From the Front Page - Epicenter Bitcoin
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#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 -
#272 Jameson Lopp: On Being a Professional Cypherpunk
January 29th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Jameson Lopp. Jameson is known for his Twitter presence and his excellent writing. Over the years, He has written extensively about Bitcoin development, cryptocurrencies, and personal operational security. Read More -
#271 Martin Koppelmann & Matan Field: How the dxDAO could become the world’s largest organization
January 24th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Martin Köppelmann, Founder of Gnosis, and Matan Field, Founder of DAOstack. We talked about the dxDAO, a DAO, which will manage the decentralized exchange protocol DutchX and could be the first DAO to get escape velocity. Read More -
#267 Nadav Hollander: Dharma -- A protocol for tokenized debt
December 25th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Nadav Hollander, co-founder and president of Dharma, a decentralized protocol for bringing tokenized lending contracts to the ethereum blockchain. Read More -
#266 David Andolfatto: The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the Banking Sector
December 18th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by David Andolfatto, VP of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In a recent paper, he explores the impact central bank digital currencies on the monopolistic banking sector. Read More -
#265 James Prestwich: Summa One - Cross-chain Financial Instruments and Contracts
December 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by James Prestwich, co-founder and CEO at Summa. Summa designs and implements cross-chain financial contracts and recently executed the first dutch auction in which participants bought ethereum based NFTs trustlessly with bitcoin. Read More -
#270 : Looking Back on 5 Years of Epicenter
January 15th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin This week, we look back on the early days of Epicenter and how the podcast has evolved over the years. We also answer your questions in our first ever AMA. Read More -
#268 Andy Bromberg: CoinList - Capital Formation for the Crypto Industry
January 1st, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin CoinList President and Co-founder Andy Bromberg joined us to discuss the history of CoinList, the state of token sales, the regulatory environment around token sales and the potential of security tokens. Read More -
#264 Nick Sullivan: Cloudflare - The Internet's (De)centralized Security Blanket
December 4th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Nick Sullivan, Chief Cryptographer at Cloudflare. They recently launched an IPFS gateway and features which allow users to have strong guarantees as to the integrity of the content. Read More -
#263 Justin Drake: Ethereum's Audacious Roadmap to Build a True World Computer
November 27th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Ethereum Foundation Researcher Justin Drake joins us to discuss the roadmap to upgrade Ethereum and realize the scale and performance needed for a true world computer. Read More -
#269 Joseph Lubin: Consensys - The Distributed Incubator which Jumpstarted the Ethereum Ecosystem
January 8th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys. Since founding ConsenSys in 2014, the company has since grown to a distributed organization of over 1,000 people. Read More -
#261 Ben Sharafian & Stefan Thomas: Coil - A New Business Model for the Web
November 13th, 2018 by 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. Read More -
#262 Brian Behlendorf: Hyperledger - From Blockchain Hype to Production Networks
November 20th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger. With dozens of networks in production, and backed by companies like IBM, Hyperleger is the most widely used blockchain technology for permissioned networks. 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 -
#230 Loong Wang & Taiyang Zhang: Republic Protocol - A Decentralized & Trustless Crypto Dark Pool
April 11th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Taiyang Zhang and Loong Wang, who are respectively CEO and CTO of Republic Protocol. Republic operates as a decentralized dark pool for cryptocurrency trading pairs such as Ether, ERC20 tokens, and Bitcoin. Buy and sell orders remain confidential in a hidden order book until matched without any of the parties having access to the underlying details. Trades are settled using cross-chain atomic swaps without the intervention of a trusted third party. 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 -
#231 Ajay Prakash & Gavin Brennen: Qubit Protocol - Quantum Computing & The Coming Threat to Crypto
April 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Ajay Prakash and Gavin Brennen, founders of the Qubit Protocol, a decentralized blockchain-enabled governance protocol that is meant to select and fund the best startups in the quantum world. We discuss a recent paper which describes the primary threats that quantum computing poses on Bitcoin. 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 -
#237 Matan Field: DAOstack - An Operating System for Collective Intelligence
May 31st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Matan Field, CEO of DAOstack, a new platform that aims to become the operating system for collective intelligence. DAOstack is building a toolset to allow decentralized governance and building self-organizing collectives at scale. Read More
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