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#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#260 : Devcon4 Recap - From HODL to BUIDL
November 6th, 2018 by 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 -
#259 Gavin Wood: Substrate, Polkadot and the Case for On-Chain Governance
October 31st, 2018 by 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. Read More -
#258 Monica Quaintance: Kadena - Public and Permissioned Blockchains that Scale
October 23rd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Monica Quaintance, Head of Engineering and Adoption at Kadena. The company is building a scalable platform and simplified smart contract language designed for business. 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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#232 Karl Floersch: Plasma Cash and the Ethereum Roadmap
April 24th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Ethereum Researcher Karl Floersch joined us to discuss Plasma Cash and the wider Ethereum roadmap. 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 -
#233 Humayun Sheikh & Toby Simpson: Fetch.ai - an intelligent learning blockchain network
May 2nd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Humayun Sheikh and Toby Simpson, founders of the Fetch.ai project. This ambitious project seeks to create a self-learning blockchain network that fosters economic activity/combinations between off-chain AI agents. The fetch blockchain network will allow an AI agent, such as a delivery robot, to autonomously discover economic partners that would find its services and data valuable. 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
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