From the Front Page - Epicenter Bitcoin
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#257 Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin - Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
October 17th, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Kevin Owocki, the Founder of Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based marketplace that leverages the open source community to incentivize and monetize development work. Read More -
#256 Aleksandr Bulkin & Jake Brukhman: CoinFund - Crypto-Investing by Community Building
October 11th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Jake Brukhman, CEO, and Alexander Bulkin, Chief Alchemist, to discuss the latest thoughts on investing in the cryptocurrency space. Read More -
#255 Kathleen Breitman & Arthur Breitman: Tezos - The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth
October 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Tezos co-founders Arthur and Kathleen Breitman to discuss the Tezos vision, history and where the project is heading next. Read More -
#254 Allen Day: Google's Mission to Provide Open Datasets for Public Blockchains
September 26th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Allen Day, Science Advocate at Google. Earlier this year, he and his team released both Bitcoin and Ethereum as public datasets in Big Query, Google big data IaaS offering. Read More -
#253 Angela C. Walch: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains
September 19th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by law professor Angela Walch to discuss her controversial ideas surrounding the role of trust in blockchain networks and why regulators should consider treating software developers as fiduciaries. Read More -
#252 Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs (rebroadcast)
September 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin The legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer joins us to discuss his paper on DAOs. It explores how a decentralized, transparent DAO making decisions using prediction markets could create more efficient democratic systems. Read More -
#251 Glen Weyl: Radical Markets - Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
September 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Political Economist Glen Weyl joined us to discuss his new book 'Radical Markets', which explores how the structure of capitalism and democracy could be uprooted to lead to a more just society. Read More -
#250 Clement Lessage & Federico Ast: Kleros - Crowdsourced Arbitration for Blockchain Applications
September 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by, Federico Ast and Clement Lessage, respectively CEO and CTO of Kleros. This dispute resolution layer provides smart contracts with a fast and secure process for arbitration. Read More -
#249 Ryan Zurrer: Polychain - A Crypto Hedge Fund Success Story
August 22nd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Ryan Zurrer, Principal and Venture partner, at Polychain capital. Polychain capital is a breakout crypto hedge fund with over $100 million in assets under management. Read More -
#248 Uri Klarman: bloXroute - Layer-0 Scaling with the Blockchain Distribution Network
August 15th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Founded by a team of researchers and systems designers from Northwestern and Cornel University, bloXroute is a layer-0 scaling solution which allows practically every blockchain network to “scale today.” Read More -
#247 Ryan Selkis: Messari - Bringing Transparency and Self-Regulation to the Blockchain Industry
August 9th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Messari CEO Ryan Selkis joined us to discuss how creating an open, distributed crypto data library will bring transparency to the industry. Read More -
#246 Guy Zyskind: Enigma - Providing Scalable Privacy-Preservation to Smart Contacts
August 1st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Enigma is a platform for scalable decentralized apps which preserves privacy. The Enigma network treats Ethereum smart contracts as “secret contracts” and can perform computations on encrypted data. Read More -
#245 Martin Becze: Primea - The Next-Generation Blockchain Operating System
July 24th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Martin Becze is a researcher at Dfinity working on a next-generation “Blockchain Operating System” called Primea - a continuation of his work on the eWASM project from his time at the Ethereum Foundation. Primea is an actor based IPC layer intended for use with WebAssembly programs. Read More -
#244 Anthony Lusardi: Ethereum Classic Cooperative - Accelerating the Growth of ETC
July 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Anthony Lusardi, Director of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative, an organization who's goal is to promote the development and growth of the Ethereum Classic Network. Read More -
#243 Izaak Meckler & Evan Shapiro: Coda - A Succinct Blockchain
July 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin O(1) labs is a pioneering company that uses zkSNARK technology in order to construct a cryptocurrency blockchain, called Coda, that solves the blockchain size scalability bottleneck. Read More -
#242 Neha Narula: MIT's Digital Currency Initiative - A Research-Driven Approach to Blockchain
July 4th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Neha Narula, Director of the MIT's Digital Currency Initiative, joined us to discuss the evolution of the DCI, their most important research items and the recent controversy around IOTA. Read More -
#241 Eric Larchevêque: Ledger - How to Build an Industry-Leading Cryptocurrency Security Company
June 27th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Eric Larchevêque joins us to discuss the meteoric rise of Ledger from a ten person team to now nearly 150 people on three continents. This fascinating discussion is a master class in product development, scaling at lightning speed, and staying true to your vision when everyone is pushing you to change course. Read More -
#240 Pamela Morgan: Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning
June 21st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Lawyer Pamela Morgan joined us to discuss her new book “Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning”, a simple guide for cryptoasset owners to pass their holdings to their loved ones. Read More -
#239 Grigore Rosu: The K framework - a framework to formally define all programming languages
June 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Grigore Rosu, Prof. of computer science at UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] for a deep dive into the K framework. The K framework is mathematic logic and language that enables language developers to formally define all programming languages; such as C, Solidity and JavaScript. This technology has massive implications for smart contract programming language development, and formal verification efforts in the blockchain space. Read More -
#238 Dr. Amrit Kumar & Dr. Ilya Sergey: Scilla - A Formal Verification Oriented Contract Language
June 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Dr. Amrit Kumar and Dr. Ilya Sergey to discuss Scilla, the smart contract language of the upcoming Zilliqa blockchain. In a previous episode, we've already covered the vision and technical approach of Zilliqa to solve the transaction scalability problem of permissionless blockchains. This episode focuses specifically on their smart contract language development efforts. Read More
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