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Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum
June 18th, 2019 by
epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Hayden Adams to discuss the decentralized exchange Uniswap. We covered their automated system, the economic incentives powering Uniswap and the importance of decentralized exchanges. Read More -
Tal Moran: Spacemesh – The Space-Time Consensus Blockchain
June 11th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Tal Moran, Chief Scientist at Spacemesh. This new consensus protocol is designed to run on home desktop PCs, filling free space on users' hard drives to create a Proof of Space-Time. Read More -
Dominic Tarr: Secure Scuttlebutt – The “Localized” but Distributed Social Network
June 4th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Dominic Tarr, a sailor, and the Founder of Secure Scuttlebutt. This curiously named project has a fascinating approach to creating a truly distributed social network. Read More -
Dan Robinson: Rainbow Network – Off-Chain Synthetics Exchange or “Multicolored Lightning”
May 28th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, and the author the “Rainbow Network” paper. The paper describes an off-chain decentralized synthetics exchange which leverages payment channels. Read More -
Jill Carlson: Open Money Initiative – Free Access to Finance as a Human Right
May 22nd, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Jill Carlson. Recently, she co-founded the Open Money Initiative, a research organization which looks into how people use money in closed economies. Their initial focus is on Venezuela where years of economic downturn and strict currency controls have created a humanitarian crisis which has political repercussions well beyond the country’s borders. Read More -
Aya Miyaguchi: The Role and Challenges of the Ethereum Foundation
May 16th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi joined us to discuss the role of the Ethereum Foundation, their grant program, governance approach and criticisms of the Ethereum Foundation. Read More -
Mark Miller: Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts
May 7th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Mark S. Miller, Chief Scientist at Agoric. We covered his visionary Agoric papers and the convergence of his conception of smart contracts as secure bilateral agreements with blockchain. Read More -
Mike Pieciak: NASAA – A “To The Moon” Approach to Regulating Crypto
April 30th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Mike Pieciak, President of the North American Securities Administrators Association. In 2018, “Operation Cryptosweep” investigated over 200 ICOs for potential investor fraud. Read More -
Griff Green: Giveth – Creating the New Economic Model of Giving
April 23rd, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Griff Green, one of the founders at Giveth. The organization, which emerged out of the ashes of the DAO, aims to create a better model for charitable work. Read More -
Yaniv Tal: The Graph – A Marketplace for Web3 Data Indexes Based on GraphQL
April 16th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Yaniv Tal, Project Lead at The Graph. The project aims to create a scalable marketplace for high-availability blockchain data indexes. Read More -
#282 Simon de la Rouviere: Bonding Curves, Curation Markets, Token Curated Registries... and Art
April 10th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Simon de la Rouviere, an independent researcher and blogger. In recent months, Simon's research has focused on Token Curated Registries (or TCRs), and the economics of curation markets. Read More -
#281 Ethan Buchman & Sunny Aggarwal: Cosmos - Launching the Internet of Blockchains
April 3rd, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Ethan Buchman and Sunny Aggarwal of Cosmos. With its recent mainnet launch, we discuss how the network is running and address potential issues relating to governance and centralization of power. Read More -
#280 Jackson Palmer: Dogecoin - wow! so meme. such community. very charity. much story.
March 27th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Jackson Palmer, co-creator of Dogecoin. Though he has left the project, Jackson shares the story of how he created the most popular meme cryptocurrency as a joke. Read More -
#279 Brian Hoffman & Washington Sanchez: OpenBazaar - Growing a Permissionless Marketplace
March 19th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Brian Hoffman and Washington Sanchez of OpenBazaar. The project has grown to become a mature decentralized marketplace where people come together to buy and sell products and services anonymously with crypto. Read More -
#278 Daniel Lehnberg & Michael Cordner: Grin - Cypherpunk Mimblewimble
March 12th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We join Michael Cordner and Daniel Lehnberg, two of the core developers of the Grin blockchain. Grin is the cypherpunk instantiation of the Mimblewimble protocol which uses highly secure cryptography. Read More -
#277 Amaury Sechet: Bitcoin Cash - Part 2
March 5th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin Amaury Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC and one of the masterminds behind Bitcoin Cash, a fork of Bitcoin focused on on-chain scalability through enabling increased block sizes. Read More -
#276 Amaury Sechet: Bitcoin Cash
February 28th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin Amaury Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC and one of the masterminds behind Bitcoin Cash, a fork of Bitcoin focused on on-chain scalability through enabling increased block sizes. Read More -
#275 Ben Goertzel: SingularityNET - The Global AI Network and Marketplace
February 20th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, a company building a marketplace for Artificial Intelligence which leverages blockchain. Read More -
#274 Alexey Akhunov: Ethereum 1.x - BUIDLing Things One Step at a Time
February 13th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Alexey Akhunov, an independent Ethereum researcher. Alexey leads TurboGeth and the state rent working group for the Ethereum 1.x project. Read More -
#273 Christian Decker: Lightning Network - The Road to Scaling Bitcoin
February 7th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Blockstream core engineer Christian Decker to speak about the vision of the Lightning Network, how the project progressed in the last years and remaining obstacles to scaling Bitcoin. Read More
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