to “bank the unbanked.” Danny describes his success so far in installing an ATM at a computer shop in the heart of the cannabis district in Denver, ...

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Technology enables new forms of social organisation. That statement is itself a truism, but as we see technological development accelerate, our means of organising ourselves is constantly changing.

Our guests today are Joseph Lubin and Vinay Gupta. Joe is the Founder of ConsenSys and co-founder of Ethereum. He has a background in robotics, software engineering, and wealth management. He also had a short stint as CEO of a Jamaican record label. Vinay Gupta is the inventor of the Hexayurt emerg...

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In Brief: A walkthrough of the pressing legal issues in blockchain today. Over the last few months a varying group of legal professionals from New Zealand, Australia, and the USA have been meeting to discuss current events, challenges, and peculiarities in the interaction between blockchain and law. As facilitator I suggested we might record the sessions. This is the first to be published. Attendees: Arthur Falls: Host of The Ether Review, State Change, Director of Media, ConsenSys Alex Sims...

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On Today's Episode

Stephanie and Adam are joined by Jonathan Mohan for a wide ranging discussion as the bitcoin and cryptocurrency networks continue into

A Few Highlight Topics:

High Transaction Fees

Lightning, Factom and other layer 2 solutions

Ethereum and the Remittance Story...

And more!

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Tatiana interviews John Barrett of Bitcoins and Gravy & Sean Malone of FEE. Topics Include: "The Importance of Meda in Liberty Outreach" "How To Reach New People To Liberty" "The Modern Music Scene" "Bitcoin and Music" About the Guests: -As the host of Bitcoins and Gravy, John Barrett draws upon a lifetime of experience. With a BA in Communications and Public Address, a background in radio broadcasting, years of live performance ex... Read More

Tonight we talk with Ken Ramirez CEO and co-founder of Alt36 about their new product that will bring a General Bytes ATM and point of sale for Dash in to Cannabis dispensaries.  Dispensaries have a serious problem of less than desirable access to traditional banking. Dash and Alt36 aim to solve that problem with digital currency.

Sponsored by: Dash, CryptoCompare Bitmain and [Defense Distributed](http://defdis...

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In this fourth installment of The Hemp Corner, we set out to better understand the amazing biochemical relationship between the human species and the cannabis plant. To get very far we have to break out some understanding of biochemical interactions in general and how they influence the human experience.

Our guest, Dr. Jim Laurenzano, is a medical doctor who not only has a deep technical knowledge, but his 35 years of striving to engage his patient's understanding and full participation in t...

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Coin Center Director of Research Peter Van Valkenburgh joined us to discuss the most important policy issues facing Bitcoin and other open blockchain networks.

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Tatiana and Josh interview Jeffrey Tucker of Liberty.me. Topics Include: "The Catholic Church and Libertarianism" "Trump's New Tax Proposal" "What To Do About Trump" "Prohibition" About the Guest: -Jeffrey Tucker is director of content for the Foundation for Economic Education, CLO of Liberty.me, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, member of t... Read More

Tonight we sit down with Anthem & Cindy Blanchard, Andrew Yashchuk and John Ferguson. Anthem, Cindy and Andrew join us to discuss their new venture, Anthem Gold (AnthemGold.com) which is a Gold pegged crypto set to be released in short order. ( bnktothefuture.com/pitches/anthemgold/landing ) Andrew is part of the project as well as a key member of the Factom team. Andrew also discusses Factom Harmony a new Blockchain tool for the Mortgage Industry. Our good friend John Ferguson of the "Technolog...

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Tatiana interviews ever-informative Tom Woods. Topics Include: --"Liberty Classroom" --"The Trump Enigma" --"The Importance of History" --"The Consequences of Voting" About the Guest: -Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show, which releases a new episode every weekday. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbi... Read More

Tatiana Moroz joins the show to talk about the sensationalized hit piece "American Kingpin" an intentionally deceptive take on Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. Then Tiana Laurence of Factom and author of "Bitcoin for Dummies" discusses her new book and her work in the Blockchain space. Brian Deery Chief Scientist of Factom also joins in on the discussion.

Sponsored by: Dash, CryptoCompare Bitmain and [Defense Dis...

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Welcome to Bitcoins and Gravy Episode #92. On today's show I am privileged to be speaking with Stuart Lackey a graduate student completing his Master’s Degree in Healthcare Informatics at Lipscomb University right here in Nashville, Tennessee. Stuart and I have a great conversation about his program and how he envisions the future of healthcare as we move into the age of blockchain tech. In the second half of the show we talk about cryptocurrencies and the changes we see coming in not too di...

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